Meiji
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The 1883 main hall of Ariso Sho Hachimangu Shrine in Takaoka: a hip-and-gable roof with chidori-hafu front and back, carved brackets, and chigi on the copper ridge.
Built in 1872 on a raised stone wall at Ichihara Shrine in Namerikawa, this small all-zelkova main hall has a karahafu porch and side panels by Inami carvers.
The Inamiya altar shop in Takaoka, Toyama, a small timber shop of 1905, has a distinctive front with a large arched window framed in cast-iron scrollwork.
The shop storehouse of the Ozawa family in Namerikawa, Toyama, a black-plastered late Meiji store of kimono merchants, has local snow-splitting tiles on its ridge.
The main house of the Kanasaku Family Residence in Takaoka, built in 1893, is a two-storey townhouse with a two-row plan and a thick-board eave across its front.
The East Storehouse of the Kanasaku Family Residence in Takaoka, built in 1895, faces the main house across a garden, its door set in a torii-waku and black plaster
A carved late-Meiji gate at Kanseiji in Takaoka, Toyama, three bays wide with one central opening and a coffered ceiling. Tradition ties it to Zuiryuji.
Built in 1906 at Kanseiji in Takaoka, Toyama, this small two-storey annex lodged the teachers of an early seminary for Soto Zen nuns. Two eight-mat rooms per floor.
An early Meiji merchant house on the old Hokuriku Highway in Namerikawa, Toyama, rebuilt after the fire of 1866. Registered in 2000, it keeps its shop counter.
A late-Meiji workshop in Toyama, 92 m², where the Uchiyama servants worked, with a store for snow-screen materials and stepped side rooms; registered in 1998.
A pavilion-like well house of the late Meiji era in Toyama, 12 m², with three posts at each corner and capitals carved like bearing blocks; registered in 1998.
A long single-storey wooden wing of the late Meiji era in Toyama for a rickshaw, its pullers and charcoal, screening the work yard from the garden; registered 1998.
A small, plain wooden munamon gate of the late Meiji era in Toyama, leading to fields to the east and doubling as an accent in the garden; registered in 1998.
A study of 1879 in Toyama turned into a tea room in the late Meiji era, attached to the storehouse, with unusually wide openings and coloured walls; registered 1998.
A 2-storey earthen storehouse of the late Meiji era in Toyama, 184 m², divided into four stores for rice, bedding and miso; registered as heritage in 1998.
A late-Meiji chicken house in Toyama, 32 m², raised on a stone footing with plastered walls, lavish treatment for poultry with few parallels; registered in 1998.
A plain wooden munamon gate of the late Meiji era in Toyama, between the chicken coop and storehouse, once leading to orchards and fields; registered in 1998.
A mid-Meiji stone gate in Toyama: a stone post-and-lintel opening with a wooden door, in a wall of natural and cut stone dividing the gardens; registered in 1998.
A single-storey earthen store of the mid-Meiji era in Toyama, 40 m², on a stone footing with two-tone plaster and a separate okiyane roof; registered in 1998.
An early Meiji drug wholesaler's house in Toyama, 437 m², with a street-front shop lined by a wall of medicine drawers and rooms of fine timber, registered 1998.