Taishō
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A Taisho gate and wall on the south street of a Susaki merchant's house: a zelkova bracket gate 1.8 meters wide, a tortoiseshell stone footing and adze-cut bars.
A two-story Taisho storehouse in Susaki: a reinforced concrete shell, timber truss roof, iron doors and white Tosa plaster walls, with an iron safe inside.
A one-story Taisho home in Susaki where a merchant family lived and hosted guests, roofed with split right- and left-hand tiles over a hinoki log eave beam.
A Taisho wall of cement blocks laid eleven courses high under Japanese tiles, running 8.2 meters north from a Susaki merchant's shop, with a wicket door and a shed.
Within the Kubo grounds in Yasuda, this Taisho river-stone wall staggers its vertical joints, keeps the horizontal courses level, and sets larger stones at its ends.
In the old Tosa town of Yasuda, this small Taisho-era storehouse of the Kubo merchant house wears lime-plaster walls and regional drip tiles above an iron-clad base.
Facing a back lane in Yasuda, this Taisho detached room of the Kubo house holds a six-mat guest chamber with an alcove, its iron-clad walls opening upstairs only.
On the south side of the Kubo shop-house in Yasuda, this modest 1.9-metre Taisho service gate, with a single mairado door, links the household to its garden and field.
A Taisho-era draper's shop and dwelling on a corner in Yasuda, Kochi, registered in 2007. Its vertically boarded gable end anchors the old coastal street.
At the southeast corner of a Tano plot in Kochi, a registered Taisho building puts a gate and a privy under one gabled roof, an arrangement rare in the district.
An early Taisho main house in Tano, Kochi, with a four-room grid plan, a formal shikidai step in the goshi tradition, and two courses of Tosa rain-shedding tiles.
Wooden study hall of the late Taisho era at Jokoji in Yasuda, Kochi, a small, calm building with a six-mat sukiya-style room, an anteroom and board verandas.
Reinforced-concrete gate of the late Taisho era at Jokoji in Yasuda, Kochi, with dentilled square posts, an iron segmental arch with a lamp and a matching side gate.
An early Taisho two-storey storehouse in Nahari, Kochi, its Tosa plaster walls banded with three rows of tile ledges and set beside a brick wall. Registered in 2000.
An early Taisho cooking building behind a former inn in Nahari, Kochi, with an earthen floor, a well and tatami seating in the local kamaya form. Registered 2000.
An early Taisho barn beside the courtyard of a former inn in Nahari, Kochi: a hipped building with eaves on three sides and a tatami room. Registered 2000.
An early Taisho privy at a former inn in Nahari, Kochi: a small hipped building of 3.6 square metres with four doors onto the courtyard. Registered 2000.
An early Taisho brick wall enclosing the back of a former inn in Nahari, Kochi: English bond, 29 courses and a roof, set against a white storehouse. Registered 2000.
A 1922 single-storey house in Nahari, Kochi: gabled roof, four-room plan, and gable ends of board, Tosa plaster and three rows of tile ledges. Registered in 2000.
A 39-square-metre Taisho storehouse in Kochi answering typhoon country with drip tiles, a ventilated set roof, and two-tone plaster. Registered in 2003 for design.