Meiji
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A mid-Meiji house in Yokote's old samurai quarter, set round a courtyard, with a karahafu entrance, timber reception rooms and a Western parlor. Registered in 2024.
An earthen storehouse of about 1905 that held the Katano family papers in Yokote, Akita, with thick white plaster walls, a raised plaster band and a separate roof.
An 1889 storehouse for making miso on the Katano estate in Yokote, Akita, with a stone-paved brewing floor, a storage loft and a low workroom annex. Registered 2024.
A two-story brick storehouse of 1905 joined to the Katano main house in Yokote, Akita; inside, its posts and beams glow with clear lacquer. Registered in 2024.
The Former Taisenso in Ugo, Akita, a late Meiji garden pavilion facing the Nishimonai River, opens both floors to the view through glazed doors and verandas.
A small Meiji-era earthen storehouse in Masuda, Akita, with a three-step kakego-nuri fire door hung off-centre. Registered in 2009 for its place in the townscape.
Built in 1908, the north rice storehouse is the largest of the former Nara estate's seven registered annexes, its roof laid continuous with the south store.
Built in 1881 as a resting place for Emperor Meiji's tour of the Ōu region, the Kitano rest house was later moved to the Nara estate, a belvedere rising from its roof.
Built in 1890, the zashiki storehouse at the former Nara estate carries an eight-mat reception room upstairs, serving both storage and hospitality at once.
Built in 1895 and joined to the main house until a 1966 restoration severed it, this wooden wing of the Nara estate holds a four-mat tea room on its upper floor.
Raised in 1874, the miso storehouse is the oldest of the former Nara estate's seven registered annexes, with a copper maneki roof and curved rising beams above.
Built in 1893, the south rice storehouse shares a continuous roof with the north store, the earlier of the paired buildings that held the Nara family's rice.
Built in 1900 for one of Akita's three great landlord families, this registered house answers deep snow with a wide earth-floored passage lit from high windows.
Completed in 1869 and wrapped inside an outer sheath building, this 16.4-metre storehouse is an uchigura, the interior storehouse form of southern Akita.
A vast thatched Soto Zen hall at Yashima in Yurihonjo, rebuilt in 1880 after fire took the temple in the Boshin War. A ridge tag names carpenter Sasaki Mitsunobu.
The Workshop at Kunibanzai Shuzo, Araya, Akita, is a late-Meiji L-shaped timber hall linking the brewing rooms and main house: kettles south, pressing north.
Built in 1908 and eighteen ken long, this is the oldest and longest fermentation storehouse at Kunibanzai Shuzo, its entrance a showcase of layered lime plasterwork.
This 1908 storehouse behind the Main House, the only two-storey vault at Kunibanzai Shuzo, began as a document store and now cultivates the brewery's yeast starter.
The brewery's rice store of about 1902 in Yurihonjo, Akita, singled out for the carved lintel over its earthen doors and now converted into a gallery.
Built around 1902 in Ishiwaki, Yurihonjo, this wooden merchant house sets Western detailing on its upper storey above a deep street eave. Registered in 1998.