Taishō
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The Asanogawa Bridge in Kanazawa is a three-arch reinforced concrete bridge of 1922, 55 metres long, with roughcast spandrels and granite cutwaters at its piers.
The Asanogawa Bridge Fire Watchtower at the north end of the bridge in Kanazawa is the city's oldest, a steel tower of 1924 on a triangular plan, 11 metres tall.
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.
Built in the Taisho era at Zorokuen in Kaga, this 54-square-metre rice store places a covering roof over two adjoining storehouses to close the street frontage.
Built in 1920 beside Storehouse 3 at Zorokuen in Kaga, this plain 25-square-metre single-storey store held fishing and funeral gear behind boarded walls.
Built in the Taisho era between Storehouses 5 and 7 at Zorokuen in Kaga, this 36-square-metre store sets sliding doors, plaster and battened boards on one face.
Built in 1920 on the eastern edge of Zorokuen in Kaga, this 37-square-metre building held servants' quarters and a charcoal store behind a short wing wall.
Built in the Taisho era beside the entrance of the main house at Zorokuen in Kaga, this 1.8-metre gate divides the inner grounds behind black plastered walls.
Built in the Taisho era in front of the main house at Zorokuen in Kaga, this gate is two capped posts with 6.9 metres of openwork and waist-high walling.
The Kuretake Bunko Main House in Hakusan, Ishikawa, is a 1928 retreat built by Kumada Gentaro, with plastered walls and a corner room with a white birch alcove post.
The Kuretake Bunko Stacks and Reading Room in Hakusan, Ishikawa, joins a c.1915 earthen book vault and a 1928 reading wing, with 14,000 books and a zelkova study.
The Gotokuan Annex in Daishoji, Kaga City, is a single six-mat room of 1919 with a crafted alcove, shelves and ceiling, facing a north garden. Registered 2005.
The Saigawa Bridge in Kanazawa, built in 1924 as a broad bridge for the planned tramways, is a steel curved-chord Warren truss 62 metres long on National Route 157.
This 1921 townhouse east of the Asano River doubles the brackets under its deep eave and turns its upstairs sitting room toward Mount Utatsu. Registered in 2004.
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.