The 1896 Rikuu earthquake was the biggest inland event occurred in Tohoku district and caused extensive building damage to Akita and Iwate prefectures. The authors have been done literature surveys on this earthquake and reported in the preceding papers clarifying distributions of building damage, cause of human casualties, local governmental responses and so on. In this paper, we focus to individual building damage and effects of regional features on building construction are discussed through the reconnaissance reports and related papers. Typical examples are also cited from photos and illustrations appeared on those documents and discussed.
