Taishō

Tenraian, a tea house of 1914 in Kibichuo, Okayama, said to be the first work of garden designer Shigemori Mirei, has three alcoves and was moved by him in 1969.

This 1916 Western-style house in Wake was built as a dental clinic with living quarters. Its corner tower and German siding made it a landmark of eastern Okayama.

Ten years in the building, this Taisho landowner's house anchors the medieval street grid of Bizen Fukuoka. It opens on scheduled days, with tea included.

A Taisho yakuimon gate in the Nagashiki garden on Konoshima, 1.3 metres wide, carrying a bracket block, a winged strut and close-set rafters. Registered 2024.

The worship hall of Nakayama Shrine in Tsuyama, Okayama, built in 1922 to a design by Egawa Saburohachi, shows his style in its rafters, ceiling and bracket arms.

The offering hall of Nakayama Shrine in Tsuyama, Okayama, built in 1922 to a design by Egawa Saburohachi, is open on all sides under a boat-bottom ceiling.

Designed by Nishimura Isaku in 1923, this Kurashiki church sets its sanctuary above a granite-faced base, reached by a long ramp up to a terrace. Registered 2009.

Circular reservoir of 1919 on Mount Handa, Okayama, added in the first extension. Like the 1905 basins, its roof has 16 concrete ribs radiating from a domical vault.

Late Edo home of the Himei doctors in Asakuchi, Okayama: sukiya reception rooms with poem-carved transoms west, a 1914 Western-style clinic east. Registered 2015.

Built in 1917 and used as Manabeshima's post office until 1962, this 2-storey timber building in Kasaoka shows a rare Western face: mortar walls and tall windows.

Marumoto Family Residence Wall, Okayama: a 15-metre early Taisho garden wall of grey lime plaster, lattice windows and flat tile on a cut-stone footing.

Marumoto Sake Brewery Well and Stone Wall, Okayama: an early Taisho stone well under a tiled shelter, source of the Shimizuya name, and a 30-metre wall.

Marumoto Sake Brewery Shop, Okayama: a tall early Taisho two-storey shop of 63 square metres, with an earth-floored sales room below and a tatami room upstairs.

Marumoto Sake Brewery Shop Side Gate, Wall and Stone Steps, Okayama: an early Taisho gate, 12-metre wall and stone steps lifting the shop front above the river.

Marumoto Sake Brewery West Storehouse, Okayama: an early Taisho fermentation store of 432 square metres, two plastered stores side by side under a deep cornice.

Marumoto Sake Brewery East Storage Shed, Okayama: a long early Taisho store 30 metres by 6 metres, framed in slender logs and trusses, its timber eaves unplastered.

Marumoto Sake Brewery East Storehouse, Okayama: a 1913 fermentation store of 747 square metres on higher ground, framed in round logs right down to the rafters.

Marumoto Sake Brewery South Storehouse, Okayama: an early Taisho rice store and mill of 313 square metres, a long dog-leg wall of small windows facing the fields.

Mizote Family Residence New Reception Wing is a 1921 guest pavilion in Hayashima with a tea room, an eight-mat reception room and a veranda of wide zelkova boards.

Mizote Family Residence Pickle Shed in Hayashima is a long work shed from about 1921, with a hipped north end, a gabled south end and king post trusses inside.