Taishō

In Nagoya stand Zuiryo High School's old gate pillars, built around 1924 in reinforced concrete for a former commercial school in a straight-lined Secession style.

The 1923 reinforced-concrete front gate of Tsushima High School in Aichi became a Registered Cultural Property in 2017, listed with twelve other school gates.

Discover Eijuji Chinjuden, a registered tangible cultural property in Shinshiro, Aichi Prefecture. This Taisho-era guardian hall enshrines Dakiniten within the historic precinct of a Soto Zen temple linked to haiku master Matsuo Basho.

Standing at the western foot of sacred Mt. Hongu in Toyokawa City, Aichi Prefecture, the Otani Family Residence Main Building is a stately wooden home completed in 1916 (Taisho 5). It features remarkably thick structural timbers cut from the family's own mountain holdings, a formal shikidai entrance organizing reception rooms and a Buddhist altar room to the north and living quarters to the south through a central corridor, and an early reinforced concrete basement. Together with its earthen storehouse, rice storehouse, and connecting corridor, the residence was registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in October 2017.

Tucked into the foothills of Mount Hongū in Toyokawa City, Aichi Prefecture, the Otani Family Residence Earthen Storehouse is a small two-story dozō-zukuri building completed in 1916 to commemorate the enthronement of Emperor Taishō. Owned by the Otani family — once headmen of Ashiyamada village in the Edo period — it was registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2017 alongside the main hall, rice storehouse, and connecting passageway. Its clapboard skirting, lattice-patterned namako-kabe façade, and butterfly-motif door stops embody the refined craftsmanship of early-Taishō rural architecture in Mikawa.

Discover the Okazaki Shinkin Bank Museum, a nationally registered tangible cultural property in Okazaki, Aichi. Built in 1917, this stunning Renaissance-style brick building was designed by Suzuki Teiji, a protégé of Tokyo Station architect Tatsuno Kingo.

Built in 1923 within the grounds of Kankyo Shuzo, a historic mirin brewery in Kanie, Aichi, this two-story wooden residence blends a refined shoin-style interior with a second-floor Western-style room. Registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in 2005, it embodies the architectural transition of the Taisho era.

Completed in 1923 alongside the family residence, the Kankyo Mirin Residence Earthen Storehouse in Kanie, Aichi Prefecture is a two-story dozō registered as a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan in 2005. Located within the working compound of Kankyō Shuzō — a mirin and sake brewery founded in 1862 — it features striking black-plaster walls and an unusual direct connection to the main residence, embodying the riverside heritage of one of Japan's longest-running fermentation enterprises.

A storehouse built around 1924 for a town office in Aichi, hiding reinforced concrete walls under a traditional plastered look, now the local museum's collection store.

A 1924 town council hall in Aichi, registered as a cultural property in 2006. Its tall assembly chamber, coffered ceiling and public gallery survive as a free museum.

Built in 1925 for eastern Mikawa's first private bank, this concrete landmark in Shinshiro is now the Horaikan cafe and a Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

A 1920 timber farmhouse beside the moat of fortified Honsho-ji temple in Anjo, its raised altar room and sermon-ready plan earning national registration in 2024.

Behind a Taisho mansion on Nagoya's Cultural Path stands the storehouse of actress Kawakami Sadayakko's former home, a registered reinforced-concrete kura.

A Taisho mansion built for actress Kawakami Sadayakko, restored on Nagoya's Cultural Path with stained glass and period rooms that recall her remarkable life.

Built in 1914, the old office carries a tiled irimoya roof on a Western truss. It once faced the old road and keeps traces of its merchant counter inside.

A two-storey plastered building of 1914. Its ground floor takes the workshop form called a moro, where ceramics were boxed for shipment, a working storehouse.

Tucked away in the mountain town of Shinshiro in eastern Aichi, the Former Ryotei Kikusui is a small wooden building from the late Taisho period that once served as an intimate dining house on the old Bessho Kaido post road. Despite its compact 37-square-meter footprint, it preserves an extraordinary concentration of late Taisho craftsmanship — refined alcoves, patterned glass shoji, and rare exterior plaster reliefs depicting samurai servants and sparrows in a bamboo grove. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2015, this hidden gem pairs perfectly with the adjacent former Ono Bank (now Horaikan cafe) for an off-the-beaten-path heritage visit.

Discover the Shujo Family Residence Stone-Built Embankment in Tokai City, Aichi — a 76-meter Taishō-era seawall built using Hattori Chōshichi's renowned 'artificial stone' (jinzōseki) technique. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2024, this rare survivor preserves the engineering legacy of Meiji–Taishō Japan along the Ise Bay shoreline near Jurakuen Park and the Great Buddha.

Chiryu Shrine's Taisho-era offering hall, registered in 2014, stands before the main hall in a rare Owari-style row of sanctuaries, near a pagoda rebuilt in 1509.

Discover the Tokuunji Bentendo, a charming Taisho-era Benzaiten hall registered as a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan. Located in the historic Kira district of Nishio City, Aichi, this intimate pond-side sanctuary reflects over a century of deep Buddhist faith rooted in the legacy of the revered nun Satta Honshin.