Taishō

Discover Kita no Kawaguchi Bridge, a registered tangible cultural property in Shimanto Town, Kochi. This semicircular stone arch bridge built in 1919 stands near the confluence of the Kita no Kawa and Shimanto Rivers.

The Former Ichikawa Clinic in Yasuda Town, Kochi Prefecture, is a nationally registered tangible cultural property built around 1913 in Western-style clapboard architecture. Originally the clinic of the Ichikawa family—physicians to the Tosa domain since the 1600s—it now forms part of the Yasuda Machinami Koryukan Nagomi, a community center showcasing Bakumatsu-era history and the unique blend of Western and traditional Japanese architecture.

Within the Kubo grounds in Yasuda, this Taisho river-stone wall staggers its vertical joints, keeps the horizontal courses level, and sets larger stones at its ends.

In the old Tosa town of Yasuda, this small Taisho-era storehouse of the Kubo merchant house wears lime-plaster walls and regional drip tiles above an iron-clad base.

Facing a back lane in Yasuda, this Taisho detached room of the Kubo house holds a six-mat guest chamber with an alcove, its iron-clad walls opening upstairs only.

On the south side of the Kubo shop-house in Yasuda, this modest 1.9-metre Taisho service gate, with a single mairado door, links the household to its garden and field.

A Taisho-era draper's shop and dwelling on a corner in Yasuda, Kochi, registered in 2007. Its vertically boarded gable end anchors the old coastal street.

At the southeast corner of a Tano plot in Kochi, a registered Taisho building puts a gate and a privy under one gabled roof, an arrangement rare in the district.

An early Taisho main house in Tano, Kochi, with a four-room grid plan, a formal shikidai step in the goshi tradition, and two courses of Tosa rain-shedding tiles.

Discover Jokoji Temple Shoin, a registered tangible cultural property in Yasuda, Kochi Prefecture. This elegant Taisho-era sukiya-style study hall belongs to a 400-year-old temple that nurtured key figures of Japan's Meiji Restoration, including Mitsubishi founder Iwasaki Yataro.

A 39-square-metre Taisho storehouse in Kochi answering typhoon country with drip tiles, a ventilated set roof, and two-tone plaster. Registered in 2003 for design.

Built in 1924, the west wing of the Fukoe Residence in Tano, Kochi, is the shop half of a merchant house: earth floor toward the street, cooking range behind it.