Taishō
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A 1916 guest wing in Hashimoto, Wakayama, with a shikidai entrance and a formal shoin room. Moved whole by hikiya in 1955 when the road widened. Exterior views only.
A 1917 Taisho merchant house by Kokawa Station, with a grand hall of embossed kinkarakami walls, an umbrella-ribbed ceiling and a Western stair hall; partly a cafe.
A 1918 earthen storehouse at the back of the Yamasaki estate in Kokawa, Wakayama, its walls sheathed in iron sheet, with three rooms below and one open room above.
A late-Taisho brick wall running 130 meters around the Yamasaki estate in Kokawa, Wakayama: tile-capped on the street front, raised as a firebreak on the west side.
A tall late-Taisho earthen storehouse on the Yamasaki estate's street corner in Kokawa, Wakayama, with a hongawara gable roof, board walls and a white plaster band.
A Taisho-era palm-fibre merchant's office on Route 370 in Kainan, Wakayama, with black lime plaster, a front glazed on both floors and iron columns. Registered 2007.
Largest of three Taisho storehouses of a palm-fibre merchant in Kainan, Wakayama: white gable to the road, iron-clad base, work area by the office. Registered 2007.
A Taisho storehouse parallel to Route 370 in Kainan, Wakayama, opposite a palm-fibre merchant's office, with three doorways and fine plaster eaves. Registered 2007.
Earliest of a palm-fibre merchant's Taisho storehouses in Kainan, Wakayama, with the Kaneichi mark on its gable and a boarded base. Registered 2007, on Route 370.
A 1923 earthen storehouse at the Yamamoto estate in Kainan, Wakayama, raised on a tall granite base, with white plaster walls, a boarded skirt and a hongawara roof.
A middle-Taisho earthen storehouse at the Yamamoto estate in Kainan, Wakayama, set at right angles to its twin, with a pan-tile gable roof and an iron canopy.
A 52-meter timber inspection shed at Idakiso Station, framed with king-post trusses of rough logs and two sunken floor pits. Built in 1916 and still in service; registered in 2014.
A 43-meter stone platform from 1916 and an early-Showa steel shelter whose posts are reused railway rails, finished with a dentil cornice. Registered together in 2014.
A 14-meter steel two-span girder bridge about 3 km west of Idakiso, its girders staggered to cross an irrigation canal at a sharp skew. Built in 1916, the oldest of the line three registered bridges.
Built in 1926 by a local Koyasan carpenter, this private wooden house is a registered cultural property in a World Heritage landscape, but it is closed to visitors.
Wagoan Storehouse at Koyasan is a two-storey earthen-walled store of about 1926, registered in 2008. Just 22 square metres, roofed in copper shaped as pantiles.
Wagoan Wall runs 7.4 metres along a Koyasan lane, clad in flattened bamboo outside and woven cedar bark within. Registered as a Cultural Property in 2008.
Wagoan Gate at Koyasan is a bracket-arm gate of about 1926 with a 1.5-metre opening, knotty log posts and paired rafters under a hipped roof. Registered in 2008.