Taishō
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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.
An early Taisho pressing hall at a Kashihara vinegar brewery in Nara, with a sakabune vat for pressing mash, a thick-walled materials store and a shared interior.
Two early Taisho gates at a Kashihara vinegar brewery in Nara: a street nagayamon with lattice window and glass doors, and an inner gate with an osa-ranma transom.
The Minami Family Residence Wooden Fence in Gose, Nara, is a 24-meter roofed wall of 1912 on a cut-stone base, with bracketed eaves and street-side boarding.
The Minami Family Residence Gatehouse and Garden Gate in Gose, Nara, is a 1912 nagayamon with storerooms beside the gateway and a sliding gate in a short wall.
The Yamada Liquor Store teahouse zashiki is a Taisho sukiya-style guest wing hipped at one end and gabled at the other, open to the garden on both floors.
Joined to the main house beside the gate, the Yamada Liquor Store tea room has grey plaster walls, a hipped roof and wide shoji opening onto the garden, in 8.7 sq m.
Set back from the street wall, the Yamada Liquor Store garden gate is the Taisho entrance to Haseji Teahouse, with angled sleeve walls and a copper canopy.
Running 28 meters from the main house along the Hasedera approach, the Yamada Liquor Store wall pairs vertical boards with grey plaster and frames the garden gate.