Taishō

A 1915 tea room south of the Tatsumi main house in Ikaruga, Nara: a 4.5-mat room with alcove, 3-mat prep room, and a hip-and-gable roof with a plastered west gable.

The 236-meter earthen wall built in 1915 around the Tatsumi estate in Ikaruga, Nara, with a clay finish, molded eaves, tiled coping and a tortoise-shell stone base.

The 1915 gatehouse on the north front of the Tatsumi estate in Ikaruga, Nara: a single-story tiled building with double doors, wickets, side rooms and black plaster.

A 1915 clay-walled work building on the east side of the Tatsumi estate in Ikaruga, Nara, built to match the rice stores to its south and share their long eave.

A 1915 storehouse in the northwest of the Tatsumi estate, Ikaruga, Nara: the largest of its six, with an east eave used as a passage and kote-e plaster treasures.

A 1915 rice storehouse in the southeast corner of the Tatsumi estate, Ikaruga, Nara, with a heavy tiled roof, tall wainscots and an east gable rising above the wall.

A 1915 building in the Tatsumi estate, Ikaruga, Nara, linking the main house to the Third Storehouse and tea room: a passage on the west, a storeroom on the east.

The parlor wing of the Nakai Family Residence in Gose, Nara, added in the early Taisho era, holds a 10-mat sukiya-style room with alcove, shelves and built-in desk.

The storehouse of the Nakai Family Residence in Gose, Nara, built in 1916, has white plaster walls, namako tilework, a sheltered loading area and a rice room inside.

Nakagawa Family Residence Storehouse, Nara, 1915: a 12 m by 4.9 m earthen store with a heavy tile roof, plaster band and torii-style door frame, on brick footings.

Nakagawa Family Residence Main House, a 1915 Nara townhouse: lattice shopfront, slatted upper windows, a 2.7 m earthen passage and formal rooms with carved transoms.

Nakagawa Family Residence Brick Wall, Nara, c.1915: a 20 m wall dividing house from textile factory, 15 brick courses in stretcher bond on a granite base.

Nakagawa Family Residence Connecting Corridor, Nara, 1915: an L-shaped corridor glazed with clear windows and frosted transoms, unlike open Naramachi verandas.

The Nanto Bank head office in Nara, a concrete bank of 1926 by Nagano Uheiji with four Ionic columns, is one of the few classical-style buildings in the old capital.

The early Taisho-era home of a Kashihara vinegar brewer in Nara: a 228 square metre farmhouse plan with a formal shikidai entrance and heavy through-columns.

An early Taisho koji room at a Kashihara vinegar brewery in Nara, a wooden chamber nested in an earthen store, with a wall around a plot in the kimon direction.

An early Taisho rice-washing house at a Kashihara vinegar brewery in Nara, its plan stepping in around a well on the north side, now used as a storeroom.

An early Taisho filling house at the centre of a Kashihara vinegar brewery in Nara, with a small attendant's room, now used to brew the sake that becomes vinegar.

An early Taisho earthen store said to have held miso, on the northeast corner of a Kashihara vinegar brewery in Nara, with charred cedar skirting facing the street.

A long early Taisho rice store at a Kashihara vinegar brewery in Nara, converted from a gate building on an old boundary wall, still keeping its central passage.