Taishō

Early Taisho timber building at the Kanemitsu brewery in Kurose, Higashihiroshima, part of a dwelling converted into a bottling house, with white plaster walls.

Former bank office of 1921 in Kake, Akiota, Hiroshima: a single-storey timber building given pent roofs and plastered eaves to look like a two-storey town house.

East of the storehouses stands this square Taisho brick chimney, about 17.7 metres tall and laid in English bond, kept as a landmark on the Saijo sake street.

This Taisho earthen-walled block links the main house with the storehouses and now works as a store, its masonry recording the layout of the young Kamoizumi brewery.

This large Taisho storehouse divides into East and Middle halves across a ground-floor passage, its white great-walls and red tile defining the Saijo brewery street.

Joining the passage on the west, this late-Taisho storehouse was refaced with namako-kabe under Shigemori Mirei's direction as the backdrop to the New Zashiki garden.

Early Taisho L-shaped brewhouse of 918 sq m behind Kamotsuru's No. 2 front wing in Saijo, its upper floor one room; the only listing registered as hard to reproduce.

Early Taisho brick chimney west of Kamotsuru's No. 3 Brewhouse in Saijo: 23.4 m of English bond, tallest of the four, lettered for the third brewery on steel bands.

Late Taisho brewhouse of 1,099 sq m at the north end of Kamotsuru's site in Saijo, largest of the 19, with namako tilework and a steam vent; it closed in 1995.

Late Taisho well outside Kamotsuru's No. 4 Brewhouse in Saijo: a low hexagonal cut-stone curb over a round shaft under a well roof; the largest of four wells.

Late Taisho brick chimney beside Kamotsuru's No. 4 Brewhouse in Saijo: 22 m of English bond with a corbelled crown, lettered for the fourth brewery; twin of No. 3.

The main house of the Former Fukui Family Residence in Onomichi joins a hipped east wing of 1912 and a west wing of 1927, finished in sukiya style with prized woods.

The storehouse of the Former Fukui Family Residence in Onomichi, built about 1912, is a plastered 2-storey kura with drip tiles, joined to the main house.

Kirei Sake Brewery No. 1 Storehouse Chimney is a square Taisho-era brick chimney 24 metres tall in Saijo, laid in the English bond seen across the town's breweries.

Kirei Sake Brewery No. 5 Storehouse is a Taisho-era brewhouse in Saijo whose north wing lines the lane with white plaster above notched-batten boarding under tiles.

Kirei Sake Brewery Western-Style Building is an 18-square-metre Taisho parlour in Saijo, moved by hikiya around 1955, with sash windows beneath a clipped-gable roof.

Early Taisho annex at Koishiki in Fuchu, Hiroshima: 26 square meters of sukiya design with round and crescent windows, black plaster and bark-covered lattices.

Early Taisho annex at Koishiki in Fuchu, Hiroshima, registered for polished sukiya work: a prized-timber alcove, lath-lined eaves and arched lattice windows.

Late Taisho annex behind the Koishiki main house in Fuchu, Hiroshima: a 107-square-meter shoin-style building with an L-shaped roof, and the one annex for rent.

The Saijo Tsuru Brewery Shuhogura Chimney is a Taisho-era square brick stack 19 meters tall that carries smoke by flue from the rice-steaming room in Saijo.