Taishō
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Behind the main house stands a Taisho detached room: a six-mat guest space, a board-floored bay, and a corridor left open to the courtyard under deep eaves.
Built in 1919 at the Okahashi estate in Kashihara, Nara, the only storehouse linked to the main house by a corridor, with a truss roof and a hoisting hatch inside.
The 1917 main house of the Okahashi estate in Kashihara, Nara: 399 square metres, nine rooms in three rows, an earth-floored bay and a tea room off a corridor.
The largest of seven storehouses at the Okahashi estate in Kashihara, Nara: a Taisho rice store of 115 square metres with an exposed timber frame and truss roof.
A 1919 rice storehouse at the Okahashi estate in Kashihara, Nara, facing inward but forming the wall of the east lane, where its boarded back can be seen.
Built in 1917 with the main house, the principal storehouse of the Okahashi estate in Kashihara, Nara, has two storeys and rows of bracketed window hoods.
A 1922 gatehouse on the north side of a merchant estate in Kashihara, Nara: 19 metres of black plaster over a tiled namako-kabe base, with a stepped ridge line.
A 1921 reception wing in a merchant estate garden in Kashihara, Nara: two upper rooms ringed by a veranda, once said to view the Yamato Sanzan, and a tea room.
A 1922 wall wrapping the northeast corner of a merchant estate in Kashihara, Nara: 30 metres of timber and render on a stone footing, made to look like a tsuiji-bei.
An early Taisho roofed wall, 3.5 meters high, turning the southwest corner of a townhouse estate in Yagi, Kashihara, to enclose a small garden. Listed 2009.
An early Taisho gate and wall in a Yagi townhouse estate, Kashihara: white plaster to the service side, combed grey plaster and bamboo to the garden. Listed 2009.
An early Taisho sukiya-style parlor and three-mat tea room on an inner garden in a Yagi townhouse estate, Kashihara, with a round window and fretwork. Listed 2009.
A 1923 granite wall, 52 m long, on the south edge of the Kokawa house in Nara: cut stone 2 to 3 m high in 6 to 8 courses with slab coping, holding the raised plot.
The 1923 front gate of the Kokawa house in Nara: a zelkova yakuimon with a tiled roof and a 2.4 m opening, set behind a forecourt between stone-based sleeve walls.
A 1923 timber house in Takabatake, Nara, with three wings in a U and a hip-and-gable reception wing staggered toward the view. Registered in 2008 for its design.
A 1923 tile-capped earthen wall, 29 m long, on the east edge of the Kokawa house in Nara, its clay left at the middle coat, on a boulder base retaining the ground.
A 1923 2-storey earth-walled storehouse at the Kokawa house in Nara, 6.0 by 4.0 m, with a tiled gable roof, a lean-to on two sides and finely made window hoods.
A 1923 gatehouse row by the gate of the Kokawa house in Nara, once servants' rooms and a barn, with white plaster walls and a latticed bay window to the street.
Taisho wall at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: 14.3 metres on the north lane, with a plaster cornice; storehouse eaves behind form a second line. Registered 1998.
Taisho drying house at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: a long plastered building on the north lane where ink dries, with round windows for air. Registered 1998.