Taishō

Isamigoma Sake Brewery Head Office Store is a late-Taisho shop in Masuda, Yokote, whose signboard front bears a sake barrel in cement relief. Registered in 2002.

Built in 1916 at the south end of the storehouse row at Ishimago Honten in Yuzawa, it is the only Taisho-era building of the five and the last in the series.

Built in 1924, the document storehouse is the newest of the former Nara estate's seven annexes, its mortar walls and iron doors made to guard the family's records.

A 1921 storehouse rendered in washed mortar and scored to imitate stone, with a light roof placed above its earthen one and curved brackets beneath the windows.

Built in 1915, the Main House of Kunibanzai Shuzo faces the old coastal highway by the Omono River, its counting room and parlour along a through earthen passage.

Discover the Konishi Family Residence Zashiki-gura, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Yokote, Akita. This 1922 earthen storehouse showcases exceptional Taisho-era craftsmanship with black lacquer doors and a powerful timber interior.

A 1914 hipped-roof house in Maego, Yurihonjo, built around a 15-mat central room, with a dental surgery and waiting room in one corner and a telephone room.

A brick urinal of about 1914 in Maego, Yurihonjo, 2.8 square meters: English-bond walls, a quarter-circle door arch, a segmental arched window and sawtooth trim.

A 3-storey timber villa of 1921 in Maego, Yurihonjo: a lookout top floor with shachi on the ridge, and inside, wild-geese carvings and etched glass of local scenes.

The rice storehouse of the Sasaki merchant family in Kameda, Akita, built in the Taisho era, bears large coloured plaster reliefs of the gods Ebisu and Daikoku.

The doll storehouse of the Sasaki family in Kameda, Akita, a Taisho-era store later used for festival dolls, shows fine plasterwork, stonework and namako tiling.

Shinmei Shrine Main Hall in Yurihonjo, Akita, is a 1915 shinmei-zukuri sanctuary with free-standing ridge posts and a fanned veranda, registered in 2004.

Kaminozashiki, the Taisho-era guest room of Suzuki Sake Brewery in Daisen, Akita: a 12-mat room with alcove and writing bay in yew and ebony, wrapped by deep eaves.

Suzuki Sake Brewery's Taisho-era middle storehouse in Daisen, Akita, runs 24 metres, with a timber side wing and later testing rooms that trace changes in brewing.

The Toda Family Residence in Yokote, Akita, a large farmhouse of about 1916, has two entrances on its front and lean-to roofs on all four sides, a tidy example.

The Nishi-gura stands across the highway from the Hinomaru Jozo shop in Masuda. A ridge tablet dates it to 1919 and names its carpenter. Its interior is closed.

The Higashi-ato-gura in Masuda is the Taisho half of a paired storehouse at Hinomaru Jozo, built with a king-post truss unlike its older Meiji twin. It is closed.

Brewer's house in Yurihonjo, Akita, built c.1916. Its gable end facing Ishiwaki Street shows tiers of beams and posts over a deep six-room plan. Registered in 2023.

Brewery shop in Yurihonjo, Akita, built c.1916. An office fills its west half and a 20 m earthen passage with a batten ceiling runs back to the house and factories.

Earthen storehouse for household goods in Yurihonjo, Akita, c.1916, joined to the main house. Lime-plaster walls and stepped fireproof doors. Registered 2023.