Taishō

Completed in 1924, the Saigawa Ohashi Bridge is a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property spanning the Saigawa River in Kanazawa. Designed by pioneering bridge engineer Sekiba Shigeki and partially built with British steel, this Warren truss bridge features a striking blue gradient paint inspired by Kaga Yuzen dyeing and a gold-leaf nameplate, serving as a beloved symbol connecting Katamachi and Nishi Chaya districts.

Shokoji's north storehouse in Hakusan, built in 1914, is the earliest of the temple's Taisho buildings, a small earthen dozo with black-plaster base and stone facing.

Shokoji's guest hall in Hakusan, built in 1918, is the temple's most ornate building, with a cusped entrance gable, gold-papered walls and mother-of-pearl transoms.

Shokoji's kuri in Hakusan, a two-storey priests' quarters of 1918, shows a decorated west gable of struts and boat brackets over weatherboarding, cited as a modern kuri.

Shokoji's zashiki wing in Hakusan, a two-storey timber building of 1918, holds formal rooms with alcoves over two floors and served as living and reception space.

Shokoji's tea house in Hakusan, built in 1918, gathers named rooms such as Ryoryo-an under one roof, a refined Taisho tea complex with a compact log-and-bamboo tea room.

Shokoji's south storehouse in Hakusan, an earthen dozo of 1918, frames its street-side windows in a torii-like outline to compose the townscape; a registered property.

Standing in the heart of Kanazawa's Nishi Chaya-gai geisha district, the Nishi Kenban Jimusho was built in 1922 as a practice hall and management office for geisha. Its water-blue Western-style office wing, adorned with a bargeboarded entrance porch, connects via a small courtyard to a traditional Japanese-style practice hall behind. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2003, it remains in active use as a geisha rehearsal space — a living window into the Taisho era.

Kosseikutsu is the personal study of Nishida Kitaro (1870-1945), modern Japan's most influential philosopher, now preserved on the grounds of the Nishida Kitaro Museum of Philosophy in Kahoku City, Ishikawa Prefecture. Built in 1923 as part of his Kyoto residence and registered as a national tangible cultural property in 2003, this compact Western-style room retains his original desk, fireplace, and 2,000-volume library, offering a rare glimpse into the space where groundbreaking philosophical ideas were born.

The Harukiya Clothing Store, located on the historic Ipponsugi-dori in Nanao City, Ishikawa Prefecture, is a two-story wooden Western-style building constructed in 1921 as the Western clothing department of a traditional kimono merchant. Featuring a mortar-plastered façade with semi-circular arched windows and classical cornices, it was registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2014. This elegant Taisho-era commercial building reflects the modernization of the port town of Nanao on the Noto Peninsula.

Odaka Memorial Hall in Tateyama City, Chiba Prefecture, is a Western-style wooden building originally constructed around 1922 as a Furukawa Bank branch and relocated to its present harborside location in 1930. With its white clapboard walls and red iron roof, this nationally registered tangible cultural property now serves as a fair trade café, continuing to weave its century-long story on the scenic Boso Peninsula coast.

In Chōshi, the former Kōsei Kaikan is a 1926 concrete hall a soy-sauce magnate built for adult education, with a Secession entrance and a cantilevered film booth.

In Kamogawa, the Suzuki sake brewery's 1923 detached annex pairs an open ten-mat tokonoma room and a full south veranda with a stone store hidden under white plaster.

A late-Taisho thatched farmhouse in Chikura, southern Boso, rebuilt after the 1923 quake. A registered property keeping the area's bamboo ridge and segai eaves.

Sunosaki Lighthouse, first lit in 1919 on Chiba's Bōsō Peninsula, is an early concrete tower. A line linking it to Tsurugizaki marks the legal edge of Tokyo Bay.

The well-house at the Someya residence dates to 1922. Under its open frame is a white-tiled brick well, and a plate reads Hoshinoi, the sake the family once brewed.

The bathhouse at the Someya residence dates to about 1923. A vent tops the ridge, and inside are bath, changing room and firebox. A bay window shows 1920s comfort.

The Takeda Family Residence in Ichihara City, Chiba, is a nationally registered tangible cultural property. This former clinic blends a Western-style white clapboard exterior with a traditional Japanese black-tiled irimoya roof, telling the story of modern medicine meeting rural Japan.

The Chiba Reimei Gakuen Seitokan in Yachimata City, Chiba Prefecture, is a single-story wooden Western-style building constructed in 1924 as a combined auditorium and martial arts hall. Featuring a distinctive modified truss structure and half-hipped roof reflecting post-Great Kanto Earthquake engineering, it was registered as a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2013. Discover this rare surviving example of Taisho-era architecture in Japan's premier peanut-producing region.

After the 1923 earthquake levelled his shop, a Tateyama hardware merchant rebuilt in 1924 from a relocated storehouse, now the area's last quake-era kura shop.