Taishō
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The worship hall of Nakayama Shrine in Tsuyama, Okayama, built in 1922 to a design by Egawa Saburohachi, shows his style in its rafters, ceiling and bracket arms.
The offering hall of Nakayama Shrine in Tsuyama, Okayama, built in 1922 to a design by Egawa Saburohachi, is open on all sides under a boat-bottom ceiling.
Designed by Nishimura Isaku in 1923, this Kurashiki church sets its sanctuary above a granite-faced base, reached by a long ramp up to a terrace. Registered 2009.
Circular reservoir of 1919 on Mount Handa, Okayama, added in the first extension. Like the 1905 basins, its roof has 16 concrete ribs radiating from a domical vault.
Late Edo home of the Himei doctors in Asakuchi, Okayama: sukiya reception rooms with poem-carved transoms west, a 1914 Western-style clinic east. Registered 2015.
Built in 1917 and used as Manabeshima's post office until 1962, this 2-storey timber building in Kasaoka shows a rare Western face: mortar walls and tall windows.
Marumoto Family Residence Wall, Okayama: a 15-metre early Taisho garden wall of grey lime plaster, lattice windows and flat tile on a cut-stone footing.
Marumoto Sake Brewery Well and Stone Wall, Okayama: an early Taisho stone well under a tiled shelter, source of the Shimizuya name, and a 30-metre wall.
Marumoto Sake Brewery Shop, Okayama: a tall early Taisho two-storey shop of 63 square metres, with an earth-floored sales room below and a tatami room upstairs.
Marumoto Sake Brewery Shop Side Gate, Wall and Stone Steps, Okayama: an early Taisho gate, 12-metre wall and stone steps lifting the shop front above the river.
Marumoto Sake Brewery West Storehouse, Okayama: an early Taisho fermentation store of 432 square metres, two plastered stores side by side under a deep cornice.
Marumoto Sake Brewery East Storage Shed, Okayama: a long early Taisho store 30 metres by 6 metres, framed in slender logs and trusses, its timber eaves unplastered.
Marumoto Sake Brewery East Storehouse, Okayama: a 1913 fermentation store of 747 square metres on higher ground, framed in round logs right down to the rafters.
Marumoto Sake Brewery South Storehouse, Okayama: an early Taisho rice store and mill of 313 square metres, a long dog-leg wall of small windows facing the fields.
Mizote Family Residence New Reception Wing is a 1921 guest pavilion in Hayashima with a tea room, an eight-mat reception room and a veranda of wide zelkova boards.
Mizote Family Residence Pickle Shed in Hayashima is a long work shed from about 1921, with a hipped north end, a gabled south end and king post trusses inside.
The Myokyoji Arakuma Tennosha Shrine at Saijo Inari in Okayama is a 1919 shrine behind the old sanctuary, counted among the most ornate of the subsidiary shrines.
The Myokyoji Onori Tennosha Shrine at Saijo Inari in Okayama is a 1917 one-bay shrine whose veranda is cantilevered on bracket arms instead of standing on posts.
The Myokyoji Kanshoken at Saijo Inari in Okayama is a two-storey Taisho-era annex, glazed below and white-plastered above, built to be seen with its gardens.
The Myokyoji Guest Hall and Priests' Quarters at Saijo Inari in Okayama is a tiled complex of 1916 with a grand cusped-gable entrance, open with its garden.