Meiji
Wakayama · 明治Browse Wakayama’s cultural heritage from the Meiji period (1868 – 1912). Filter by type and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.
Discover Misoya Bekkan Main House, a registered tangible cultural property in Hashimoto, Wakayama. Built in 1884 along the historic Koya-kaido pilgrimage road to Mount Koya, this elegant Meiji-era merchant townhouse preserves the atmosphere of a thriving post town.
A roadside wall of about 1906 of greenish Wakayama blue stone laid as random rubble, over 18 metres long and about 1.8 metres high, finished with a shaped coping.
A small armed-bracket gate of about 1906, barely a metre wide, leading from the living quarters to the reception garden under a gabled roof of Wakayama round tiles.
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.
A merchant house of 1903 on Wakaura Meiko-dori, Wakayama City: convex tiled roof, projecting lattice screens, black lime-plaster upper storey. Registered 2007.
A plastered storehouse of about 1905 behind the Wada merchant house in Wakayama City, its lime walls skirted with boarding against Wakaura salt air. Registered 2007.
A wall of about 1905 running 46 metres along a Wakayama City street, stacking local blue-grey schist with roof tiles and earth in varied courses. Registered 2007.