Taishō
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Former ryotei of about 1920 on the slope of Mount Senkoji in Onomichi, Hiroshima, in simple sukiya style with log rafters and an entrance on each floor; private.
Late-Taisho timber inn on the old Izumo road in Onomichi, Hiroshima, with every room facing the garden, sukiya rooms and three Western rooms for foreign seamen.
A 1925 concrete dam in Onomichi, Hiroshima, registered in 2004, built for the city's first waterworks and combining gravity and arch construction in a curved plan.
Facing the main house across the courtyard, the Hida storehouse rises as one open two-story volume, built from the outset to hold the mikan crop that defined Ōcho.
This Taishō gate-storehouse fronts the eastern lane of the Hida estate, joining a central gateway to storage rooms, its road-side base in sasarako weatherboarding.
The newest of the Hida estate's five registered buildings, this 1924 detached wing is a refined sukiya-style retreat, its porch posts on carved lion-dog stone plinths.
Three earthen units joined into a 47-metre storehouse in Saijo, Hiroshima. Built in the Taisho era for a brewery founded by pooled investment; registered in 2016.
A 24-metre brick chimney in English bond, crowned with a moulded band, rising over the white storehouse walls of Saijo in Higashihiroshima. Registered in 2016.
A 58-metre earthen sake storehouse from around 1924 at the centre of Fukubijin's Daikoku-gura compound in Saijo, Hiroshima, registered as cultural property in 2016.
A 27-metre English-bond brick chimney from the late Taisho era at Fukubijin's Daikoku-gura compound in Saijo, Hiroshima, the tallest in town, registered in 2016.
A Taisho-era timber office with horizontal board cladding beside the gate of Fukubijin's Ebisu-gura compound in Saijo, Hiroshima, typical of the town's breweries.
A Taisho-era timber dormitory at Fukubijin's Ebisu-gura in Saijo, Hiroshima, where seasonal brewers lived beside the storehouses, sleeping in upstairs quarters.
A red-tiled earthen sake storehouse from around 1919 on the east side of Fukubijin's Ebisu-gura in Saijo, Hiroshima, roofed on a king-post truss rare in town.
A Taisho-era timber dormitory beside the No. 1 Storehouse at Fukubijin's Ebisu-gura in Saijo, Hiroshima, its black clapboard wall closing a three-way junction.
Two Taisho-era granite gateposts, each 82 centimetres square and 2.0 metres high with chamfered corners and carved curves, at the entrance of Fukubijin's Ebisu-gura.
A 28-metre earthen sake storehouse at Fukubijin's Daikoku-gura compound in Saijo, Hiroshima, with inclined-beam roof framing and hooded windows in a steel-clad wall.