Taishō
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Built in 1914 with twenty tracks radiating from a turntable, this Kyoto roundhouse is Japan's oldest in concrete. Designated in 2004 and open to visitors.
The former Nishijin telephone exchange in Kamigyo, Kyoto, finished in 1921, is a concrete building with Venus torsos and dancer reliefs in an Expressionist vein.
Seifuso in Kyoto, built by the Sumitomo family for Saionji Kinmochi, keeps twelve sukiya buildings around its 1912 main house. Important Cultural Property, 2012.
An English Tudor villa the financier Kaga Shotaro designed himself, its half-timbered shell and Jacobean rooms now a museum showing Monet and Mingei crafts.
A 1926 timber villa on the Yura River levee at Fukuchiyama, built for businessman Kataoka Kyubei. Its top floor is finished in high-grade red pine. Registered 2000.
The largest of Amino Shrine's eight registered buildings, this worship hall was rebuilt in 1929 after the 1927 earthquake, with layered chidori and kara gables.
At the center of Amino Shrine on the Sea of Japan coast stands its 1922 main hall, a compact nagare-zukuri building finely carved by its designer Kishi Kumakichi.
The main house of the Arai family in Fushimi, Kyoto, built in 1926, pairs a Spanish-tiled parlour of geometric design with sukiya-style rooms, a fine suburban house.
A 1926 soy sauce dealer's machiya facing Matsubara-dori, Kyoto, 5.5 ken wide, with round-bar lattices, a stone dado and a copper eave. Registered in 2008.
A stone well of about 1926 at Muryoshian, Kyoto: a granite curb of four interlocked slabs and a copper-roofed shelter that omits one post to keep a path clear.
The 1926 retreat behind a Kyoto soy sauce shop, built of prized tsuga hemlock, with shoin-style rooms below and a sukiya room upstairs. Registered in 2008.
A tea room and garden waiting arbor of about 1926 at Muryoshian, Kyoto: a four-and-a-half-mat room behind a mizuya, and a polished-log arbor. Registered in 2008.
A 2-storey storehouse of about 1926 at Muryoshian, Kyoto, joined to the house by a covered passage, with iron doors and lime-plaster walls. Registered in 2008.
North of the East Gate of Imamiya Shrine in Kyoto, the late Taisho mikoshi storehouse is a fireproof earthen building 12.1 metres long with three black iron doors.
The 1926 Imamiya Shrine Tower Gate in Kyoto is a two-storey gate whose tiered brackets and carefully tapered proportions give a tall form a calm, settled outline.
Built in 1926 beside the Tower Gate of Imamiya Shrine in Kyoto, the West Corridor gives a modern building the sweeping eaves and gables of far older shrine design.
Built in 1926 beside the Tower Gate of Imamiya Shrine in Kyoto, the East Corridor gathers its finest work in the gables, with medieval-style struts and brackets.
The former Gion branch of the Murai Bank in Kyoto, built in 1924 by Yoshitake Choichi, is a concrete bank in an American-trained classical style, now Emma.
On the Tanba Kaido in Nagaokakyo, this Taisho wall of 6.5 m sets a latticed front gate in its central bay, with boarded lower walls, white plaster and tiled coping.
Between the main house and storehouse of the Kawai estate in Nagaokakyo, a Taisho garden gate 1.4 m wide is roofed in split moso bamboo, by an earthen wall of 3 m.