Taishō

A 1917 timber hospital in Tsuyama with a domed porch, reddish scraped-mortar walls and artificial-stone Corinthian columns, now open free as Josai Romankan.

The northernmost of five registered buildings on a Kurashiki estate, this 1914 storehouse matches its neighbor in black plaster and tile but is larger, at 69 m².

Built around 1914 for businessman Nakayama Setsutaro, this Kurashiki house has a granite-floored formal entrance and a 15-mat reception room with a large alcove.

A 1914 two-story storehouse on a tall stone base at the rear of a Kurashiki estate, its black plaster walls edged with white namako tile cladding and a tiled drip.

A 27-meter gatehouse of around 1915 guarding a Kurashiki estate, with double doors of solid zelkova, plastered eaves and servants' rooms built into its wings.

A 1914 annex in Kurashiki joining an airy guest pavilion to a black-plastered storehouse; its upstairs room looks south to Mizushima and the sea beyond.

A 2-storey Western-style house in Sukeyasu, Kurashiki, designed by Nishimura Isaku c. 1923, with a hall, central corridor and sunny living rooms; private, not open.

The former Kurashiki Kindergarten of 1915, now the city museum of history and folklore, is a Western-style timber building with a radiating octagonal wing.

Built in 1916 as a religious newspaper's office in Konko, Okayama, this small weatherboarded two-storey building is the oldest of the three Konkokyo Tosha offices.

Built in 1921 on the Konkokyo headquarters plaza in Konko, Okayama, this symmetrical timber office has a stone base, weatherboard walls and a raised central eave.

Around 1917 a dentist in Konko, Okayama built half a Western house and half a Japanese one. Stick Style boards and a decorative gable truss face the street.

Minagi Station in Soja is the oldest surviving station house on the Hakubi Line, built in 1925 as a standard government-railway design. It marked its centenary in 2025.

A Taisho munamon gate on the old Izumo highway in Tsuyama, Okayama, set between roofed board fences and registered in 1997 for its part in the historic streetscape.

A Taisho reception wing at the Kajimura estate in Tsuyama, Okayama: 174 square meters, glazed fittings wrapping both storeys, a divisible tatami suite on each floor.

The Taisho storehouse at the rear of the Kajimura estate in Tsuyama, Okayama: 33 square meters, namako tiling over lime plaster, eaves carried on a layered cornice.

A Taisho building at the Kajimura estate in Tsuyama, Okayama: a Western room with a thrown-mortar German wall joined to a tatami wing, 85 square meters in all.

Built in 1919 within the grounds of Kiyama Shrine in Maniwa City, Okayama, the Zenkaku Inari Shrine Worship Hall is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property designed by architect Egawa Saburohachi. This compact yet distinctive building blends traditional Japanese shrine carpentry with Western truss engineering, featuring clustered rafters, a coffered ceiling, and Western-style foundation stones.

A Taisho-era sake brewing hall 21.1 meters long in Mimasaka, Okayama, with a koji room upstairs, a pressing room at its south end and tall space for vats between.

A small Taisho-era earthen storehouse beside the brewer's house in Furumachi, Mimasaka, its white plaster walls edged by namako-kabe tile bands up all four corners.

The Tsuyama Christian Library of 1926 below Tsuyama Castle, Okayama, founded by a disciple of Uchimura Kanzo, has an Ionic entrance, a clock tower and wall reliefs.