Taishō

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.

A 1926 martial arts hall in Okazaki, Aichi, built in reinforced concrete after the 1923 quake. Secession detailing outside, a hybrid truss spanning the floor within.

A 1924 reinforced concrete martial arts hall on a working high school campus in Handa, Aichi. The oldest of its kind in the prefecture, restored in 2018.

The Back Room of the Former Isobe Family Residence stands beyond an inner courtyard in Inuyama, Aichi. A Taisho parlor with low eaves, registered in 2005.

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.

A townhouse of 1923 at the eastern edge of the Inuyama castle town in Aichi. Nine rooms fill its upper floor, which began as a low half storey called banko-nikai.

A 1918 reinforced concrete arch over the Tsuge River in Shinshiro City, Aichi. Its 30.3 metre span was then Japan's longest, and lattice columns carry the deck.

An earthen-walled cotton warehouse of about 1914 in Okada, Chita, sharing a continuous covered forespace with its neighbour and lit only from the north.

A packing workshop joined to a two-storey workers' dormitory, built about 1914 in Okada, Chita, and the largest of the six registered structures on the site.

The 1914 head office of a cotton company in Okada, Chita, finished in costly black plaster, crowned with crest tiles and moved to its present site in 1945.

A gate range of about 1914 wrapping two sides of a cotton company's grounds in Okada, Chita, holding storage sheds, a dining room, a bathroom and a kitchen.

A timber boundary wall of about 1914 in Okada, Chita, just 6.2 metres long, its tiled ridge stepping down in three stages to follow the falling ground.

A cotton storehouse of about 1914 in Okada, Chita, with thick earthen walls, a deep covered forespace across the front and windows only on the upper south face.

Rebuilt in 1913 on the site of the Okoshi post station inn wrecked by the Nobi earthquake of 1891, this Ichinomiya house and its rear parlor were registered in 2002.

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.