Taishō
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A late-Taisho retirement house beside the Shimohaga main house in Uchiko, its timber chosen room by room, with figured wood for the alcove posts. Registered 2007.
In Matsuyama's old port of Mitsuhama, this late-Taisho merchant house sets Western scrollwork against a lattice front and a ceramic transom within. Now a cafe.
A clay-walled storehouse of 1918 in Hashihama, Imabari, standing on a cut-stone plinth, its clay door framed in granite and its roof carried on a king post truss.
A tiled timber wall of 1918 running 28 meters along a street in Hashihama, Imabari, boarded below and clay-rendered above. Visible from the road at any time.
A guest wing of 1918 in Hashihama, Imabari, with paintings by Ochi Shokan on its sliding doors and glazed screens of Taisho blown glass facing the garden.
Built in 1916 in Hashihama, Imabari, this wing of 344 square meters is crossed by an earthen passage and holds a kitchen and a deep well lined with cut stone.
A merchant shop of 1918 on the main street of Hashihama in Imabari, with a low half storey, a projecting lattice front and stone steps raised against storm surge.
A retirement house of 1918 in Hashihama, Imabari, L-shaped in plan, its four-and-a-half-mat tea room lit by unusually large glazed sliding screens on two sides.
A two-storey outbuilding on the shrine approach in Dogo, Matsuyama, built about 1914 to hold medicines and later refaced as a shop. Its street windows are false.
Sadamisaki Lighthouse marks Shikoku's western tip in Ikata, Ehime. Built of reinforced concrete in 1918, octagonal in plan and still in service. Registered in 2017.
A Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Uwajima, Ehime: a 1911 soy sauce merchant's house on a former retainer's plot, with symmetrical lattice windows.
Masaki Honten Meeting Room, Boiler Room and Chimney in Matsuno, Ehime, fills the inner corner of two brewery halls, with a brick chimney rising 14 meters above it.
Masaki Honten Draft Sake Warehouse of 1924 in Matsuno, Ehime, spans four ken on a king post truss and takes steady daylight through windows set in its north wall.
Masaki Honten Brewing Warehouse, built in Matsuno, Ehime in 1918, is a single hall 4 meters high, with two rows of polished cedar posts carrying the floor above.
Masaki Honten Storage Warehouse in Matsuno, Ehime, is a 1920s sake store with steel roof beams over one undivided room and a long plastered wall facing the lane.
A 317 m brick tunnel of 1917 on the old road between Uwa and Mikame in Seiyo, Ehime, with stone-and-brick portals; funded largely by Mikame village and still in use.
A sake brewer's 1917 shop and home near Dogo Onsen in Matsuyama, with exposed timbers, round Western windows and a truss above its upstairs hall; still in use today.
A Taisho-era thatched farmhouse moved in 1990 to the Myojogaoka cultural park in Kihoku, Ehime: two tatami rooms and an earthen floor, built of fine zelkova timber.
The stone steps and walls of Meisekiji in Seiyo, Ehime, built in 1916, climb 43 granite treads to the Niomon gate and shape the middle terrace of the temple.
The guest hall of Meisekiji in Seiyo, Ehime, built in the Taisho period, is a plain hall with a cusped-gable entrance, a 48-mat room and a small tea room.