Taishō

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.

Tucked away in the mountain town of Shinshiro in eastern Aichi, the Former Ryotei Kikusui is a small wooden building from the late Taisho period that once served as an intimate dining house on the old Bessho Kaido post road. Despite its compact 37-square-meter footprint, it preserves an extraordinary concentration of late Taisho craftsmanship — refined alcoves, patterned glass shoji, and rare exterior plaster reliefs depicting samurai servants and sparrows in a bamboo grove. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2015, this hidden gem pairs perfectly with the adjacent former Ono Bank (now Horaikan cafe) for an off-the-beaten-path heritage visit.

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.

Discover the Shujo Family Residence Stone-Built Embankment in Tokai City, Aichi — a 76-meter Taishō-era seawall built using Hattori Chōshichi's renowned 'artificial stone' (jinzōseki) technique. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2024, this rare survivor preserves the engineering legacy of Meiji–Taishō Japan along the Ise Bay shoreline near Jurakuen Park and the Great Buddha.

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.

Discover the Tokuunji Bentendo, a charming Taisho-era Benzaiten hall registered as a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan. Located in the historic Kira district of Nishio City, Aichi, this intimate pond-side sanctuary reflects over a century of deep Buddhist faith rooted in the legacy of the revered nun Satta Honshin.

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.