Taishō
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A 1913 thatched hall in Kongoji's Honbo garden, Kawachinagano, on a site tied to three Northern Court emperors. Six rooms ring an 18-mat room; only one is coffered.
A Taisho-era walkway joining the Grand Entrance and Okuden in Kongoji's Honbo, Kawachinagano. Built of logs and bamboo, it has a bark roof and a thatched arbor.
A 19-meter wall of about 1921 with stone gateposts on the west side of a Sakai house, registered in 1999. Its street-side buttresses echo the pilasters of the villa.
A 2-storey brick building of about 1921 in Sakai's Hamadera suburb, said to reuse plans for an unbuilt hotel. Pilasters rise to the parapet on its street front.
The Waterworks Memorial Hall in Osaka, a brick pumping station of 1914 at the Kunijima purification plant, sets off its red brick with granite over the arch.
The Sumiyoshi Taisha North Side Approach Kaku Torii is a 1919 stone torii in Osaka copying the shrine's Edo square-pillared gate; it flanks the West Great Torii.
The Sumiyoshi Taisha Shinkan Hall in Osaka was built in 1915 for the Taisho Emperor's enthronement, with a throne room, gabled roofs and a cusped carriage porch.
The Sumiyoshi Taisha South Side Approach Kaku Torii is a 1919 square-pillared stone torii in Osaka; with its northern twin it flanks the shrine's West Great Torii.
A 1925 office and residential building in Semba, Osaka, registered in 2000, with a full-height patio courtyard ringed by galleries; now a popular tenant building.
A 1912 reception wing on the Yamamoto estate in Taishi, Osaka: hip-and-gable tiled roof, eight-mat shoin room with alcove, shelves and writing bay. Registered 2002.
Taiyoshi Hyakuban, a Taisho-era building on a corner of Osaka's old Tobita quarter, has a karahafu entrance and themed rooms, one modelled on the Yomeimon gate.
The Takahashi Family Residence in Minoh, Osaka, a timber Western house of 1919 by the Minoh River, is a fine example of the guest houses of large Taisho-era homes.
Built around 1920 with public donations to display relics of Kusunoki Masashige, this plastered storehouse has four daylight windows on each side and central cases.
An early-Taisho nagaya gate on the Tanaka estate in Izumiotsu: a 1-bay service passage beside a barn with earth, tatami and plank floors. Not open to visitors.
Dobuike Textile Hall, a tiled concrete building of 1922 on a corner of Dobuike street in Osaka, keeps rounded corners and dentils beneath its deep eaves.
A Taisho-era one-bay gate at the Naniwa Shuzo brewers' home in Hannan, Osaka, set back from the street wall and leading guests across a forecourt to the annex.
The largest building at the Naniwa Shuzo brewery in Hannan, Osaka: a Taisho-era brewhouse 12 bays long whose raking and tie beams open up a long brewing floor.
A Taisho-era brewhouse at the Naniwa Shuzo brewery in Hannan, Osaka, clad to the eaves in charred boards and standing eave to eave with its neighbour on a back lane.
A Taisho-era brewhouse 16 bays long at the Naniwa Shuzo brewery in Hannan, Osaka, its charred-board gable facing the street and its roof on beams set every two bays.
The 1916 shop and home of the Naniwa Shuzo brewery in Hannan, Osaka: an 11-bay townhouse whose low upper floor and slatted mushiko windows hide modern living rooms.