Taishō
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An earthen-walled cotton warehouse of about 1914 in Okada, Chita, sharing a continuous covered forespace with its neighbour and lit only from the north.
A packing workshop joined to a two-storey workers' dormitory, built about 1914 in Okada, Chita, and the largest of the six registered structures on the site.
The 1914 head office of a cotton company in Okada, Chita, finished in costly black plaster, crowned with crest tiles and moved to its present site in 1945.
A gate range of about 1914 wrapping two sides of a cotton company's grounds in Okada, Chita, holding storage sheds, a dining room, a bathroom and a kitchen.
A timber boundary wall of about 1914 in Okada, Chita, just 6.2 metres long, its tiled ridge stepping down in three stages to follow the falling ground.
A cotton storehouse of about 1914 in Okada, Chita, with thick earthen walls, a deep covered forespace across the front and windows only on the upper south face.
Rebuilt in 1913 on the site of the Okoshi post station inn wrecked by the Nobi earthquake of 1891, this Ichinomiya house and its rear parlor were registered in 2002.
Built in 1914, the old office carries a tiled irimoya roof on a Western truss. It once faced the old road and keeps traces of its merchant counter inside.
A two-storey plastered building of 1914. Its ground floor takes the workshop form called a moro, where ceramics were boxed for shipment, a working storehouse.
The former Ryotei Kikusui in Ono, Shinshiro, Aichi, a late Taisho restaurant on an old post road, has bright tatami rooms and plaster reliefs of a footman.
The Kuno Family Residence (Aizankyo) Main House in Tokai, Aichi, is a 1925 suburban home designed by Nishimura Isaku, arched and slate-roofed, registered in 2024.
The Kuno Family Residence (Aizankyo) Garden Gate in Tokai, Aichi, is a late Taisho arch of concrete moulded to imitate timber, registered in March 2024.
The Kuno Family Residence (Aizankyo) Gateposts in Tokai, Aichi, are late Taisho piers faced with tilted river cobbles, known as the Gate of Philosophy.
The stone revetment of the Shuzui residence in Tokai, Aichi, built in the early Taisho period on Ise Bay, is a rare example of Hattori Chohichi's artificial stone.
A two-story earthen storehouse of the early Taisho era behind a sake merchant's house in Inuyama, with white plaster walls and black doors, registered in 2004.
A sake merchant's townhouse of 1913 on Honmachi Street in Inuyama, with a lattice front and a plastered upper story, registered as a cultural property in 2004.
A tea room of the early Taisho era in the back garden of a sake merchant's house in Inuyama, with polished log posts and lath windows, registered in 2004.
Chiryu Shrine's Taisho-era offering hall, registered in 2014, stands before the main hall in a rare Owari-style row of sanctuaries, near a pagoda rebuilt in 1509.
A tiny hall of 1918 at Tokuunji, Nishio, Aichi, on a base at the pond's edge, enshrining Benzaiten; its roof is hipped in front and gabled behind. Registered 2021.
Registered in 2014, this Nagoya tea building pairs a 4.5-mat tea room of 1914 with a later 10-mat room. A timber merchant designed it around rare and buried woods.