Taishō
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Kirei Sake Brewery No. 5 Storehouse is a Taisho-era brewhouse in Saijo whose north wing lines the lane with white plaster above notched-batten boarding under tiles.
Kirei Sake Brewery Western-Style Building is an 18-square-metre Taisho parlour in Saijo, moved by hikiya around 1955, with sash windows beneath a clipped-gable roof.
Early Taisho annex at Koishiki in Fuchu, Hiroshima: 26 square meters of sukiya design with round and crescent windows, black plaster and bark-covered lattices.
Early Taisho annex at Koishiki in Fuchu, Hiroshima, registered for polished sukiya work: a prized-timber alcove, lath-lined eaves and arched lattice windows.
Late Taisho annex behind the Koishiki main house in Fuchu, Hiroshima: a 107-square-meter shoin-style building with an L-shaped roof, and the one annex for rent.
The Saijo Tsuru Brewery Shuhogura Chimney is a Taisho-era square brick stack 19 meters tall that carries smoke by flue from the rice-steaming room in Saijo.
The Saijo Tsuru Brewery Tsunoya is a Taisho-era building in Saijo with a lookout third floor, Western-style rooms, a slate roof and the Tenpo well used for brewing.
The Sanada Family Residence Main House in Mihara is a 1910s merchant townhouse on the old Sanyo Road, with black plaster walls, projecting lattices and slat windows.
The largest of three Taisho-era warehouses at Sanyotsuru Shuzo in Saijo, Higashihiroshima. Registered in 2016, its 207 square metres of red pantile shape the street.
The smallest of three Taisho-era warehouses at Sanyotsuru Shuzo in Saijo, Higashihiroshima. Registered 2016, it has no stairs: the top floor opens off its neighbour.
A Taisho-era storehouse at Sanyotsuru Shuzo in Saijo, Higashihiroshima, registered in 2016. Ten ken long, half of it open to the roof, trusses made of round logs.
Concrete bell tower of 1922 in Shiwa, Higashihiroshima, built to hang a bell sent by emigrants in America; 7.8 metres high, it still sounds the time by siren.
The Takiguchi Family Residence Woodshed in Shobara, Hiroshima, is a Taisho-era shed with an open firewood bay, a pickling room and a silkworm loft upstairs.
Built around 1926 in Shobara, Hiroshima, the Takiguchi Guest Hall and Corridor pairs a tall irimoya-roofed hall with shachi tiles and a corridor split by a wall.
The Takiguchi Family Residence Main House in Shobara, Hiroshima, is a 1913 timber home with a koryo-beamed entrance and eight rooms split into public and private.
Built around 1913 in Shobara, Hiroshima, the Takiguchi Middle Gate and Side Wall is a log-built yakuimon gate and 12-metre wall dividing entrance court and garden.
The Takiguchi Family Residence Storehouse in Shobara, Hiroshima, is a Taisho-era store with an okiyane roof and white plaster walls, shaping the street view.
The Takiguchi Family Residence Barn in Shobara, Hiroshima, is a Taisho-era outbuilding that stabled the doctor's carriage horse and once held silkworm work.
Main house of 1920 of the Takemuraya inn on the Onomichi Channel, Hiroshima: T-shaped, with a bold multi-ridged street front and delicate bamboo-rich rooms inside.
Gate and wall of 1920 at the Takemuraya inn in Onomichi, Hiroshima: a copper-roofed munemon and a black-plastered wall with blind-fitted windows lining the street.