Taishō

Built in 1920 by speculator Matsui Isuke, this timber main house links three blocks around its garden, known for a Yakusugi-cedar ceiling. Now a restaurant.

A 91-meter earthen wall folding along the estate's south and west faces, tinted reddish with bengara over a sandstone skirt and a local blue-stone foundation.

The smallest registered building here, a privy southeast of the tea house, its yellow plaster walls set with differently shaped windows under cypress-bark eaves.

A compact earthen storehouse south of the north store, dated 1919, the earliest registered here, with plastered walls and a truss roof beside its larger neighbor.

A brick bath building at the southeast of the grounds, with a reinforced-concrete flat roof, parapet, cornice and geometric facade. Modern style in a private corner.

Added in the early Taisho period, this guest wing in Gobo joins the Edo main house by a corridor and has formal tatami rooms and colored-glass shoji screens.

An early Taisho reinforced-concrete wall running 27 m along the west and south of a Gobo estate, with pilasters, curved-corner panels and textured mortar finishes.

The tahoto pagoda of Kodaiin on Koyasan, Wakayama, built in 1917 on a hill in the temple garden, is finely made with four-stepped brackets and chrysanthemum crests.

Koyasan Reihokan Entrance, North and Central Corridors: a 1920 reception block whose walkways step up at the ridge to meet the halls; the one tiled roof of the five.

Koyasan Reihokan Shiunden Hall is the 1920 main hall of Koyasan's treasure museum, named for the purple cloud of Amida's descent. History, design and visiting rules.

Koyasan Reihokan Hokokaku is a 1920 gallery under a two-tiered pyramidal roof, with simple brackets below, dense ones above, and iron louvers to temper the light.

Koyasan Reihokan Treasure Storehouse is a 1920 concrete storehouse in log-store form, thought to be Ōe Shintarō's trial run for the Meiji Jingu Treasure House.

Koyasan Reihokan South and West Corridors: a 1920 L-shaped gallery joining two halls, 21 shaku wide, with a pyramidal corner tower to balance the museum's massing.

The Kongobuji Temple New Shoin is an early Taisho reception suite moved from Kobe in 1957, with an 18-mat formal room where Emperor Showa stayed in 1971.

Built in 1926 by Amerika-ya, Japan's first house-building firm, this Wakayama home sets bay windows and arch-headed openings against Japanese ground-floor rooms.

A 55-metre reinforced concrete boundary of 1926, faced with split andesite below and cast stone tile above, registered for its part in Wakayama's streetscape.

The treasure house of Jōgan-ji in Kinokawa, Wakayama. Dating from 1913, it has a pyramidal tiled roof topped by a jewel finial and plastered walls. Registered 2024.

A 1920 detached guest room moved from Hashimoto to a Wakayama City temple in 2013, registered in 2017 for the quality of its two-tiered alcove and shoin joinery.

A 1920s bracket-armed gate and 20-meter plastered wall at a Gobo, Wakayama estate: finely paired rafters, a transom of odd natural timber and straight-edged tiles.

A small 1920s service building in Gobo, Wakayama: a tiled bath with a goemon-buro iron tub, a maid's room and a pickle store under one roof, facing the north street.