Taishō

A 1920s two-storey house in Gobo, Wakayama, designed by an Osaka firm: a double-height earthen passage, an intact kitchen, and a parquet Western room upstairs.

A 1920s earthen storehouse at the corner of a Gobo, Wakayama estate, with moulded window brackets, a lean-to over its door and roof timbers planed even in the attic.

The smallest of seven registered buildings at a Gobo, Wakayama estate: a 13-square-meter earthen storehouse with full tiling, a plaster eaves band and raking beams.

A small Taisho-era yakuimon gate with earthen side walls, used only when the village shrine next door holds its festival: a link between house and shrine.

A Taisho-era reception wing beside a thatched farmhouse in the Wakayama hills; its main room has an alcove, staggered shelves and a writing bay. Registered 2013.

A two-storey Taisho-era storehouse on the Sono estate in Gobo, used for dishes, with a gable-end entrance and a mortar base unlike the Edo stores. Registered 2024.

The Taiji fisheries cooperative office near Taiji harbour, Wakayama, a timber building of 1918, has an unusual exterior with its woodwork painted pale pink.

Built in 1922 to hold finished lacquer, this mortar-rendered brick storehouse in Kainan has corner piers and a top band, and lost its upper floor in a 1953 refit.

A Taisho-era earthen storehouse on the north side of the Nakasuji estate in Wasa, Wakayama City, with an okiyane roof and a boarded base matching its neighbour.

A Taisho-era building on the north side of the Nakasuji estate in Wasa, Wakayama City, joining two tatami guest rooms to a store for tableware. Registered in 1998.

A Taisho-era gate-house at the Nagatake farmstead in Wakayama: a 23-metre tiled range with black-plaster walls and a thin white line. Private; seen from the lane.

Designed by polymath Nishimura Isaku and built in 1925, this small wooden church in southern Wakayama has a steep roof, a tall porch, and an exposed timber truss.

A 1921 timber police building on Mount Koya, Wakayama, registered in 2005, blending temple details such as a dormer gable and frog-leg struts with Western windows.

The Hashimoto rice office in Gobo is a small Western-style timber building on the old Kumano Kaido, where a landowning house counted its tenant rice. Registered 2020.

The Hashimoto earthen wall in Gobo runs about twenty meters along the old Kumano Kaido, with a flared stone base and a washed-mortar face under pantile. Registered 2020.

Hatsuzakura's early-Taishō main house, in Katsuragi's last sake brewery, is a six-bay machiya whose upstairs rooms now host tastings of Kōyasan Hannyatō sake.

Built in the late Taishō era, the Hibuse Clinic hospital wing in Hashimoto stands on a floor raised about 1.3 m against the Kinokawa floods, a clapboard town landmark.

In Susami, Wakayama, the Fukuda Family Residence West Gate of about 1913 is a small udegimon, its transom carved with bamboo and chrysanthemum. Now registered.

In Susami, Wakayama, the Fukuda Family Residence Bath and Privy of 1912 is a rare surviving service block, with five privies south and a bath north. Now registered.

The Second Brewing House at Horikawaya Nomura, from the early Taisho era, carries a Western king-post truss above rows of tall wooden vats. Registered in 2014.