Taishō
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Ijokaku in Maiko, Kobe, an octagonal pavilion of 1915 built by the merchant Wu Jintang and visited by Sun Yat-sen, is an early concrete-block building.
The 1925 storehouse and barn of the Arai estate in Suma, Kobe: a plastered store on a stone base and an earthen-floored barn under a stepped gabled roof.
The 1925 main house of the Arai estate above the Suma shore in Kobe. A refined two-storey wooden home with a central corridor and a formal sea-facing interior.
The rear hall of the Shotokuden at Ikarugadera in Taishi, Hyogo, built in 1916 to a design by Ito Heizaemon, is an octagonal hall under three tiers of varied roofs.
The middle hall of the Shotokuden at Ikarugadera in Taishi, Hyogo, built in 1916 to a design by Ito Heizaemon, links the front and rear halls of the temple.
A 1916 clothing storehouse behind a Himeji townhouse, 5.9 by 3.8 m, white plaster with a tiled namako dado on the door side only. Registered in 2014; not open.
A guest wing of about 1916 behind a Himeji townhouse: hip-and-gable roof, veranda all round, a 10-mat room with kozama and kumiko transoms. Registered 2014; private.
A storehouse of about 1925 behind a Himeji kimono shop, with two rooms that each have a door and lower walls faced with boards and split bamboo. Registered 2014.
A 1925 kimono shop on Himeji's Nozato road: plastered cornice, glazed upper windows, a tatami sales room with coffered ceiling and a former open well. Listed 2014.
A 1919 guest wing on the Oishi estate in Tanto, Toyooka: alcove, writing desk, staggered shelves, carved transoms and a lacquered frame and ceiling. Registered 2011.
The Onoe Shrine Offering Hall in Kakogawa is a Taisho-era tiled hall set between the Worship and Main Halls, registered in 2007, with gables at the front and back.
Taisho-era waiting bench in the Kajiwara tea garden, Oshio, Himeji: a driftwood post, a circular earthen partition, a tatami seat for honored guests, a sand privy.
Taisho-era front gate of the Kajiwara estate in Oshio, Himeji: a 2.2 m munamon with a gently swelling tiled roof and side walls, visible from the street.
Taisho-era guest annex north of the Kajiwara main house in Oshio, Himeji, with its own shikidai entrance, a mizuya and an eight-mat room with a round-window alcove.
Taisho-era working privy in the tea garden of the Kajiwara estate in Oshio, Himeji: 2.2 m², with a roof hipped on one side and gabled on the other, in cypress bark.
Main house of the Naka-Nishi-Kajiwara estate in Tenjin, Oshio, Himeji: a 1922 gable-entry irimoya house with layered roofs, an east doma and garden-side rooms.
Taisho-era toilet beside the back door of the Kajiwara main house in Oshio, Himeji: a 0.97 m wide block of four stalls with mortar-based walls and lath windows.
Taisho-era thatched tea house on the Kajiwara estate in Oshio, Himeji, with three tea rooms of 4.5, 4 and 2 mats, a stepped roof and a ladle-handle window.
Taisho-era gate to the tea quarter of the Kajiwara estate in Oshio, Himeji: cedar-log posts on tall stones, bamboo and log rafters, a cypress-bark roof.
Taisho-era shrine in the Kajiwara estate, Oshio, Himeji: a thatched one-bay shinmei-zukuri building of 0.64 m², with ridge posts, on a river-stone base.