Taishō

A Taisho sukiya-style room built hard against a storehouse wall in Inuyama, with an eight-mat room and a slatted moon-viewing deck projecting on its north side.

A brick downdraft kiln of 1921 and the black timber shed built around it in Tokoname, Aichi. Registered in 1997, and visitors walk into the firing chamber itself.

A brick chimney of 1921 rising 21 meters over Tokoname, Aichi, tapering from a 2.2-meter square base. Built to vent a drainpipe kiln, it was registered in 1997.

The Kamiya Family Residence Waiting Arbor in Nagoya is a 1923 tea garden bench of 1.3 square metres, with a half-moon window cut only on the principal guest's side.

The Kamiya Family Residence Carpenter's Room and Inner Japanese Room in Anjo, Aichi, is a Taisho workshop with a tall interior and an unusual beam assembly.

The Kamiya Family Treasure House in Anjo, Aichi, is a Taisho two-storey kura raised on three courses of granite, with three drip courses across its walls.

The Kamiya Family Residence Miso Storehouse and Library in Anjo, Aichi, is a Taisho building whose ground floor holds a miso store, a store and a library.

Built in 1923 within the grounds of Kankyo Shuzo, a historic mirin brewery in Kanie, Aichi, this two-story wooden residence blends a refined shoin-style interior with a second-floor Western-style room. Registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in 2005, it embodies the architectural transition of the Taisho era.

Completed in 1923 alongside the family residence, the Kankyo Mirin Residence Earthen Storehouse in Kanie, Aichi Prefecture is a two-story dozō registered as a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan in 2005. Located within the working compound of Kankyō Shuzō — a mirin and sake brewery founded in 1862 — it features striking black-plaster walls and an unusual direct connection to the main residence, embodying the riverside heritage of one of Japan's longest-running fermentation enterprises.

A storehouse built around 1924 for a town office in Aichi, hiding reinforced concrete walls under a traditional plastered look, now the local museum's collection store.

A 1924 town council hall in Aichi, registered as a cultural property in 2006. Its tall assembly chamber, coffered ceiling and public gallery survive as a free museum.

A 1926 martial arts hall in Okazaki, Aichi, built in reinforced concrete after the 1923 quake. Secession detailing outside, a hybrid truss spanning the floor within.

A 1924 reinforced concrete martial arts hall on a working high school campus in Handa, Aichi. The oldest of its kind in the prefecture, restored in 2018.

The Back Room of the Former Isobe Family Residence stands beyond an inner courtyard in Inuyama, Aichi. A Taisho parlor with low eaves, registered in 2005.

Built in 1925 for eastern Mikawa's first private bank, this concrete landmark in Shinshiro is now the Horaikan cafe and a Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

A 1920 timber farmhouse beside the moat of fortified Honsho-ji temple in Anjo, its raised altar room and sermon-ready plan earning national registration in 2024.

Behind a Taisho mansion on Nagoya's Cultural Path stands the storehouse of actress Kawakami Sadayakko's former home, a registered reinforced-concrete kura.

A Taisho mansion built for actress Kawakami Sadayakko, restored on Nagoya's Cultural Path with stained glass and period rooms that recall her remarkable life.

A townhouse of 1923 at the eastern edge of the Inuyama castle town in Aichi. Nine rooms fill its upper floor, which began as a low half storey called banko-nikai.

A 1918 reinforced concrete arch over the Tsuge River in Shinshiro City, Aichi. Its 30.3 metre span was then Japan's longest, and lattice columns carry the deck.