Taishō

Taisho-era gate and wall between the main house and annex of the Ebara compound in Toyonaka: a bracketed gate with a sliding plank door, the wall open at the top.

A Taisho-era roji gate and 13-metre wall splitting the front garden of the Ebara compound in Toyonaka, its outer face finished in black plaster and lattice windows.

The Endo residence in Tezukayama, Osaka, built in 1922 to a design by William Merrell Vories as a missionary house, has a central stair hall and a fireplace.

Standing in the heart of Osaka's historic financial district, the Osaka Club is a stately 1924 building designed by architect Takeo Yasui. Registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 1997, it is celebrated as one of "Osaka's Three Great Modern Buildings" alongside the Cotton Industry Hall and the Osaka Gas Building. Its bold blend of Southern European massing with Asian, Indian, and Islamic decorative motifs makes it the defining masterpiece of Yasui's "Free Style" — a unique window into the elegant world of Taisho-era Japanese gentlemen's society.

The Kashita Shrine Worship Hall and Offering Hall in Izumisano, Osaka, is a 1915 tiled hip-and-gable hall with a gabled porch and coffered room, registered in 2024.

The Kashita Shrine Main Hall in Izumisano, Osaka, is a 1915 single-bay nagare-zukuri sanctuary rebuilt after a shrine merger, plain in design and registered in 2024.

The Katashimo Wine Food storehouse in Kashiwara, Osaka, a wine store of the late Taisho period, is an early mix of timber framing with concrete walls and floors.

A 1912 Osaka row house built after a tram line widened the road. Fireproof black plaster faces the street, a wall of glass faces the river. Registered in 2018.

Early Taisho two-storey timber Western-style house in Enokojima, Osaka, said to be a prefectural official residence, with weatherboard walls. Registered in 2006.

A 1926 bathhouse on the old Kyoshigoe highway in Izumisano, its granite tub still set under a plastered barrel vault. Registered in 2024, now a city office.

A late Edo nagayamon gate on a Kusaka headman's estate in Higashiosaka, registered in 2024, with a wicketed door, an attendants' room and a barn on the east street.

A 1925 former fire station in Imabashi, Osaka, registered in 2007, with its fire engine garage opening and Tudor-arched windows, now an Italian restaurant.

Built in 1925, this shinkabe storehouse holds a rice store and a tile store. Its gabled roof mixes heavier tile to the south and lighter tile to the north.

This Taishō dozō east of the gate holds a rice store and a book store. Its library reflects the record-keeping of the family that later founded the museum.

The Konishi Choyokan Gate and Roofed Earthen Wall of 1914 runs 37 metres along a street in Abeno, Osaka, its eaves tiles crested and its ridge inlaid with a sumo.

The Taisho-era main house of a hill farmstead in Nakahata, Takatsuki: 17 metres long under a tiled irimoya roof, with mushiko-mado slots lighting its loft. Private.

A storehouse of 1925 on a Takatsuki hill farmstead. It continues the West Storehouse's wall on the stonework but rises a little higher and has ground-floor windows.

A Taisho-era gatehouse on a Takatsuki hill farmstead, with board doors, a wicket and a room for hired men, joined at its north end to an Edo-period storehouse.

A Taisho-era storehouse joined to the main house of a Takatsuki hill farmstead, set on a stone retaining wall, plastered white outside and lined with boards inside.

Built in the late Taisho era and registered in 2008, this detached wing of a Takatsuki mountain farmhouse sets two parallel rows of rooms, one formal, one sukiya.