Taishō
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Yokohama Port Opening Memorial Hall: a red-brick public hall of 1917 striped with granite, built by citizens' donations, with the "Jack" clock tower and domes.
A 1914 seaside villa in Hayama, Kanagawa, built for the Higashifushimi princely family to a design by Kigo Kozaburo, with a tower, Secessionist details and sunrooms.
Built in 1924 for a Fujisawa druggist, this shop-house moved to a farm in 1938 and to Seiganji temple in 2014. Registered in 2017, it now serves as a Buddhist hall.
A 1922 wooden villa above Isshiki beach, Hayama, built by constitution drafter Kaneko Kentaro after the imperial household took his seafront plot. Registered 2021.
A 1912 wooden Western-style villa beside Ōiso Station, registered in 2012 and thought to be Japan's earliest two-by-four house. It now runs as a restaurant.
The Former Kondo Residence in Fujisawa, a villa of 1925 by Endo Arata, a pupil of Frank Lloyd Wright, was moved from Tsujido and shows his horizontal style.
Yugyo-ji's Obankata is the formal reception building of the residential quarters. Its large carved irimoya porch served the head priest's departures. Built in 1913.
Reigenkaku in Hase, Kamakura, is a 1918 sukiya villa by Yamamoto Jotaro. Now a registered cultural property, it survived the 1923 earthquake and overlooks Yuigahama.
Seikantei, on the hill south of the Odawara Castle site, Kanagawa, is a house of the early Taisho era (1912–1925) with a staggered plan and sukiya interiors.
Built in 1920, the Sojiji Koshakudai is a 2-storey Zen kitchen hall with a bold carved gable, now the reception and home to a giant wooden Daikoku. Registered 2005.
Built around 1911, the Sojiji Koshokutsu Connecting Corridor links the Hokodo to the abbot's house, arching like a drum bridge over a path below. Registered in 2023.
The Sojiji Sanshokan, built in 1920, is an all-zelkova koraimon with a guardhouse, and its plaque recalls three pines at the old Noto site. Registered in 2005.
Built in 1915, the Sojiji Shiundai is the chief abbot's audience hall: a long hip-and-gable exterior with a karahafu porch and calm shoin rooms. Registered in 2005.
Donated by Murai Kichibei in 1915, the Sojiji Bell and Drum Tower has a passage below and a bell above, mixing railed verandas and Zen windows. Registered 2005.
The Sojiji Shoryo, built in 1915, is a Zen study hall in a plain residential style, with an earthen floor and slatted doors, next to the Daisodo. Registered 2005.
The Sojiji Bell Tower of 1915 is an open belfry with 2:1 bay spacing and raking corner posts, the only structure at the temple listed as hard to reproduce.
The Sojiji Taihokan joins a 1915 Owari Tokugawa reception hall, moved here in 1957, to a karahafu entrance saved from a quake-damaged 1912 building. Registered 2005.
The Sojiji Hikari Kannon Pedestal, carved in 1923, is a tapering hexagonal granite base with Sanskrit syllables and petal ornaments that holds up a Kannon statue.
Built around 1915, the Sojiji Hyakken Corridor runs 142 meters past the Buddha Hall, with three gates named for morning, midday and night. Registered in 2005.
The Sojiji Buddha Hall in Yokohama, built in 1915, pairs a mokoshi skirt roof with three-stepped brackets and a plan split by two central columns. Registered 2005.