Meiji
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A 20-square-metre earthen storehouse of about 1902 in Yurihonjo, Akita, where vegetables were cured in sake lees left over from pressing at the brewery.
Built around 1902 in Yurihonjo, Akita, this storehouse stands beyond the garden on the working side of the property and still holds the brewery's sake tanks.
At 17 square metres this 1902 storehouse in Yurihonjo, Akita, is the smallest of the eleven, sheltered by a shed finished to imitate an earthen storehouse.
A two-storey earthen storehouse of about 1902 in Yurihonjo, Akita, built for ledgers and valuables, its gable boarded and hooded against wind-driven snow.
A small copper-roofed gate of about 1902 in Yurihonjo, Akita, with wicket doors in the samurai manner. It led guests to the reception rooms, not the shop.
A 2-storey earthen storehouse of 1900 in Maego, Yurihonjo, dated by its ridge-beam inscription: an archive below, a painted reception room above, later brick facing.
The main house of the Sasaki merchant family in Kameda, Akita, built in the mid-Meiji era, has a ridge thrust over the street and a long earth-floored passage.
The Sato no Ie Main House in Akita, a thatched chumon-style farmhouse of about 1884 that belonged to a village headman, was moved in 1987 and now hosts dining.
Shinmei Shrine Kuden is a gilded miniature shrine made in 1883 for the Main Hall of Yoshizawa Shinmei Shrine in Akita, with a folded roof and the Rokugo crest.
Shinmei Shrine Subsidiary Shrine Joint Hall in Yurihonjo, Akita, enshrines Kotohira and Akiba together, with a bracketed inner sanctum and an ink dragon dated 1852.
Shinmei Shrine Mikoshi Hall in Yurihonjo, Akita, is a plain 1908 gabled store for a portable shrine, with four panelled doors and batten-held weatherboard walls.
The 1897 north storehouse of Suzuki Sake Brewery in Daisen, Akita, once flanked the pressing room at the heart of brewing. Its roof rests on one curved beam.
The mid-Meiji office and main house of Suzuki Sake Brewery in Daisen, Akita, turns its gable to the old road with four tiers of beams; glass doors light its passage.
The 1896 document storehouse of Suzuki Sake Brewery in Daisen, Akita, has door and window frames in black plaster with trowelled motifs. Heirlooms shown on tours.
The 1899 front storehouse of Suzuki Sake Brewery in Daisen, Akita: a 19-metre brewing hall edged in black plaster, with a stepped kakegonuri door. How to visit.
The Great Buddha Hall of Chokokuji in Akata, Yurihonjo, Akita, built in 1893, houses an Eleven-Headed Kannon about 8 metres tall, known as the Great Buddha of Akata.
The honjin of Tsurunoyu Onsen in Senboku, Akita, is an early Meiji thatched building 43 metres long whose guest rooms keep the air of an old mountain spa.
The only Naba Kamiten building with a firm date, 1897, and the largest storehouse at 157 square metres. Black plaster outside, a boat bracket at the ridge.
Rebuilt after Akita's 1886 Tawaraya Fire and registered in 2014, this 463-square-metre townhouse still trades as a washi paper shop. Low Edo roof, exposed beams.
An earthen archive storehouse of 106 square metres, its roof run into the main house so the two read as one. Middle Meiji fabric, moved here in 1908. Closed.