Taishō
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The former Ogimi village office of 1925 in northern Okinawa, built against typhoons and termites, is the oldest surviving reinforced-concrete building in Okinawa.
Communal spring in Nanjo, Okinawa, rebuilt in Ryukyu limestone in 1912, with men's and women's basins, a place of worship and a paved path; a model Okinawan spring.
The Former Yonaguni Family Residence on Taketomi Island pairs a 1913 main house with a kitchen building inside coral walls. Designated 2007, it is open to visitors.
A 1923 Ryukyuan town house linked to historian Kishaba Eijun, with its entrance at the back, an off-center alcove and a roof split into pieces. Moved here in 2008.
A stone screen wall of about 1914 between house and road at an Ishigaki farmstead, 5.7 m long and 1.5 m high, with three courses of cut stone and a coping.
The Irifukuhama Family Residence Main House on Yonaguni is an early Taisho house with three front rooms, rear sleeping rooms and amahaji eave posts, listed 2006.
A 1915 coral limestone wall enclosing three sides of the Omori homestead on Kohama Island: 65 meters of dry-laid rubble with large slabs beside the front gateway.
A 1915 well inside the south wall of the Omori homestead on Kohama Island, with a curb of 6 coral limestone slabs, a half-moon cover stone and a stone washing floor.
A single-story 1915 house on Kohama Island with a hipped roof of Ryukyu red tiles sealed in lime plaster, a four-room plan and 20-mat front rooms used for meetings.
A 1915 screen wall standing inside the front gate of the Omori homestead on Kohama Island: 6 meters of dry-laid cut coral limestone topped with a roof-shaped ridge.
A 1924 Okinawan farmhouse moved into the Okinawa Zoo & Museum: hipped tile roof, deep amahaji veranda and three front rooms in classic order. Visiting tips inside.
A 1924 stone hinpun screen wall at Furusatoen, Okinawa Zoo & Museum: four courses of large awaishi blocks, 1.7 m high yet only 20 cm thick. Its role and visiting.
A 1924 stone pigsty-and-toilet of the Hirata family at Furusatoen, Okinawa Zoo & Museum: arched limestone pens, a manure pit and a toilet laid out in one enclosure.
Built in 1912 on Kuroshima, the Kamiyama Residence main house is a low, red-tiled timber farmhouse with an eight-mat principal room, a Tangible Cultural Property.
On a coral atoll 360 km east of Okinawa, this coursed-limestone office once ran the Tōyō Sugar Company's phosphate mine. Registered in 2005, it is now a museum.
In the port area of Kitadaitō Island stand the remains of a communal bath used by phosphate miners and residents. Two concrete tubs survive. Registered in 2007.
On riverless Kitadaitō Island, a sloping mortar floor of 500 square metres caught rainwater into two sunken tanks to supply the Shimosaka bath. Registered in 2007.
A round stone cistern supplying the Tōyō Sugar employee bath on Kitadaitō Island, about 2.5 m deep and 8.9 m across inside, with limestone walls. Registered in 2007.
A reinforced-concrete staff bath in the old company village of Kitadaitō Island, roofed with a segmental-arch slab and split into three rooms. Registered in 2007.
Around 1919, Toyo Sugar walled this phosphate store on Kitadaito: a 40 m rubble limestone wall pierced by four concrete rail tunnels. Registered 2006; open any time.