Meiji
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A Meiji-period hydroelectric installation in Yamanashi Prefecture. Its own structures there are recorded under two quite different owner names even now.
A Meiji-period reception room in Fujikawa, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. Its record gives two storeys and one; built to match the stores, it now serves as a canteen.
A Southern Song painting on one scroll at Kuonji in Yamanashi, recorded as having once formed a single set with two other scrolls held elsewhere today.
The Former Mutsuzawa School in Kofu, an 1875 timber schoolhouse with a central tower in the Fujimura style, stands by Kofu Station as the Fujimura Memorial Museum.
Timber chapel of 1897 in Ichikawamisato, Yamanashi, built by a Canadian Methodist mission church in white-plastered kura style; still used for worship today.
Hot-spring building in Yamanashi City, a communal bath of about 1875 with an entrance wing of about 1942, keeping its original half-sunken spring bath.
The Sakurabayashi Family Residence Inner Room in Kofu is a 1912 two-storey reception wing with three rooms on each floor, kumiko lattice transoms and west alcoves.
The Sakurabayashi Family Residence Nagayamon Gate in Kofu is a 1905 gatehouse whose rooms held a rickshaw man and the doctor's clinic, with zelkova doors.
The Sakurabayashi Family Residence West Document Storehouse in Kofu is a c.1912 earthen storehouse with mortar walls, an artificial stone base and a king post truss.
The mid-Meiji home at the heart of the Sugiura doctors' estate in Showa, Yamanashi, with a curved-gable guest entrance, west veranda and airy upper floor. Now shut.
A long mid-Meiji earthen-walled storehouse, 10.9 by 3.6 meters, on the north edge of the Sugiura doctors' estate in Showa, Yamanashi. Both floors are open.
An L-shaped mid-Meiji barn in the corner of the Sugiura doctors' estate in Showa, Yamanashi, its clay walls lined with split logs like a rice store. Tools on show.
A mid-Meiji earthen-walled storehouse joined by corridor to the Sugiura doctors' main house in Showa, Yamanashi, with a 10-mat room and anteroom inside its walls.
The Tsuchiya Family Residence Rear Gate in Koshu, Yamanashi, is a plain early Meiji bracket-arm gate, 2.3 m wide, closing the north edge of a large farm estate.
The Tsuchiya Family Residence Koji Storehouse in Koshu, Yamanashi, is a small early Meiji clay store built for making koji, the starter for miso, soy sauce and sake.
The Tsuchiya Family Residence Rice Storehouse in Koshu, Yamanashi: an early Meiji clay store for tenants' rent rice that has made brandy since the Showa 30s.
The Tsuchiya Family Residence Zashiki Gate and Wall in Koshu, Yamanashi: an early Meiji gate and 34 m tiled earthen wall enclosing the main house garden.
The Tsuchiya Family Residence Main House in Koshu, Yamanashi, is an early Meiji farmhouse with two extra roof levels built for silkworms, registered in 2017.
The Tsuchiya Family Residence Bunko Storehouse in Koshu, Yamanashi: an early Meiji clay store linked to the main house, first for books and bedding, now for wine.
An 1880 storehouse parlor at the back of the Hagihara lot in Katsunuma, dated by ink inscription, with a 14-mat room and a rare-wood alcove post. Registered 2018.