Meiji
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Tanahashi Family Residence Main House in Arimatsu, Nagoya, was built in 1875 for the Oigeta Hattori shibori wholesalers. Ridge plaque, plastered front, 2009 listing.
Built in 1902 in an old Aichi cotton town, the pale-blue wooden Chita Okada Simple Post Office was Chita's first registered cultural property and still sells stamps.
The main hall of Chobo-ji in Nagoya is a registered hojo-style building rebuilt in 1894 after the Great Nobi Earthquake, at a Zen temple founded by the monk Muju.
Built in 1887, the saimonden and corridor of Chiryu Shrine in Aichi link its halls under one cypress-bark roof, a rare Owari-style layout registered in 2014.
The Ubagami-sha at Chiryu-jinja in Aichi is a vermilion Meiji-period auxiliary shrine to a mother goddess of childbirth, registered for its fine carving.
Chiryū-an, a Meiji-era tea house relocated to Chiryū Shrine in 1968, is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property prized for sukiya touches such as bark-edged posts.
The main hall of Tokuunji in Nishio, Aichi, built in 1883, 3 bays wide and 8 deep for a large outer sanctuary, its plain exterior fit for nenbutsu. Registered 2021.
Built in 1899 as the front gate of the Owari Tokugawa residence in Nagoya, the Tokugawa Garden Black Gate is a three-bay yakuimon of heavy zelkova, listed in 2014.
A stone draw well of about 1900 in Nagoya, the Tokugawa Garden Tsurube Well keeps its granite curb, adzed post, cedar-bark roof and cherry-blossom iron pulley.
Running 84 meters along the western edge of Tokugawaen in Nagoya, the Tokugawa Garden Wall changes finish as it goes, from plaster and clapboard to cedar bark.
Standing south of the black gate in Nagoya, the Tokugawa Garden Side Nagaya is a single-storey range of about 1900, 19.6 meters long, with barred windows.
Built in 1883 and registered in 2014, this Nagoya tea building sets upper, middle and lower rooms at stepped floor levels, with a shelter for a guest's attendants.
A Rinzai Zen main hall in Inuyama's castle town, rebuilt in 1896 after the Nobi earthquake. Its outer sanctuary omits the dividing columns, opening one wide space.
Two joined storehouses of 1876 behind the Tomita deputy's house in Okazaki, Aichi, black-boarded below and plastered above. Registered 2020; documents on view.
A Meiji-period storehouse on the old Tokaido in Arimatsu, Nagoya. Registered in 2008, it shows black lime plaster, a washed plinth and fire-sealing doors upstairs.
A 1910 reception house in Nakamura Park, Nagoya, built for Kato Kiyomasa's 300th anniversary, with a cusped-gable porch and fine tatami rooms. Registered property.
An early Meiji tea house in the taste of Omotesenke master Rokurokusai, moved to Nakamura Park in Nagoya in 1957, of simple and refined design. Registered property.
Nishikomaya Tamura Family Residence Main House, a late-Meiji brewer's townhouse on the old Tokaido in Toyohashi registered in 2014: six-room plan, lattice, eaves.
Nishikomaya Tamura Family Residence Storehouse, a late-Meiji earthen-walled vault behind a brewer's house in Toyohashi, registered in 2014: plaster front, boarding.
The Nogi Warehouse, an early Meiji brick powder magazine inside Nagoya Castle, was registered in 1997. In 1945 it sheltered 1,047 palace paintings from the air raid.