Taishō
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A 1925 retirement house in Fukuoka's old samurai quarter, its hip-and-gable roof ringed by eaves to look double, with a 10-mat shoin guest room. Registered 2021.
A small 1925 outbuilding at the Yoshimura home in Fukuoka holding a toilet and a wood-fired bath, its toilet door panels pierced with openwork pine and arrow motifs.
The Yoriguchi Bridge in Yame, Fukuoka, a two-span arch of welded tuff built in 1920 with village funds and local gifts, still carries traffic over the Hoshino River.
The front gate of Ryotei Kinnabe in Wakamatsu, Kitakyushu, built in about 1917, uses logs for its brackets and rafters and a glazed transom in a modern sukiya style.
Ryotei Kinnabe in Wakamatsu, Kitakyushu, founded in 1895, keeps a three-storey timber building of about 1917 with sukiya rooms and a black-plastered exterior.
The entrance wing of the Ryotei Sato villa in Ogori, Fukuoka, built in 1925, has a Western room with playful reliefs of tigers, lions and mermaids on its walls.
The hall wing of the Ryotei Sato villa in Ogori, Fukuoka, built in 1925, sets two tatami rooms in echelon, opened to the garden by glazed transom screens.