Taishō
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Timber memorial hall of about 1915 from the Taki District Office in Taki, Mie, with an irregular hexagonal plan and a lion roof ornament; moved in 1978.
Brick warehouse of 1917 that held raw cotton for Toyobo's largest mill in Yokkaichi, Mie, with five gabled bays in a row; now restaurants in a shopping centre.
A long Taisho-era clay-walled storehouse in Yokkaichi, Mie, 8.5 by 3.5 ken, on a granite tortoiseshell base with a namako wall facing the house. Registered 2015.
A small Taisho-era clay-walled storehouse in Yokkaichi, Mie: 17 square meters on 2 floors, boarded below and plastered above, on granite stonework. Registered 2015.
Granite gateposts of about 1923 at a headman's estate in Yokkaichi, Mie: 4.0-meter main posts and 2.8-meter side posts with fret-carved capitals. Registered 2015.
The Main Building of the Former Ryokan Kokonoe in Iga, Mie, adapts c.1924 townhouses, adds a partly three-story 1943 wing, and was registered in 2018.
Kasetsuen, the 1922 detached reception wing of the Shimozu Residence in Isshinden, Tsu, has a raised alcove platform and a four-mat tea room, En'an. Listed 2014.
The outer waiting arbour of the Shimozu Residence in Tsu, Mie, covers only 8 square metres, pairs a wall bench with a free one, and is framed in logs. Listed 2014.
A 1912 storehouse behind the Tanaka main house in Hase, Matsusaka, with a refined sukiya-style room in front and a namako tile skirt kept for the south face alone.
A Taisho-era barn on the Tanaka compound in Hase, Matsusaka, set back from the old highway, with a plastered front, a lattice bay and a mushiko window upstairs.
A Taisho-era timber workshop at the Nagatani-en pottery in Iga, lit by a full row of south windows and still holding part of the machinery that powered its wheels.
The largest registered building at the Nagatani-en pottery in Iga: an L-shaped Taisho workshop of 233 square meters whose wide roof rests on king post trusses.
A 25-meter Meiji work shed on the lane at the Nagatani-en pottery in Iga, once used to store kiln firewood and test glazes, and now named for pottery classes.
The late Taisho office of the Nagatani-en pottery in Iga, set on a stone wall with big windows and an arched canopy. Registered in 2011 and open as a rest space.
A Taisho retirement house at the west end of the Nagatani-en pottery in Iga, with refined tatami rooms and a bay-windowed Western parlor beside the entrance.
Three gates and 106 meters of earthen wall around the residence of the Nagatani-en pottery in Iga, from a formal four-legged gate to a copper-roofed inner gate.
The detached wing of the Nakamori Residence in Iga, Mie, dates from early Taisho. Its alcove, shelving and writing bay show how a samurai house changed after 1868.
Furusato Pedestrian Tunnel (former Kaino Tunnel) in Kihoku, Mie: a 208-metre brick tunnel of 1914 on the old Kumano Road, with gas-lamp niches. Still walkable.
Red-brick raw cotton warehouse of 1923 in Matsusaka, Mie, about 74 metres long, now a heritage centre with a gallery that also keeps National Treasure haniwa.
Black-plastered storehouse built in 1916 as the Mie Village office archive, moved in 1976 and now a local museum in Yokkaichi; its ridge tiles bear the name Mie.