Taishō
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The Myokyoji Arakuma Tennosha Shrine at Saijo Inari in Okayama is a 1919 shrine behind the old sanctuary, counted among the most ornate of the subsidiary shrines.
The Myokyoji Onori Tennosha Shrine at Saijo Inari in Okayama is a 1917 one-bay shrine whose veranda is cantilevered on bracket arms instead of standing on posts.
The Myokyoji Kanshoken at Saijo Inari in Okayama is a two-storey Taisho-era annex, glazed below and white-plastered above, built to be seen with its gardens.
The Myokyoji Guest Hall and Priests' Quarters at Saijo Inari in Okayama is a tiled complex of 1916 with a grand cusped-gable entrance, open with its garden.
The Myokyoji Main Gate at Saijo Inari in Okayama is a large roofed gate of 1921 in front of the main hall, with restrained carving and a bold timber frame on show.
The Myokyoji Hayamisaki Tennosha Shrine at Saijo Inari in Okayama is a 1921 shrine, the largest one-bay shrine of the group, with dragon and cloud tail rafters.
The Myokyoji Yoshimasa Tennosha Shrine at Saijo Inari in Okayama is a plain one-bay shrine of 1917 showing the standard frame of the temple's subsidiary shrines.
The Muku Bridge of 1920 by Tanjoji Temple in Kumenan, Okayama, a stone beam bridge with finial railings, has its deck ends carved to look like the ends of logs.
The only one of six buildings at Yamanari Sake Brewery in Ibara, Okayama registered as a model of design, this 1915 parlor has a tokonoma alcove and garden veranda.
The bell tower gate of Ryujoin in Tamano, Okayama, built in 1922, sets a timber upper storey on a concrete lower storey faced with granite and white tiles.
Built in 1925 for children of Kurashiki's mill workers, this timber wing by Nishimura Isaku keeps its stone entrance arch and hipped nursery room. Registered 2009.
The smaller of two surviving 1925 wings at this Kurashiki nursery, Nishimura Isaku's south building opens east onto a brick terrace and play yard. Registered 2009.
The former Ogimi village office of 1925 in northern Okinawa, built against typhoons and termites, is the oldest surviving reinforced-concrete building in Okinawa.
Communal spring in Nanjo, Okinawa, rebuilt in Ryukyu limestone in 1912, with men's and women's basins, a place of worship and a paved path; a model Okinawan spring.
The Former Yonaguni Family Residence on Taketomi Island pairs a 1913 main house with a kitchen building inside coral walls. Designated 2007, it is open to visitors.
A 1923 Ryukyuan town house linked to historian Kishaba Eijun, with its entrance at the back, an off-center alcove and a roof split into pieces. Moved here in 2008.
A stone screen wall of about 1914 between house and road at an Ishigaki farmstead, 5.7 m long and 1.5 m high, with three courses of cut stone and a coping.
The Irifukuhama Family Residence Main House on Yonaguni is an early Taisho house with three front rooms, rear sleeping rooms and amahaji eave posts, listed 2006.
A 1915 coral limestone wall enclosing three sides of the Omori homestead on Kohama Island: 65 meters of dry-laid rubble with large slabs beside the front gateway.
A 1915 well inside the south wall of the Omori homestead on Kohama Island, with a curb of 6 coral limestone slabs, a half-moon cover stone and a stone washing floor.