Meiji
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A mid-Meiji storehouse parlor on the old Koshu Kaido in Katsunuma, with two formal tatami rooms and stacked hinged-door windows on its street gable. Registered 2018.
A late Meiji tea-garden privy by the Oshian teahouse in Kofu, with a marble floor, a blue-and-white porcelain urinal and fanned rafters. Registered in 2025.
The Enshido at Minobusan Kuonji is a small 1876 hall above the main buildings, housing a stone memorial tower, with fans and celestial maidens carved on its porch.
The Kanromon at Minobusan Kuonji is an 1868 koraimon gate, moved in 1941, whose main posts carry the ridge directly, with a gatekeeper's lodge at the back.
The Former Shoin at Minobusan Kuonji is an 1876 reception building whose heavy tiled exterior hides high ceilings and openwork carved transoms between its rooms.
The Goshinkotsudo at Minobusan Kuonji is a white plastered octagon of 1881 that keeps relics of Nichiren around a golden stupa in a gilded, vividly painted interior.
The Goshinkotsudo Worship Hall at Minobusan Kuonji, built in 1881 for Nichiren's 600th memorial, has Zen-style brackets, deep fanned eaves and a cusped porch gable.
The Sanmon at Minobusan Kuonji is a two-storey Zen-style gate of 1907 with fanned rafters above and a plaque by the 79th abbot, at the foot of the Bodaitei steps.
The Somon Teahouse at Minobusan Kuonji is a plain timber building of 1894 inside the outer gate that once received pilgrims, a rare tea station at a Nichiren temple.
The Soshido at Minobusan Kuonji is the 1881 hall enshrining Nichiren, a T-shaped building with a carved inner sanctuary where the okaicho reveals his image.
An 1879 canopy over the incense burner before the Soshido at Minobusan Kuonji, built in the Zen style with lion-head beam ends and a carved dragon on the ceiling.
The Great Guest Hall at Minobusan Kuonji is a long 1886 reception hall with a grand curved-gable entrance and 5 tatami rooms, including a raised 20-mat chamber.
The Great Bell Tower at Minobusan Kuonji is an open-sided tower of 1882 before the founder's hall, with thick round columns, deep bracketed eaves and carving.
The Hokido at Minobusan Kuonji is an 1883 hall, 10 bays by 9, whose earth-floored front room shows a huge central pillar and beams cut from giant trees.
The Muramatsu Family Residence Privy in Minami Alps, Yamanashi, is an early Meiji outhouse built with care for the brewery hands or shop customers of the family.
The Muramatsu Family Residence Merchant Storehouse in Minami Alps, Yamanashi, is an 1873 shop storehouse on the old road, with goods, shop and living room in one.
The Muramatsu Family Residence Archive Storehouse in Minami Alps, Yamanashi, is an early Meiji storehouse linked to the main house and later used by a retiree.
Dry-stone erosion control dam of 1910 to 1918 in Fuefuki, Yamanashi, built after the floods of 1907, 66 metres long and still protecting the village below.
Granite wine fermentation tanks of 1901 at the Lumiere winery in Fuefuki, Yamanashi, ten in a row and said to be Japan's first European-style; still used today.