Taishō

Funded by Numata's silk-exporting Hoshino family and built in 1914 by carpenter Kosuge Konosuke, this clapboard chapel is Gunma's third oldest and is free to enter.

A Taisho-era brewing complex in Maebashi, Gunma. Its earthen-walled sakagura keeps both floors undivided for tall vats, with a kamaya east and oroshi lean-to south.

A 1923 machiya facing the old Sado highway in Maebashi, Gunma. Deep segai eaves shape its gabled front, and local residents now run it as HONMAYA, open weekends.

A 1913 brick warehouse in Maebashi, Gunma, 54 metres long in English bond, built to hold raw silk pledged against bank loans. Registered in 2004 and still in use.

A 1925 reception wing at Goto Textile Mill in Kiryu: two tatami rooms with a tokonoma and writing alcove, its own porch, and a later role as an obi showroom.

The 1925 frontage of Goto Textile Mill in Kiryu: a 4.5-metre tiled gate with sliding doors and plastered side walls, flanked by 23 metres of board fence.

A small 1925 gabled store just inside the gate of Goto Textile Mill in Kiryu, built to hold silk thread and refitted in 2015 as a Japan Heritage exhibition room.

A long 1925 shed bending along the east edge of Goto Textile Mill in Kiryu, 16 ken long and 1 ken deep, that stored staff miso and soy sauce, firewood and charcoal.

The Komi Family Residence (Mizumuraen) Bathhouse is a small Taisho-era brick bathhouse in Flemish bond, built off the firewall of a Takasaki tea shop.

The Komi Family Residence (Mizumuraen) Brick Storehouse pairs a brick firewall with open timber posts at a Takasaki tea shop, built in the Taisho era.

Built in 1917 by the gate of the Komoda homestead in Isesaki, Gunma, this long two-storey silkworm rearing house has a half-sunken room for storing silkworm eggs.

Brewing storehouse of the early Taisho period at Shoda Shoyu in Tatebayashi, Gunma, fifty-two bays long, whose great walls shape the brewery's west side.

A 1922 two-storey reception building in Kiryu: timber on three sides, brick with small windows on the north lane side, and two tatami rooms upstairs off a corridor.

A pair of rough-faced granite gateposts of about 1922 on Kiryu's Honcho-dori, with stepped edokiri corners and an iron-pipe karahafu ornament holding a lamp.

A 2-story 1922 shop on Kiryu's Honcho-dori with a hipped street end, degeta eaves, gray plaster walls and a tall upper floor. Still a paint store; registered 2005.

A 1920 wooden pastor's residence at Annaka Church in Gunma, whose 8- and 10-mat tatami rooms are said to be from a former Annaka domain retainer's mansion.

Completed in 1919, 30 years after Niijima Jo's death, this Oya stone church in Annaka, Gunma, has buttresses, a bell tower and a vaulted ceiling. Registered 2004.

A narrow Taisho-era shed in the northeast corner of the Fujiu estate in Kiryu, Gunma, used to overwinter bonsai, its west wall lined with sliding doors.

A Taisho-era bathhouse of 5 square meters behind the Fujiu main house in Kiryu, Gunma, with tuff stone lower walls, glass shoji and a tile-cased goemon iron bathtub.

Reinforced-concrete substation of 1919 in Tomioka, Gunma, that helped electrify the silk mill; German-style roughcast walls, arched windows, still in service.