Meiji
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Across the old Tara road from its shop, the Nakashima Sake Brewery Storehouse in Kashima, Saga: three joined Meiji storehouses, its south doorway facing the street.
The late-Meiji Nakashima Sake Brewery West Storehouse in Kashima, Saga: a square, 2-storey plastered sake store with a brick-faced west wall, seen from the river.
The Nakano Family Residence Stone Wall in Tara, Saga: 97 metres of cut stone laid in two courses around 1909, running from the gateposts along frontage and garden.
The late-Meiji Nakano Family Residence Upper Water Intake in Tara, Saga: a brick cistern 6 metres deep in a hillside bank, the main store of spring water.
The late-Meiji Nakano Family Residence Lower Water Intake in Tara, Saga: a small, well-kept brick cistern in a hillside bank, repeating the upper intake's design.
The 1909 Nakano Family Residence Main House in Tara, Saga: three wings, a carved formal entrance and a waist-high alcove for chair seating, where Nakano Maki taught.
The Nakano Family Residence Gateposts in Tara, Saga: two tuff pillars of about 1909, 3.1 metres high, with chamfered corners and moulded coping stones.
A plain but solid late Meiji storehouse on the north edge of the Maeda estate in Imari, built as a back-yard store, with part of its lean-to set aside for tools.
A small late Meiji timber shed of 30 square meters on the Maeda estate in Imari, built for firewood beside the North Storehouse; its interior was later converted.
The largest storehouse of the Maeda estate in Imari, a late Meiji kura of 139 square meters facing the street beside the thatched main house, with a broad work area.
A 1904 single-storey rice mill at Yano Sake Brewery in Kashima, Saga, now the Tatsumi no Kura gallery, with a raised roof vent and an open timber roof frame inside.
A 1904 two-storey brewer's house in Kashima, Saga, turning a hip-and-gable end to the old Tara road, with a tiled canopy, bay window and white plaster upper floor.
The largest of seven listed buildings at Yano Sake Brewery in Kashima, Saga: a 1906 storehouse 14 ken long, extended after 1945, with an iron-clad south gable.