Taishō
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Built in 1921, the worship hall of Mikasayama Kasuga Shrine in Bungotakada, Oita, runs nine bays wide and opens on three sides, echoing the plan of Usa Jingu.
The Kayashima Shuzo Komegura of 1916 fronts the road in Kunisaki, Oita: a two-storey earthen rice store clad in boards to the upper windows. Registered in 1998.
At 1,123 square metres the Kayashima Shuzo Shikomigura of 1914 is the largest building at this brewery in Kunisaki, Oita, and its trussed roof marks a leap in scale.
The Kayashima Shuzo Nakagura of 1915 runs some 47 metres end to end, a building shaped around the pressing of sake. Its walls are boarded and its roof trussed.
Smallest of the twelve registered structures at this Kunisaki brewery in Oita, the Kayashima Shuzo Monguchi Soko of 1916 is half gateway, half storeroom.
Built around 1913 as the Ichimiro restaurant beside the Inaba River in Taketa, Oita, this wooden hall keeps tatami rooms below and a staged banquet room above.
The main building of Chikushitei in Nakatsu, Oita, built in 1914 and extended in 1922, wraps two courtyards in a closed ring plan and holds a 52-mat hall upstairs.
The detached wing of Chikushitei in Nakatsu, Oita, sits across a water channel behind the main house: three late-Taisho volumes, each alcove built differently.
A stone-walled canal running along a plateau ridge in Taketa, Oita. Rebuilt from a wooden flume in the 1920s, registered in 1996, it still waters 698 hectares.
On the Mikuma River bank at Hita, 25 metres of mortared cobble rise about three metres, topped by a metre-high brick fence with iron gates above the river steps.