Meiji
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A mid-Meiji garden gate and board fence in Chofu, Tokyo, dividing front yard from main garden. The gate is 1.5 m wide and the wall 8.5 m long. Registered 2014.
Ishikawa Sake Brewery Zatsugura in Fussa, Tokyo: a c.1898 former rice store on the street with a floating tiled roof, its upper floor a free brewing history museum.
Ishikawa Sake Brewery Shingura in Fussa, Tokyo: an 1898 two-storey earthen storehouse 35 meters long on the street, with a floating metal roof, now used to age sake.
Ishikawa Sake Brewery Hongura in Fussa, Tokyo: an 1880 two-storey earthen brewing hall, 32 by 23 meters, gabled at one end and hipped at the other, still brewing.
Ishikawa Sake Brewery Mukaigura in Fussa, Tokyo: an earthen storehouse built as a coal shed in 1896, with torii-shaped window frames, now housing a beer brewery.
A small dozo tool store beside the Isego rice shop in Sengoku, Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, registered in 2003. Mortar render scored into stone-like joints gives it weight.
An early Meiji rice shop in Sengoku, Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, registered in 2003. Low dashigeta eaves and lattice windows survive, and the family still sells rice here.
A 1.5-metre kitchen gate of about 1907 with sliding board doors, a lamp hung between lintel and ridge beam, and moulded brackets facing a Ueno back lane.
A two-metre bracket gate of about 1907, gabled and tiled, with a lattice window above the opening, chamfered timbers, and a black-plastered wing wall in Ueno.
This 25-square-metre kura of about 1907 looks like stone but is brick over a timber frame, rendered and scored with false joints. Its ground floor held the altar.
Built in 1907 as a Nihonbashi cloth wholesaler's retirement house, this timber home in Ueno Sakuragi appeared in a Meiji plan book and was registered in 2005.
A 1909 wooden library designed by Ministry of Education architect Kuru Masamichi for Gakushuin's Mejiro campus. Registered in 2009, the L-shaped building is rare for its American Stick Style cladding and brackets carved with the school's sakura crest.
The main house of the Kawai Residence in Tama City, Tokyo, is an 1885 thatched farmhouse carrying two tiers of silkworm rooms inside its high roof space.
Kan'eiji's main hall was moved from Kita-in in Kawagoe in 1879, after the first burned in the 1868 Battle of Ueno. A seven-bay Tendai hall, it holds a hidden Yakushi.
Said to mark the seventeenth memorial of his first wife, this 1898 hall belongs to Shibusawa Eiichi, father of Japanese capitalism. Fine carvings fill its interior.
A 1902 farmhouse in Fussa, Tokyo, with a six-room plan, a corridor on three sides and an indoor bath. See the wedding room's alcove and a closet opening three ways.
A two-story earthen storehouse of 1904 in Fussa, Tokyo, with a separate metal roof and a battened wainscot. It held wedding trays, bowls and New Year water buckets.
A 1911 storehouse in Fussa, Tokyo, built by the main house's carpenter in the year the family opened the village post office. Its ground floor is a free gallery.
A timber kura of c.1884 in Higashiyamato, Tokyo, later rendered to mimic cut stone. Its oki-yane roof, iron fire doors, and the atelier Yoshioka Kenji never built.
A mid-Meiji farmhouse in Higashiyamato, Tokyo, that the painter Yoshioka Kenji reshaped over 46 years: a 35.5 cm pillar, kumiko transoms, an earth-floor atelier.