Taishō

The Saijo Tsuru Brewery Tsunoya is a Taisho-era building in Saijo with a lookout third floor, Western-style rooms, a slate roof and the Tenpo well used for brewing.

The Sanada Family Residence Main House in Mihara is a 1910s merchant townhouse on the old Sanyo Road, with black plaster walls, projecting lattices and slat windows.

The largest of three Taisho-era warehouses at Sanyotsuru Shuzo in Saijo, Higashihiroshima. Registered in 2016, its 207 square metres of red pantile shape the street.

The smallest of three Taisho-era warehouses at Sanyotsuru Shuzo in Saijo, Higashihiroshima. Registered 2016, it has no stairs: the top floor opens off its neighbour.

A Taisho-era storehouse at Sanyotsuru Shuzo in Saijo, Higashihiroshima, registered in 2016. Ten ken long, half of it open to the roof, trusses made of round logs.

Concrete bell tower of 1922 in Shiwa, Higashihiroshima, built to hang a bell sent by emigrants in America; 7.8 metres high, it still sounds the time by siren.

The Takiguchi Family Residence Woodshed in Shobara, Hiroshima, is a Taisho-era shed with an open firewood bay, a pickling room and a silkworm loft upstairs.

Built around 1926 in Shobara, Hiroshima, the Takiguchi Guest Hall and Corridor pairs a tall irimoya-roofed hall with shachi tiles and a corridor split by a wall.

The Takiguchi Family Residence Main House in Shobara, Hiroshima, is a 1913 timber home with a koryo-beamed entrance and eight rooms split into public and private.

Built around 1913 in Shobara, Hiroshima, the Takiguchi Middle Gate and Side Wall is a log-built yakuimon gate and 12-metre wall dividing entrance court and garden.

The Takiguchi Family Residence Storehouse in Shobara, Hiroshima, is a Taisho-era store with an okiyane roof and white plaster walls, shaping the street view.

The Takiguchi Family Residence Barn in Shobara, Hiroshima, is a Taisho-era outbuilding that stabled the doctor's carriage horse and once held silkworm work.

Main house of 1920 of the Takemuraya inn on the Onomichi Channel, Hiroshima: T-shaped, with a bold multi-ridged street front and delicate bamboo-rich rooms inside.

Gate and wall of 1920 at the Takemuraya inn in Onomichi, Hiroshima: a copper-roofed munemon and a black-plastered wall with blind-fitted windows lining the street.

Former ryotei of about 1920 on the slope of Mount Senkoji in Onomichi, Hiroshima, in simple sukiya style with log rafters and an entrance on each floor; private.

Late-Taisho timber inn on the old Izumo road in Onomichi, Hiroshima, with every room facing the garden, sukiya rooms and three Western rooms for foreign seamen.

A 1925 concrete dam in Onomichi, Hiroshima, registered in 2004, built for the city's first waterworks and combining gravity and arch construction in a curved plan.

Facing the main house across the courtyard, the Hida storehouse rises as one open two-story volume, built from the outset to hold the mikan crop that defined Ōcho.

This Taishō gate-storehouse fronts the eastern lane of the Hida estate, joining a central gateway to storage rooms, its road-side base in sasarako weatherboarding.

The newest of the Hida estate's five registered buildings, this 1924 detached wing is a refined sukiya-style retreat, its porch posts on carved lion-dog stone plinths.