Taishō
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A 77-metre soft-stone wall in central Sapporo, built in 1926 and registered in 2010 with the house, storehouse and gate. Its edo-kiri masonry shapes the street.
Koryuji Temple Konpira Hall in Hakodate, built in 1917 by Sawada Kichihei, enshrines seafarers' guardian deities beneath a stack of cusped and triangular gables.
Koryuji Temple Bell Tower in Hakodate, a copper-roofed Zen-style tower of 1922, holds a bell recast in 1954 after wartime loss, still rung daily at 6 and 9.
Koryuji Temple Water Basin Pavilion in Hakodate, a copper-roofed shelter of around 1917, has a dragon spout, carved strongmen and struts by Echigo carpenters.
Koryuji Temple Earthen Wall in Hakodate, a tiled plaster wall of around 1917, runs 53 meters beside the Main Gate, 3.7 meters high, its ridge laid in waves.
Koryuji Temple Treasure House in Hakodate, a 1916 brick storehouse clad in plaster and clapboard with an exposed-brick entrance, keeps the temple's Nirvana painting.
The former materials warehouse of Kobayashi Sake Brewery in Kuriyama, Hokkaido, a buttressed brick building of 1920, is also called the Old Sake Tools Gallery.
The former beer and canning warehouse of Kobayashi Sake Brewery in Kuriyama, Hokkaido, a timber store of 1920, shows its framing in the gables above a brick base.
The No. 3 Storehouse of Kobayashi Sake Brewery in Kuriyama, Hokkaido, built of brick in 1921, mirrors the No. 2 next door but has a higher upper floor.
The koji making room of Kobayashi Sake Brewery in Kuriyama, Hokkaido, a plain two-storey brick building of 1922, holds its koji chamber in the northwest corner.
The No. 2 Storehouse of Kobayashi Sake Brewery in Kuriyama, Hokkaido, a two-storey brick store of 1921, has windows only above and distinctive gables and roof tiles.
Completed in 1925 north of Asahikawa, this 592-square-metre timber hall has a karahafu-gabled entrance bay, a skirt roof with frog-leg struts and dense bracketing.
Built in 1925 in Nemuro, Hokkaido, Seiryuji Hondo was registered in 2024 for the lions, dragons and phoenixes carved on its porch by Kesen carpenter Hanawa Kikuzo.
A brick gateway 4.6 metres high at the Abashiri Prison Museum in Hokkaido, begun in 1919 as the start of the prison wall, built by inmates and registered in 2012.
The Hakodate Otemachi House, the Asano Cement office of 1918 in Hakodate, is a timber building with tower-like corners, concrete-block pilasters and a fanlight.
Built in Sapporo in 1926 for women missionaries, this small three-storey timber house sheds snow off a steep flaring roof. It joined the national register in 1998.
Only the central bay of Hakodate Normal School's 1914 main building survives, moved and kept by its graduates. Its lantern tower won registration in 2000.
Hongyoji Main Hall in Kushiro, Hokkaido is a 1925 Jodo Shinshu hall registered in 2025. Its mortar walls imitate cut stone; its porch beam ends are plasterwork.
Built in 1925 on an Asahikawa street corner, this house sets a battened timber Japanese wing against a roughcast Western one. Privately lived in, so exterior only.
The incense waterwheel mill of the Itani family in Susami, Wakayama, a late Taisho mill on the Kumano Kodo with 16 stone mortars, ground cedar leaves for incense.