Taishō

Discover Asanogawa Ohashi, a 1922 reinforced concrete arch bridge in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture. This Registered Tangible Cultural Property links the Higashi and Kazuemachi tea districts with its elegant triple-arch silhouette.

The Asanogawa Ohashi-zume Fire Watchtower, standing at the northern foot of the Asanogawa Ohashi bridge in Kanazawa's Higashiyama district, is the oldest surviving fire watchtower in the city. Built in 1924 with a distinctive triangular steel-frame design reaching approximately 11 meters, it is designated as a nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property. The sole survivor of Kanazawa's historic Three Watchtowers, it preserves the memory of Taisho-era fire prevention at the gateway to the Higashi Chaya District.

Built in 1922 as an army commander's villa by Kenrokuen, this Kanazawa house shows a different face on each side and opens free beside a conservation studio.

Built in 1916 in Kanazawa's Ishibiki quarter, this small former clinic is a timber building disguised as Western stone, with a scored mortar front and pilasters.

In Kanazawa, a 1916 wooden townhouse stands behind a former clinic, its plan separating patient and family routes, an early mark of modern urban living in Japan.

In Kanazawa's Ishibiki, the Ueno Family Storehouse is a small 1916 dozo with white-plastered walls and a placed tiled roof, a cultural property near Kenrokuen.

Completed in 1924, the Saigawa Ohashi Bridge is a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property spanning the Saigawa River in Kanazawa. Designed by pioneering bridge engineer Sekiba Shigeki and partially built with British steel, this Warren truss bridge features a striking blue gradient paint inspired by Kaga Yuzen dyeing and a gold-leaf nameplate, serving as a beloved symbol connecting Katamachi and Nishi Chaya districts.

Shokoji's north storehouse in Hakusan, built in 1914, is the earliest of the temple's Taisho buildings, a small earthen dozo with black-plaster base and stone facing.

Shokoji's guest hall in Hakusan, built in 1918, is the temple's most ornate building, with a cusped entrance gable, gold-papered walls and mother-of-pearl transoms.

Shokoji's kuri in Hakusan, a two-storey priests' quarters of 1918, shows a decorated west gable of struts and boat brackets over weatherboarding, cited as a modern kuri.

Shokoji's zashiki wing in Hakusan, a two-storey timber building of 1918, holds formal rooms with alcoves over two floors and served as living and reception space.

Shokoji's tea house in Hakusan, built in 1918, gathers named rooms such as Ryoryo-an under one roof, a refined Taisho tea complex with a compact log-and-bamboo tea room.

Shokoji's south storehouse in Hakusan, an earthen dozo of 1918, frames its street-side windows in a torii-like outline to compose the townscape; a registered property.

Standing in the heart of Kanazawa's Nishi Chaya-gai geisha district, the Nishi Kenban Jimusho was built in 1922 as a practice hall and management office for geisha. Its water-blue Western-style office wing, adorned with a bargeboarded entrance porch, connects via a small courtyard to a traditional Japanese-style practice hall behind. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2003, it remains in active use as a geisha rehearsal space — a living window into the Taisho era.

Kosseikutsu is the personal study of Nishida Kitaro (1870-1945), modern Japan's most influential philosopher, now preserved on the grounds of the Nishida Kitaro Museum of Philosophy in Kahoku City, Ishikawa Prefecture. Built in 1923 as part of his Kyoto residence and registered as a national tangible cultural property in 2003, this compact Western-style room retains his original desk, fireplace, and 2,000-volume library, offering a rare glimpse into the space where groundbreaking philosophical ideas were born.

The Harukiya Clothing Store, located on the historic Ipponsugi-dori in Nanao City, Ishikawa Prefecture, is a two-story wooden Western-style building constructed in 1921 as the Western clothing department of a traditional kimono merchant. Featuring a mortar-plastered façade with semi-circular arched windows and classical cornices, it was registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2014. This elegant Taisho-era commercial building reflects the modernization of the port town of Nanao on the Noto Peninsula.