Taishō
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A Taisho-era storehouse at the Naniwa Shuzo brewers' home in Hannan, Osaka, its sides plastered to mimic clapboards and its gable front set with namako-kabe tiles.
A Taisho-era guest wing at the Naniwa Shuzo brewers' home in Hannan, Osaka, pairing a fine zashiki with a Western parlour of tall windows and a plaster ceiling rose.
A Taisho-era tile-capped wall at the Naniwa Shuzo brewers' home in Hannan, Osaka, whose coping continues the main house eave line and keeps the street front whole.
The Nishiyama Family Residence Main House in Toyonaka is a 1912 ready-built home enlarged into an L-shaped house with a guest wing. Registered in 2018.
The 1912 main gate and 13-meter wall of the Nishiyama Family Residence face the street in Toyonaka: a bracket gate and charred-cedar wall, registered in 2018.
The Nishiyama Family Residence High Wall in Toyonaka runs 49 meters along the east side: an early Taisho charred-cedar wall with tiled coping, registered in 2007.
A small 1910s Western-style annex at the Nishiyama Family Residence in Toyonaka, remodeled in 1939 with Art Deco cut glass and its furniture. Registered in 2007.
The United Church of Christ in Japan Osaka Church, registered in 1996, is a red-brick Romanesque church by Vories, completed in 1922 and open after services.
A 1919 wooden chapel in Osaka's Sumiyoshi Ward that gained a 2-storey front and tower in 1931. Registered in 2005; look for the tower and the blocked round window.
Early Taisho gate and 8.8 m wall of a former cotton merchant's house in Yao, Osaka. The gate's side walls project in a U under one gabled roof. Registered in 2019.
A Taisho-era working shed on the Fujii estate in Higashiosaka, roofed with round poles over a packed earth floor: the plain end of a carefully graded residence.
A small early Taisho gatehouse in Hirakata, Osaka, with a wicket-door gateway, a tool barn and black plaster walls over weatherboards. Registered in 2019.
Miki Gakki in Osaka, a concrete music shop of 1924 said to follow a German model, stresses its height with vertical lines of tile, a fine Taisho commercial building.
The terminal of the Mizuma Railway in Kaizuka, Osaka, built in concrete in 1926, has a pagoda-like centre and round end bays; it is now Mizuma-Kannon Station.
Minase Shrine Treasure House in Shimamoto, Osaka, is a two-story Taisho-era plastered storehouse with stone steps and a sheltered door, registered in 2016.
Minase Shrine Chozusha in Shimamoto, Osaka, is a Taisho-era water pavilion of 5.5 square meters with a coffered ceiling and a plum-blossom gable pendant.
A two-story earthen storehouse of about 1921 on the corner of the Minami estate in Hannan, Osaka, once a rice store for sake brewing. Registered 2005; street view.
The stone retaining wall of the Mezan Atsushi Residence, a 19-meter dry-laid wall of rounded fieldstones that curves along a steep road and rises to about five meters.
The kitchen wing of the Mezan Atsushi Residence, its smallest registered building at about 12 square meters, with a well and sink on a fully stone-paved floor.
The north and east walls of the Mezan Atsushi Residence, a roofed boundary wall of about 25 meters from 1912, with black plaster, red posts and accent ridge tiles.