Taishō
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The Banjo Brewery Bottling Workshop in Otakacho, Nagoya, is a Taisho timber building of 147 square meters with an iron sheet roof and king post trusses.
The Horibe Family Residence Detached Parlor is a Taisho-era tatami reception wing with glass shoji verandas in Inuyama, registered in 2006. Rooms and visiting hours.
The 1913 main hall of Honkoji in Okazaki, Aichi, a Shin Buddhist hall in the Higashi Honganji manner with a gold-leaf and black-lacquer sanctuary. Registered.
A 1918 clay-walled storehouse in the castle town of Inuyama, Aichi, registered in 2004. Black plaster walls, a namako-kabe dado, tiled hoods on brackets.
Built in 1921, this brick storehouse in Gamagōri, Aichi, is a rare survivor, often called Japan's only brick float storehouse, holding the Sangaigasa parade float.
On the Sakai River in Obu, Aichi, this 1916 stone sluice gate stops floodwater backing up the Myojin River. Built in artificial stone, it was registered in 2021.
Built in 1915 by Kitasato Shibasaburo, this German-Baroque timber laboratory was moved to Museum Meiji-mura in 1980 and is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property.
Built in 1917 for the Fourth Higher School in Kanazawa, this archery hall uses a Western roof truss to clear its whole frontage of columns for a line of archers.
The foyer and lobby of Frank Lloyd Wright's 1923 Imperial Hotel, moved from Tokyo to Museum Meiji-mura, where carved stone and terracotta line a three-story atrium.
Originally guarding the Marunouchi south plaza of Tokyo Station, this 1914 octagonal police box mirrors Tatsuno Kingo's iconic station design. Now preserved at Meiji-mura in Inuyama, Aichi.
Discover the Meiji-mura Brazilian Immigrant House, a registered tangible cultural property originally built in 1919 in São Paulo, Brazil, by Japanese immigrants. Now preserved at the Museum Meiji-mura in Inuyama, Aichi, this unique wooden house blends Japanese carpentry with Brazilian materials, offering visitors a rare glimpse into the pioneering spirit of Japanese emigrants.
An early Taisho storehouse of a cotton wholesaler in Okada, Chita, Aichi, with a raised floor and plastered walls; now a weaving workshop for Chita cotton.
Yahira Shrine Sacred Fence is a 28-metre roofed board fence raised in 1918 around the shrine's 1700 sanctuary in Shinshiro, Aichi, kept low so its roof still shows.