Taishō
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The storage building at the Sasa Masamune brewery in Kitakata, Fukushima. Built in 1925, this two-story storehouse ran eighteen bays long. Lost in the June 2026 fire.
The pressing house at the Sasa Masamune brewery in Kitakata, Fukushima. Built in 1917, this storehouse separated sake from lees. Lost in the June 2026 fire.
The document storehouse at the Sasa Masamune brewery in Kitakata, Fukushima. A small 1917 storehouse, its gable bore the family trade name. Lost in June 2026.
The yeast-starter storehouse at the Sasa Masamune brewery in Kitakata, Fukushima. Built around 1925, this building raised the seed mash. Lost in the June 2026 fire.
Completed in 1925 at the head of the Arakawa fan in Fukushima, a 74 m stone-faced sabo dam with earth wings and a sub-dam, the first core dam of the works.
Raised in 1922, this brewing hall runs 38 metres along the south edge of the Aizuwakamatsu brewery yard. Inside it is one undivided room, with a koji chamber above.
Filling the western edge of the Aizuwakamatsu brewery yard, this late Taisho storehouse held finished sake below and brewing tools above, and joins its neighbour.
The Suzuzen Komesumigura is a small 1922 storehouse in Aizuwakamatsu once used for rice and charcoal, with a gable door and truss roof. Registered in 2021.
The Suzuzen Chozogura is a 1919 storehouse in Aizuwakamatsu built for household goods, with two sealed doorways and a Western truss roof. Registered in 2021.
A Taisho-era guest wing behind the Shimanuki main house in Fukushima City: two ten-mat rooms per floor, a glazed garden veranda and black persimmon alcoves.
Totsuna Bridge at Iizaka Onsen, Fukushima, a steel arch of 1915 registered in 2020, is among Japan's oldest steel arch bridges, with a delicate profile.
Built about 1915, this merchant's house in Aizuwakamatsu has a glazed counting room below and three reception rooms totalling 35 mats above. Listed in 2019.
This 1914 shop storehouse in Aizuwakamatsu turns a black-plastered wall to the street and holds Ionic columns, lacquered timber and a Western room inside.
Twelve metres of brick on a cut-stone base, built about 1915 along the north edge of this Aizuwakamatsu compound, rising and dropping as fire and light required.
A Taisho merchant house in Shirakawa, Fukushima, built for the Fujiya miso and soy sauce brewery. Its glazed front on the old Oshu Highway was registered in 2024.
Built in 1917 on the Ginzan Kaido in Aizuwakamatsu, this two-storey plastered rice store keeps stepped kakego-nuri doors and an exposed roof frame. Registered 2025.
A 1918 storehouse in Aizuwakamatsu whose upper room is a formal tatami parlour with a black persimmon alcove pillar and fine kumiko screens. Registered in 2025.
A Taisho-era annex behind the Heishi main house in Fukushima City, joined by a corridor, whose upper room has an alcove, shelves and desk in palm and zelkova.
A 1913 two-storey storehouse in Fukushima City faced in stretcher-bond brick below and white plaster above, with traces of a tatami room still surviving inside.
A late Taisho storehouse for household goods in Kitakata, Fukushima: a concrete ground floor, with a doorway and three iron-shuttered windows on its north side.