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Browse Japan’s cultural heritage from the Taishō period (1912 – 1926). Filter by prefecture, type, and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.

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Kamebishi No. 12 Storehouse
Kagawa 大正
Kamebishi No. 12 Storehouse

The No. 12 warehouse at Kamebishi in Hikita, Kagawa is the smallest of the 18, marked by an asymmetric maneki roof, charred-cedar boards and drip tiles.

Kamebishi No.8 Storehouse
Kagawa 大正
Kamebishi No.8 Storehouse

The No. 8 warehouse at Kamebishi in Hikita, Kagawa is a long late-Taisho moromi store on granite footings, holding twenty square vats on the western plot.

Tsurumeikan of the Kawatsuru Sake Brewery (former bottling storehouse)
Kagawa 大正
Tsurumeikan of the Kawatsuru Sake Brewery (former bottling storehouse)

Kakumeikan, the former Bottling Storehouse at Kawatsuru in Kan-onji, Kagawa, is a single-storey wooden building of the Taisho era, now used as a concert hall.

Kawatsuru Museum of the Kawatsuru Sake Brewery (former rice storehouse)
Kagawa 大正
Kawatsuru Museum of the Kawatsuru Sake Brewery (former rice storehouse)

The Kawatsuru Museum at Kawatsuru brewery in Kan-onji, Kagawa, is a small Taisho-era earthen storehouse, relocated around 1955 and now showing the brewery's old tools.

Kawatsuru Sake Brewery Koji Storehouse
Kagawa 大正
Kawatsuru Sake Brewery Koji Storehouse

The Koji Storehouse at Kawatsuru Sake Brewery in Kan-onji, Kagawa, is a two-storey earthen building of 1914 whose upstairs koji room is still used to make koji today.

Kawatsuru Sake Brewery West Brewery
Kagawa 大正
Kawatsuru Sake Brewery West Brewery

The West Brewery at Kawatsuru in Kan-onji, Kagawa, is a large two-storey earthen storehouse of 1918, its long, window-lined west wall a landmark seen from the town.

Kawatsuru Sake Brewery Filter Warehouse
Kagawa 大正
Kawatsuru Sake Brewery Filter Warehouse

The Filtration Storehouse at Kawatsuru in Kan-onji, Kagawa, is a two-storey earthen building of 1914 whose matched eaves complete the brewery's north frontage.

Exhibition Hall of the Kannonji City Museum of Local History (former Mitoyo District Agricultural Association Experiment Station)
Kagawa 大正
Exhibition Hall of the Kannonji City Museum of Local History (former Mitoyo District Agricultural Association Experiment Station)

A 1914 single-room wooden hall in Kan-onji, Kagawa, lit from a raised monitor roof and framed with an exposed Western truss, with curved braces cut as an accent.

Main Building of the Kannonji City Museum of Local History (former Mitoyo District Agricultural Association Experiment Station)
Kagawa 大正
Main Building of the Kannonji City Museum of Local History (former Mitoyo District Agricultural Association Experiment Station)

Built in 1914 as a county agricultural experiment station in Kan-onji, Kagawa, this symmetrical wooden Western-style building now houses a cafe open to all.

Chicco Ishii Family Main Building
Kagawa 大正
Chicco Ishii Family Main Building

The 1912 main house of the Ishii soy estate in Noma, Shodoshima: an irimoya range with an earthen floor, raised rooms and black plaster walls of quiet dignity.

Kikkoishi Ishii Family Residence Storehouse
Kagawa 大正
Kikkoishi Ishii Family Residence Storehouse

A small 1915 earthen storehouse on the Ishii estate in Noma, Shodoshima: charred cedar, namako plaster and white eaves on a stone base, registered as hard to copy.

Chicco Ishii Family Residence Nagaya Gate
Kagawa 大正
Chicco Ishii Family Residence Nagaya Gate

The 1915 gatehouse of the Ishii estate in Noma, Shodoshima runs 17 metres by the main house, skirt roofs giving a half-loft look, called the core of the estate.

Former Goten Water Source Office
Kagawa 大正
Former Goten Water Source Office

The 1917 office of the Goten waterworks in Takamatsu, Kagawa, L-shaped and timber-built with an arched porch gable, now in the free water museum. Registered 1997.

Kinryo North Moromi Storehouse
Kagawa 大正
Kinryo North Moromi Storehouse

Taisho-era moromi storehouse 80 metres long at the Kinryo brewery on Shodoshima, Kagawa, its long boarded and plastered north wall lining the Umaki River road.

Kinryo Soy Sauce Storehouse
Kagawa 大正
Kinryo Soy Sauce Storehouse

Taisho-era storehouse at the Kinryo brewery on Shodoshima, once the koji mixing and machine rooms, with a long raised roof on king-post trusses; now partly a shop.

Kinryo Fujii Family Residence Main House
Kagawa 大正
Kinryo Fujii Family Residence Main House

House of about 1918 of the Fujii family, owners of the Kinryo soy sauce brewery on Shodoshima, with a projecting porch, ten-mat reception room and counting room.

Kinryo Fujii Family Residence Storehouse
Kagawa 大正
Kinryo Fujii Family Residence Storehouse

Storehouse of 1918 of the Fujii family at the Kinryo brewery on Shodoshima, a two-storey tiled store on a trapezoidal plan with plaster relief on its window hood.

Kinryo Fujii Family Residence Wall
Kagawa 大正
Kinryo Fujii Family Residence Wall

Walls of about 1918 and 1929 round the Fujii house at the Kinryo brewery on Shodoshima, 42 metres long: an earthen wall to the south and a brick wall by the road.

JR Kotohira Station Display Room No. 1
Kagawa 大正
JR Kotohira Station Display Room No. 1

Just south of the main building and facing west, this gabled tile-roofed hall began as Passenger Shelter No.3 for group travellers, later walled in as a display space.

JR Kotohira Station Bookstore
Kagawa 大正
JR Kotohira Station Bookstore

Built in 1922 as the gateway for pilgrims to Konpira Shrine, this wooden station keeps a gabled porch, half-round windows and circular maru-kin emblems on its eaves.