Meiji
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An 1882 three-story plastered storehouse in Nagaoka's brewing quarter, its Taisho top floor framed with a Western king-post truss. Registered in 2013, still in use.
A middle Meiji earthen storehouse in Nagaoka's Settaya brewing quarter, registered in 2013. Black plaster picks out its cornice, and miso still ferments inside.
A plain gabled hut of 1885 northeast of the Ito family's main house in Somi, Niigata, built over a laundry well and now a café with the old well inside.
A long two-storey storehouse of 1887 on the Ito estate in Somi, Niigata, joined to the main house by corridors, with white plaster walls and upper-floor doors.
The 1889 reception hall of the Ito estate in Somi, Niigata: 287 square metres of tatami rooms with few posts, opening onto a pond garden famed for autumn colour.
An 18-metre work shed of 1883 north of the Ito family's main house in Somi, Niigata, built to saw timber for the mansion and now used as the museum shop.
A triangular study and tea room designed by the head of the Ito family in 1891 at Somi, Niigata, its plan, mats and timbers shaped as triangles and rhombuses.
A former rice store on the Ito estate in Somi, Niigata, with tiled walls and a trussed roof, now the museum's gallery for Chinese, Korean and Japanese art.
The 1887 main house of the Ito landlords at Somi, Niigata: 636 square metres over two storeys, with seven-tier roof beams and a 30-metre cedar purlin, open to view.
A two-storey sukiya-style reception wing of 1889 at the back of the Ito estate in Somi, Niigata, with slender timbers and sand-plaster walls unlike the main house.
The carpenters' workshop of 1883 at the northern edge of the Ito estate in Somi, Niigata: a plain tall-posted shed where the mansion's builders worked.
A one-bay gate and 20-metre wall of 1889 at the Ito estate in Somi, Niigata, dividing the great hall's forecourt from the garden under a curved copper roof.
A two-storey storehouse gate of 1887, about 24 metres long, forming the east front of the Ito landlords' estate at Somi, Niigata, alongside the Gate Storehouse.
A villa of about 1895 in central Niigata, built with oil money and later owned by the Ito landlords: plain weatherboard outside, sukiya rooms facing a garden inside.
A 211-metre timber wall of about 1887 enclosing the Ito landlords' estate at Somi, Niigata, with battened boarding, slatted windows and a surviving moat outside.
A single-storey store of 1885 on the Ito estate in Somi, Niigata, built between two workshops to hold the carpenters' tools while the mansion was under construction.
A 28-metre miso store of 1887 at the Ito estate in Somi, Niigata, whose tall core and twin lean-tos once sheltered dozens of barrels and later a dining hall.
A two-storey gate and storehouse of 1887 at the Ito estate in Somi, Niigata: a three-bay gateway with inward doors, lacquerware stored within, now the ticket office.
A small bathhouse of 1889 beside the great hall of the Ito estate in Somi, Niigata, with a tatami rest room, woven ajiro panels and bamboo window lattices.
The bell tower of Honkoji in Sado, Niigata, an open one-bay belfry of 1886 moved here in 1973, stands on a base with inward-leaning posts and double rafters.