Meiji
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A two-storey Meiji-era storehouse with a floating tiled roof, white plaster walls and a timber-clad base on a shrine family's homestead in Wakayama. Registered 2013.
On Okinoshima above the Kitan Strait, an 1872 stone lighthouse by British engineer Richard Henry Brunton. One of Japan's earliest Western-style beacons, still in service.
The 1887 main house of the Nakasuji branch family in Wasa, Wakayama: a 205 sq m single-storey home prized for deep beams and a cherry-wood veranda. Registered 1998.
A gatehouse of about 1887 facing the road on the Nakasuji estate in Wasa, Wakayama City, with a lower store attached; plaster and clapboard run unbroken.
An 1887 service building with toilet, bath and store north of the Nakasuji gatehouse in Wasa, Wakayama City, its roof set just below the store's. Registered 1998.
A south-facing early Meiji farmhouse in Nanayama, Kainan, once thatched and now tiled: a timber single-storey house with a doma and a four-room plan. Private home.
The Hashimoto Church Former Chapel in Wakayama, registered in 2005, is a Meiji farmhouse moved from Yoshino in 1900 whose earthen floor became the chapel.
The Hashimoto new drawing room in Gobo is a small two-story timber reception house, said to have been built for a bride's arrival around 1912. Registered 2020.
Hatsuzakura's later-Meiji igura adjoins its brewing hall, the two forming a long wall that preserves the streetscape of Katsuragi's once-thriving sake trade.
Hatsuzakura's early-Meiji shikomi-gura runs sixteen bays north to south, the oldest and largest of its halls and still the working heart of a brewing town.
In Susami, Wakayama, the Fukuda Family Residence Main Gate is a single-bay udegimon of about 1909, standing atop a castle-like stone wall. Now registered.
In Iwade, Wakayama, the mid-Meiji Fukuda Family Residence Earthen Wall runs about 41.5 m over precise stone footings with a washed-aggregate face. Now registered.
In Susami, Wakayama, the Fukuda Family Residence Barn of 1878 is the estate's oldest building, a part-two-story timber structure with lean-to eaves. Now registered.
In Susami, Wakayama, the Fukuda Family Residence Detached Room of 1903 is a six-mat guest room with a tokonoma, reached by a covered passage. Now registered.
Built in 1876 above the Kishigawa at Okinono in Kainan, Wakayama, Honenji Main Hall is a five-bay Jodo-shu hall registered in 2024 for its dragon carvings.
The Kamigura and detached room of the Misoya Annex in Hashimoto, Wakayama, from the mid-Meiji period, join a storehouse with shop-mark doors to a tatami room.
The main house of the Misoya Annex in Hashimoto, Wakayama, built in 1884 for a kimono shop on the Ise Kaido, has a curved roof and the look of a Kyoto townhouse.
A roadside wall of Wakayama blue-green schist built around 1906 at the Yamamoto estate in Kainan: random rubble, 18 meters long and 1.8 meters high, coping on top.
A small bracket gate of about 1906 at the Yamamoto estate in Kainan, Wakayama, roofed in rounded local tiles, with single-board doors and a black plaster side wall.
A late Meiji guest wing on the Kii-ji route below Shishigase Pass in Hidaka, Wakayama, with four rooms in ta-no-ji plan, tsuga columns and original glass screens.