Meiji
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The Materials Related to Okubo Toshimichi, 1650 items kept at the Reimeikan in Kagoshima, designated in 2004, include his earliest letter and one to Saigo.
Completed in 1912 in Akita City, this brick landmark pairs a Renaissance exterior by Yamaguchi Naoaki with a Baroque banking hall. Designated in 1994; 310 yen.
Built in 1882 for German engineers at the state-run Ani mine in Akita, this brick house with a wraparound veranda predates the Rokumeikan. Admission free.
The Akagawa storehouse in Omorimachi, Yokote, Akita, a two-storey clay store of 1885 later faced in brick, carries brick dentils and a brick-framed doorway.
An L-shaped thatched farmhouse of 1900 to 1903, moved from Tazawako in 1989 and rebuilt at Akita's agricultural science museum. Stable indoors, and free entry.
A middle-Meiji earthen-walled brewhouse at Aramasa Sake Brewery in Akita, the core of the site, with black plaster bands and a chevron mark on its gable wall.
A late-Meiji husked-rice granary built for the Kannonko relief society, now at Aramasa Sake Brewery in Akita: 25 m long, with a canopied door in its west gable.
Two late-Meiji storehouses of the Kannonko relief society, a husked-rice granary and a rice store, joined end to end for 36 m at Aramasa Sake Brewery in Akita.
A middle-Meiji brewhouse at Aramasa Sake Brewery in Akita, linked by the government to the origin of Kyokai No. 6, the oldest sake yeast strain still in use today.
The largest brewhouse at Aramasa Sake Brewery in Akita, 21.6 m long, with a regional doubled-beam roof frame. Its listed date conflicts: Meiji 20 (1887) or 1945.
Isamigoma Sake Brewery Head Office West Storehouse in Masuda, Yokote, is a late-Meiji earthen storehouse whose three tiers of beams make a tall space. Listed 2002.
Isamigoma Sake Brewery Head Office South Storehouse in Masuda, Yokote, is an 1886 earthen storehouse built as a guest room, with adzed cambered beams. Listed 2002.
Built in 1883, the oldest of five registered storehouses at a Yuzawa miso and soy sauce brewery: a document store whose brick-faced lower walls add a Western touch.
Built in 1897, the oldest of four brewing storehouses on the road at Ishimago Honten in Yuzawa: the pressing house, with a Japanese roof frame unlike No. 2.
The northernmost brewing storehouse at Ishimago Honten in Yuzawa, built in 1910 with a Western truss. After the No. 1 fell in 2011, it became the soy sauce house.
Built in 1900 at Ishimago Honten in Yuzawa, this brewing storehouse is split into three sections, one a stone-walled koji room, under a Japanese roof frame.
Hidden in a timber saya behind a Yokote farmhouse, the Kishi Family Residence Inner Storehouse has a four-step plastered earthen door and lacquered trim.
The Kishi Family Residence Main House in Yokote is a large late-Meiji farmhouse with a hipped thatch roof under steel, triple-stacked eave beams and high windows.
Angled off a Yokote farmhouse, the Kishi Family Residence Outer Storehouse is a late-Meiji earthen farm store in a board saya, with a bold stacked-beam roof frame.
The gate and wall of the Katano estate in Yokote's old samurai quarter: a carved Meiji yakuimon and a 126 m wall of black boards and white plaster. Registered 2024.