Taishō
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A 1922 single-storey house in Nahari, Kochi: gabled roof, four-room plan, and gable ends of board, Tosa plaster and three rows of tile ledges. Registered in 2000.
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.
The Fukuda Family Residence Reception Wing in Konan, Kochi, is a flat-roofed concrete office of about 1924, among the first in the prefecture, with rough walls.
The Fukuda Family Residence Guest Hall and Annex in Konan, Kochi, is a 1923 earthen-walled guest hall whose rain-shedding wall tiles make two storeys look like four.
The Fukuda Family Residence Storehouse and Guardhouse in Konan, Kochi, is a 1919 earthen-walled store, the oldest on site, with waves in plaster relief.
The Fukuda Family Residence Main House in Konan, Kochi, is a 1924 timber home of eight rooms, registered for its modern Japanese design and plaster relief gables.
The Fukuda Family Residence Outer Wall in Konan, Kochi, is a 59-meter concrete wall of about 1924, capped with tiles and scored with Mondrian-like joint lines.
The Fukuda Family Residence Garden Gate and Partition Wall in Konan, Kochi, pairs a curved-roof timber gate with a low 1920s concrete wall framing the entrance.
The Fukuda Family Residence Bathroom and Toilet in Konan, Kochi, is a timber service wing of about 1924 whose partition wall frames the path from gate to door.
The Fukuda Family Residence Gate in Konan, Kochi, is a gate of about 1924 with a concrete frame under a tiled timber roof, an early use of concrete in Kochi.
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.
Rock-faced tortoise-shell masonry topped with a buttressed brick wall and a concrete wall frames a Kōchi sake brewer's compound; begun early Taishō, registered 2004.
The largest earthen-walled storehouse in a Kōchi sake brewer's compound, built in early Taishō at the back of the site with board-clad north walls. Registered 2004.
An early Taishō rice store in a Kōchi sake brewer's compound, with a stone base, board skirting, plastered walls and tiers of rain-shedding tiles. Registered 2004.
A tiny early Taishō building, first a brewing research room, set against the front wall of a Kōchi sake brewer's compound; hipped roof, stone base. Registered 2004.
A small early Taishō sake storehouse in Hidaka, Kōchi, joined to the Pressing House in an L, its interior doubling as a passage to the next store. Registered 2004.
An early Taishō brewery building in Hidaka, Kōchi, where sake was pressed at one end and koji grown at the other; now the entrance to a hall. Registered 2004.
An early Taisho gateway at Matsuo Sake Brewery in Kami, Kochi: a 3.6-meter yakuimon with a swelling roof, side gate, brick wing wall and faux-stone earthen walls.
A 1912 one-storey guest wing at Matsuo Sake Brewery in Kami, Kochi, with a hip-and-gable roof, a formal shikidai entrance under double eaves, and boarded east wall.
An early Taisho two-storey storage storehouse at Matsuo Sake Brewery in Kami, Kochi, turning a boarded gable end to the road beside the north storehouse.