Taishō

An early Taisho ishiguro wall in Nahari, Kochi: 6 m of beach stones in a binding mix on a cut-stone base, locked by corner stones and capped with a small tiled roof.

An early Taisho ishiguro wall on a lane in Nahari, Kochi: 19 m of beach stone with a small tiled cap and, near its middle, a back door framed by a red brick arch.

An early Taisho ishiguro wall in Nahari, Kochi, running 19 m along the street with a turn. Its beach stones and tiled cap shape the townscape; seen from the road.

An eleven-metre brick chimney of the Taisho era at Amabuki Shuzo, Saga. Its hexagonal base and twin decorative bands mark the brewery from across the paddy fields.

A Taisho-era reinforced concrete storehouse cut into a hillside at Amabuki Shuzo, Saga. Still working as a cold store, it borrows its chill from the earth.

Iimori Sake Brewery No. 1 and No. 2 Storehouses in Kashima, Saga: a board-clad earthen store on a Japanese roof frame and a truss-roofed shed, registered in 2006.

Iimori Sake Brewery Chimney in Kashima, Saga, is a 9-meter brick stack of about 1921 with iron frames, still bearing an earlier label, Tama no Ka, on its north face.

Iimori Sake Brewery Koji Room in Kashima, Saga, is a late Taisho single-storey brick room for making koji, on a trapezoid plan with a truss-framed gabled tile roof.

Iimori Sake Brewery No. 3 Storehouse in Kashima, Saga, is a late Taisho earthen storehouse used to press and bottle sake, with a long west roof and a Showa lean-to.

Iimori Sake Brewery Main House in Kashima, Saga, is a late Taisho brewer's house on the Tara road, plastered over its posts in the east, posts exposed in the west.

The former Tanakamaru residence in Ushizu, Saga, built in the early Taisho era for a Kyushu business leader, hides a delicate sukiya interior behind its grand front.

An early Taishō pond fed by a channel on a Saga hill estate, held in U-shaped granite walls with a concrete footbridge, registered in 2024 for its fine stonework.

Early Taishō granite gateposts with edokiri corners and 55 meters of curving stone wall enclosing an old family estate in the hills of Saga City, registered in 2024.

Two brewhouses of 1920 and 1927 joined into a U-shaped plan of 955 square metres, with rows of posts and an open roof frame, at Koeigiku Sake Brewery in Ogi, Saga.

Koyanagi Sake Brewery Detached Annex, Ogi, Saga: a hip-and-gable guest wing of about 1921 on land bought to extend the site, joined to the late Edo main house.

Kanotei in Seikei Park, Taku, Saga: a 1924 wooden public hall given by coal baron Takatori Koreyoshi, with three 16-mat rooms under a broad hip-and-gable roof.

Takeya in Karatsu, Saga, is a wooden three-storey restaurant of 1923, registered in 1998. Guest rooms fill the upper floors, and the eel is grilled without steaming.

The Taisho-era Nakano Family Residence Water Tank in Tara, Saga: a small two-level brick tank that stored spring water and fed it by pressure to the estate.

Former pawnshop and house of 1925 in Karatsu, Saga, its upper pledge store sealed in mortar with copper-clad fittings against fire and theft; now a café.

A 1921 iron-clad storehouse on the west edge of Yano Sake Brewery in Kashima, Saga, sharing a wall with its neighbor; its store wing once housed brewers.