Taishō

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Browse Gunma’s cultural heritage from the Taishō period (1912 – 1926). Filter by type and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.

86 total Gunma Taishō Period 1912 – 1926
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Goto Textile Warehouse
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Goto Textile Warehouse

A small 1925 gabled store just inside the gate of Goto Textile Mill in Kiryu, built to hold silk thread and refitted in 2015 as a Japan Heritage exhibition room.

Goto Textile Storage Shed
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Goto Textile Storage Shed

A long 1925 shed bending along the east edge of Goto Textile Mill in Kiryu, 16 ken long and 1 ken deep, that stored staff miso and soy sauce, firewood and charcoal.

Komi Family Residence (Mizumuraen) Bathhouse
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Komi Family Residence (Mizumuraen) Bathhouse

The Komi Family Residence (Mizumuraen) Bathhouse is a small Taisho-era brick bathhouse in Flemish bond, built off the firewall of a Takasaki tea shop.

Komi Family Residence (Mizumuraen) Brick Storehouse
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Komi Family Residence (Mizumuraen) Brick Storehouse

The Komi Family Residence (Mizumuraen) Brick Storehouse pairs a brick firewall with open timber posts at a Takasaki tea shop, built in the Taisho era.

Komoda Family Residence Silkworm Rearing House
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Komoda Family Residence Silkworm Rearing House

Built in 1917 by the gate of the Komoda homestead in Isesaki, Gunma, this long two-storey silkworm rearing house has a half-sunken room for storing silkworm eggs.

Shoda Shoyu Brewery Storehouse No. 8
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Shoda Shoyu Brewery Storehouse No. 8

Brewing storehouse of the early Taisho period at Shoda Shoyu in Tatebayashi, Gunma, fifty-two bays long, whose great walls shape the brewery's west side.

Soga Family Residence New Reception Wing
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Soga Family Residence New Reception Wing

A 1922 two-storey reception building in Kiryu: timber on three sides, brick with small windows on the north lane side, and two tatami rooms upstairs off a corridor.

Soga Family Residence Gate
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Soga Family Residence Gate

A pair of rough-faced granite gateposts of about 1922 on Kiryu's Honcho-dori, with stepped edokiri corners and an iron-pipe karahafu ornament holding a lamp.

Nakamura Yaichi Shoten Store
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Nakamura Yaichi Shoten Store

A 2-story 1922 shop on Kiryu's Honcho-dori with a hipped street end, degeta eaves, gray plaster walls and a tall upper floor. Still a paint store; registered 2005.

Onkotei of the Annaka Church of the United Church of Christ in Japan (former parsonage)
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Onkotei of the Annaka Church of the United Church of Christ in Japan (former parsonage)

A 1920 wooden pastor's residence at Annaka Church in Gunma, whose 8- and 10-mat tatami rooms are said to be from a former Annaka domain retainer's mansion.

United Church of Christ in Japan Annaka Church (Niijima Jo Memorial Hall)
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United Church of Christ in Japan Annaka Church (Niijima Jo Memorial Hall)

Completed in 1919, 30 years after Niijima Jo's death, this Oya stone church in Annaka, Gunma, has buttresses, a bell tower and a vaulted ceiling. Registered 2004.

Fujiu Family Residence Bonsai Shed
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Fujiu Family Residence Bonsai Shed

A narrow Taisho-era shed in the northeast corner of the Fujiu estate in Kiryu, Gunma, used to overwinter bonsai, its west wall lined with sliding doors.

Fujiu Family Residence Bathhouse
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Fujiu Family Residence Bathhouse

A Taisho-era bathhouse of 5 square meters behind the Fujiu main house in Kiryu, Gunma, with tuff stone lower walls, glass shoji and a tile-cased goemon iron bathtub.

Hokkan Substation
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Hokkan Substation

Reinforced-concrete substation of 1919 in Tomioka, Gunma, that helped electrify the silk mill; German-style roughcast walls, arched windows, still in service.

Morishima Family Residence Inner Wall
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Morishima Family Residence Inner Wall

A c.1924 timber wall, 19 m long, from the gate to the main house door at Kiryu's Morihide silk mill, parting lane and garden, with lattice windows in alternate bays.

Morishima Family Residence Main House
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Morishima Family Residence Main House

Built around 1924 as home and office of Kiryu silk weaver Morihide, with a counting room, Western parlor and tatami rooms opening into a 28-mat hall for cloth.

Morishima Family Residence East Storehouse
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Morishima Family Residence East Storehouse

A c.1924 two-story store behind the Morishima home at Kiryu's Morihide silk mill, entered from inside the house, used for finished cloth, with pebbled mortar walls.

Morishima Family Residence Gate
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Morishima Family Residence Gate

A c.1924 timber gate, 2.7 m wide, at the south end of Kiryu's Morihide silk mill, with pass doors in its wings and 46 m of board and faintly purple concrete fence.

Morihide Textiles Former Kamaba (Dye House)
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Morihide Textiles Former Kamaba (Dye House)

A c.1924 dye house at the Morihide works in Kiryu, topped with a raised vent roof for steam; it now holds indigo vats and hand looms as the museum workshop room.

Morihide Textiles Former Dormitory No. 1 (Processing Workshop)
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Morihide Textiles Former Dormitory No. 1 (Processing Workshop)

A c.1924 dormitory for weavers at the Morihide works in Kiryu: an irimoya-roofed block with two ten-mat rooms and a gabled porch, later a processing workshop.