Meiji
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Shinshoji Temple Main Gate in Aira, Kagoshima, is an 1895 stone gateway, 3.1 meters wide, with chamfered 3.4-meter posts, curved capstones and 6-course wing walls.
Shinshoji Temple Side Gate in Aira, Kagoshima, is a small 1895 stone gate at the top of 9 steps: two monolithic 2.0-meter posts under a curved, roof-shaped lintel.
Shinshoji Temple Main Hall in Aira, Kagoshima, is a stone Buddhist hall raised in 1892, 16 by 18 meters, with a front porch, stone buttresses and quoin-like corners.
Sedome Catholic Church Priest's House on Amami Oshima: a two-storey hipped-roof timber house of about 1908 beside the church, part of the island's mission history.
Sedome Catholic Church Sanctuary on Amami Oshima, Kagoshima: a timber church of 1908 whose three-aisled interior with a raised nave keeps its original character.
A Meiji-period house in Kasari, Amami, Kagoshima, registered in 2007, preserving the traditional Amami plan of separate main and kitchen buildings with a hikimon frame.
An early Meiji stone wall in Chiran, Kagoshima, running 78 m around three sides of a homestead, 0.53 to 2.7 m high, with a recessed east entrance; registered 2007.
An early Meiji house in Chiran, Kagoshima, built as two offset blocks, the nakae and omote, under gabled and hipped roofs with plastered gables; registered 2007.
An early Meiji two-storey storehouse in Chiran, Kagoshima: two plastered units joined end to end on cut-stone footings, renovated mid-Showa and registered in 2007.
Built in 1904 in Kajiki, Aira, the Moriyama Family Residence Main House splits guest and family space, with Yakushima cedar transoms and iron nail covers.
Built in 1904 in Kajiki, Aira, the Moriyama Family Residence Storehouse has an unusually tall stone base and canopy brackets cast by the family. Tours by booking.
Built in 1897 on Nagata Point, Yakushima Lighthouse marked the sea route to Taiwan. The southernmost surviving Meiji-era brick lighthouse, it blends brick and granite.
Built in 1897 beside Yakushima Lighthouse, this 136-metre wall encloses its compound. Local granite carries three brick courses, finished as a coping against the coast.
A mid-Meiji house in Chiran, Kagoshima, registered in 2007. Its long ridge is hipped at one end and hip-and-gable at the other, with four room zones under one roof.
A mid-Meiji storehouse in Chiran, Kagoshima, registered in 2007. It stands where the farmstead meets the road, lime-plastered walls set on a base of dressed stone.
A mid-Meiji storehouse in Chiran, Kagoshima, registered in 2007. It stands south of its twin, ridge slightly lower, plaster carried to the eaves on the front alone.
A mid-Meiji stone boundary in Chiran, Kagoshima, registered in 2007. A gate 3.1 metres wide opens at one end, and dressed stone walling runs on for 77 metres.
Raised in 1906 to welcome home Russo-Japanese War veterans, this 4.7-meter stone arch at Aira in Kagoshima is one of very few permanent triumphal gates in Japan.
A thatched farmhouse of about 1877 in Chiran, Kagoshima, one of only three surviving Chiran-type futatsuya, which join living and kitchen blocks. Registered in 2007.
A two-story plastered storehouse of about 1875 in Chiran, Kagoshima, registered in 2007. Its cut-stone footing includes a single block running fully 3.8 meters.