Taishō

A c.1916 farmhouse in Nakamitani, Kinokawa, with a four-room grid plan and a west parlor whose alcove and shelves sit on separate walls to keep a garden view.

A 59-meter Taisho-era earthen wall around a Kinokawa farm estate, set on stone footings and faced with small green chlorite schist stones packed without gaps; 2023.

The middle gate of the Oka family home in Kudoyama, Wakayama, built in the early Taisho era, is a copper-roofed gate with latticed doors that frames the main house.

A tall 1924 earthen storehouse where the Ozaki lacquer merchants of Kuroe kept their goods: three floors, white plaster walls, dated by its ridge-raising offering.

Mid-Taisho townhouse at the heart of the Ozaki lacquer merchants' Kuroe home: shop and living rooms under one hip-and-gable roof, with a lacquered coffered ceiling.

A c.1924 two-storey earthen storehouse on the south edge of the Ozaki property in Kuroe, built with local methods: heavy rafters off the ridge and round gable vents.

The Odai Irrigation Canal Kozumi River Aqueduct is a small 1914 brick arch in Kinokawa, Wakayama, the only one of the canal's four with English bond and a plaque.

The Odai Irrigation Canal Tatsunotoi Aqueduct is a 1919 arch of brick and stone carrying the canal over the Anabuse valley, Wakayama, the largest of its four parts.

A 1915 farmhouse in Aridagawa, Wakayama, dated by its ridge tag, with a through earth-floored passage, six rooms and an open entrance landing; registered in 2018.

A 6.1 m Taisho-era earthen wall in Aridagawa, Wakayama, on a diagonal stone base, plastered on the inside and finished in washed aggregate toward the street.

A two-storey Taisho-era annex in Aridagawa, Wakayama: white clapboard and sash windows outside, tatami inside, where painter Kawaguchi Kigai lived in wartime.

A 156-metre concrete terrace cut into a hillside at Toin High School, Wakayama, built in 1922 after two national baseball titles and Japan's first imperial ballgame.

This 50-metre stone wall and approach in Shingu City was designed by Nishimura Isaku around 1926: granite porphyry in diagonal coursing, plus an arched well chamber.

Standing in the Tankaku district of Shingu City, Wakayama, the Former Chapman House Main Building is a two-story wooden Western-style residence completed in 1926. It was designed by Shingu native Nishimura Isaku for the American Presbyterian missionary E.N. Chapman, embodying the architect's pioneering 'living-room-centered' home philosophy. Registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in 2020, it is now freely open to visitors and pairs beautifully with nearby Kumano Hayatama Taisha and the Shingu Castle Ruins.

A 28-meter Taishō-era net-making workshop in Hirogawa, Wakayama, with many windows and few posts; registered in 2016, it now houses a reservation-only restaurant.

A tall 1920s townhouse of a Hirogawa net-making family with a plaster-bracketed lattice window; registered in 2016, its front room is now a community space for hire.

A reinforced-concrete gate on the estate's southern edge, west of the bath building, where two piers carry a segmental arch and keystone in pared-down Western style.

The estate's main entrance, a nagaya-mon of 1925, sets a room in its north bays against a tiled passage in the south, fronted by a long approach with a stone lion.

A two-story earthen storehouse in the northwest corner, pairing plastered walls with a Western king-post truss and lane-side boarding. Now used as a dining room.

A brick, two-story water tower north of the main house, with sash windows, a cornice and white tile banding, its modern utility shown openly among timber buildings.