Meiji
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The Ninomiya Family Residence Middle Gate and Wall in Seiro, Niigata, is a late-Meiji gate and 15-metre board fence dividing the estate and recalling a lost hall.
The Ninomiya Family Residence No. 2 Rice Storehouse in Seiro, Niigata, is a 1902 rice store 12 bays long, pairing a raised floor with a Western king post truss roof.
The Ninomiya Family Residence Storehouse No. 2 in Seiro, Niigata, is a mid-Meiji two-storey storehouse moved intact in 1915, with namako-kabe and stepped doors.
The Ninomiya Family Residence Miso Storehouse and Household Rice Storehouse in Seiro, Niigata, is an 1893 two-room store whose south eave runs into the workshop's.
The Ninomiya Family Residence Storehouse No. 4 in Seiro, Niigata, is a 1908 two-storey storehouse with namako-kabe walls and three windows in its east gable.
Hara Family Residence Back Storehouse, built around 1906 in Niigata City, pairs with its twin, sharing plaster walls and Scottish steel door frames. Registered 2016.
Hara Family Residence Rice Storehouse in Niigata City, built in 1910, runs 14 metres and mixes wagoya framing with a king post truss. Registered in 2016.
Hara Family Residence Main House in Niigata City, built in 1902, pairs fine timber rooms with a glazed earthen passage and iron eave posts. Registered in 2016.
Hara Family Residence Tea Room, built in 1906 and moved within the grounds in 1976, joins two tea rooms under copper gables and a round-posted eave. Registered 2016.
Hara Family Residence Tool Storehouse, a timber store of 1902 in Niigata City, borrows the plaster band and separate roof of earthen storehouses. Registered in 2016.
Hara Family Residence Storehouse, a two-storey earthen store of about 1906 in Niigata City, has brick lower walls and Scottish steel door framing. Registered 2016.
Hara Family Residence Buddhist Altar Room Wing, built in 1902 in Niigata City, frames its altar with an arched beam, brackets and coffered ceiling. Registered 2016.
Hara Family Residence Miso Storehouse, built in 1902 in Niigata City, carries its roof on one long ridge timber with rafter beams and exposed posts. Registered 2016.
Hara Family Residence Gate in Niigata City is a single-bay yakuimon of about 1902, 2.7 metres wide, plain but for doors made from single boards. Registered 2016.
The Hirata Dairoku Family Residence Chimney in Sekikawa, Niigata, is a late-Meiji brick stack in English bond, the last trace of the shed where rice was steamed.
The Hirata Dairoku Family Residence Sake Starter Storehouse in Sekikawa, Niigata, is a narrow board-clad clay store where the family grew its sake yeast starter.
A late-Meiji earthen storehouse on a Sado doctor's estate, its plaster walls boarded against the weather, whose front bay links the rice and miso storehouses.
An early-Meiji timber storehouse on a Sado doctor's estate, a plastered miso store below and a tokonoma room above, joined to the thatched main house by a bay.
The largest store on a Sado doctor's estate: an early-Meiji earthen rice store wrapped in a timber bay under one gabled roof, said to come from a shipping merchant.
A 1909 reception wing west of the Hosaka main house in Joetsu: a hipped-roof single storey with two linked rooms, an alcove and a deep-eaved earthen veranda.