Meiji
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In Ome, Tokyo, the main house of Sōshidō is a Meiji silk-farm dwelling that the novelist Yoshikawa Eiji redesigned himself around 1948, writing beside its garden.
In Ome, Tokyo, the Western annex of Sōshidō held Yoshikawa Eiji's study. Built in late Meiji, it gathers materials from across Japan, from Seto tile to Ōya stone.
Kyoshoji Temple Guest Hall in Ikenohata, Tokyo, is a 1903 two-storey timber building whose wide east corridor was placed to command the view over Shinobazu Pond.
International Christian University Taizanso Kofukyo, a thatched 1925 tea house built around Matsuura Takeshiro's One-Mat Room of donated temple timber, in Mitaka.
The Shimoda Residence Bunko-gura in Nishitokyo, Tokyo, is a small Meiji-era earthen storehouse kept by a family of hereditary village headmen and registered in 2019.
Megumiso on the Shirayuri University campus in Chofu, Tokyo, is an early Meiji headman's farmhouse moved from Shuzenji in Izu, a large house now rare in Izu.
A square two-story clay storehouse of about 1875 in Nishitokyo with a separate roof, a Showa-era washed-stone base and black-plastered doors; registered 2018.
A Meiji-era yakuimon gate with a copper gable roof, paired board doors and wing walls, 2.7 m wide, fronting a Nishitokyo farmstead; a registered cultural property.
An 1875 two-story clay storehouse in Nishitokyo with a separate gabled roof, iron cladding added after the 1923 quake and carved window brackets; registered 2018.
In Yanaka, Taito City, this late-Meiji timber shop became a signboard building. Registered in 2023, it still bakes rice crackers over a sunken charcoal kiln.
Built in 1903, this small brick observatory has an octagonal ground floor, a circular upper floor and a rotating dome that once held an equatorial telescope.
Built in 1903, this single-story brick observatory has an octagonal plan and a pyramidal roof, and once held a meridian instrument for keeping precise time.
Built in 1909 as a fisheries training ship, Unyo Maru is the oldest surviving steel vessel made in Japan. Registered in 1998, her upper hull stands ashore in Tokyo.
The 1912 main gate and guardhouses of the University of Tokyo, designed by Ito Chuta, blending a traditional crossbeam gate with Western technique, registered in 1998.
Homeikan Honkan in Hongo, Tokyo, is a timber inn of the late 1890s registered in 2000. Built as a student boarding house, its rooms are named for their timber.
The Maki Family Residence Japanese Wing in Chofu, Tokyo, a single-storey house joined to its Western twin by a covered corridor, was registered in 2000.
The Maki Family Western-Style Residence in Chofu, Tokyo, built about 1910 at Shirokane for a navy vice admiral and moved here in 1937, was registered in 2000.
An 1895 tile-roofed storehouse in Higashikurume with a front room and a small tea room, heavy plaster shutters upstairs and a rustic lattice window below.
A late Meiji reception wing in Higashikurume, moved here in the Taisho era, with a tatami guest room, a Western-style room and a transom carved by Shimamura Shunpyo.
An 1881 zelkova gate in Higashikurume, 2.6 m wide, with a copper gable roof on a vase-shaped strut, board fences and a wicket door, visible from the road.