Taishō

A 27-meter gatehouse of around 1915 guarding a Kurashiki estate, with double doors of solid zelkova, plastered eaves and servants' rooms built into its wings.

A 1914 annex in Kurashiki joining an airy guest pavilion to a black-plastered storehouse; its upstairs room looks south to Mizushima and the sea beyond.

A 2-storey Western-style house in Sukeyasu, Kurashiki, designed by Nishimura Isaku c. 1923, with a hall, central corridor and sunny living rooms; private, not open.

The former Kurashiki Kindergarten of 1915, now the city museum of history and folklore, is a Western-style timber building with a radiating octagonal wing.

Built in 1916 as a religious newspaper's office in Konko, Okayama, this small weatherboarded two-storey building is the oldest of the three Konkokyo Tosha offices.

Built in 1921 on the Konkokyo headquarters plaza in Konko, Okayama, this symmetrical timber office has a stone base, weatherboard walls and a raised central eave.

Around 1917 a dentist in Konko, Okayama built half a Western house and half a Japanese one. Stick Style boards and a decorative gable truss face the street.

Minagi Station in Soja is the oldest surviving station house on the Hakubi Line, built in 1925 as a standard government-railway design. It marked its centenary in 2025.

A Taisho munamon gate on the old Izumo highway in Tsuyama, Okayama, set between roofed board fences and registered in 1997 for its part in the historic streetscape.

A Taisho reception wing at the Kajimura estate in Tsuyama, Okayama: 174 square meters, glazed fittings wrapping both storeys, a divisible tatami suite on each floor.

The Taisho storehouse at the rear of the Kajimura estate in Tsuyama, Okayama: 33 square meters, namako tiling over lime plaster, eaves carried on a layered cornice.

A Taisho building at the Kajimura estate in Tsuyama, Okayama: a Western room with a thrown-mortar German wall joined to a tatami wing, 85 square meters in all.

The worship hall of Zenkaku Inari Shrine at Kiyama Shrine in Maniwa, Okayama, an Egawa Saburohachi design of 1919, has trusses and Western-style footings.

A Taisho-era sake brewing hall 21.1 meters long in Mimasaka, Okayama, with a koji room upstairs, a pressing room at its south end and tall space for vats between.

A small Taisho-era earthen storehouse beside the brewer's house in Furumachi, Mimasaka, its white plaster walls edged by namako-kabe tile bands up all four corners.

The Tsuyama Christian Library of 1926 below Tsuyama Castle, Okayama, founded by a disciple of Uchimura Kanzo, has an Ionic entrance, a clock tower and wall reliefs.

Tenraian, a tea house of 1914 in Kibichuo, Okayama, said to be the first work of garden designer Shigemori Mirei, has three alcoves and was moved by him in 1969.

This 1916 Western-style house in Wake was built as a dental clinic with living quarters. Its corner tower and German siding made it a landmark of eastern Okayama.

Ten years in the building, this Taisho landowner's house anchors the medieval street grid of Bizen Fukuoka. It opens on scheduled days, with tea included.

A Taisho yakuimon gate in the Nagashiki garden on Konoshima, 1.3 metres wide, carrying a bracket block, a winged strut and close-set rafters. Registered 2024.