Taishō
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A late Taisho storehouse for papers in Kitakata, Fukushima: boarded floors, a west anteroom, iron-shuttered windows and one pair of earthen doors on its front.
Facing the road at Higashiyama Onsen, this early Taisho wing is the largest of the inn's four listed buildings and holds the Kitsune-yu bath and an upstairs hall.
Built in the early Taisho years by a master carpenter of Aizuwakamatsu, this single-storey detached wing set the pattern that the rest of the inn followed.
A 1918 gate of solid zelkova on the street front of an estate in Narukawa, Fukushima City, 3.3 m wide, with a scroll-carved beam and single-board doors and wings.
A two-storey storehouse of 1914 in Narukawa, Fukushima City, with a stone base, tiled namako walls and black plaster, a corridor door and a tatami room upstairs.
The Wakana Family Residence Brick Zashiki Storehouse in Kitakata is a 1916 brick kura with arched windows and a lacquered zelkova parlor and tea room inside.
The Wakana Family Residence Three-Story Brick Storehouse in Kitakata is a 1916 brick kura of three floors on a 31-square-meter plan, with stone arched windows.
The Wakana Family Residence Brick Miso Storehouse in Kitakata is a 1921 stretcher-bond brick kura with two tile-trimmed arched doors, still used for miso.
This 1916 merchant house in Haryu, Minamiaizu, joins a clay-walled two-storey wing and a timber single-storey hall under one big roof, a form called misegura-zukuri.