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3,054 total Taishō Period 1912 – 1926
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Nagao Hachiman Shrine Torii
Yamaguchi 大正
Nagao Hachiman Shrine Torii

Nagao Hachiman Shrine Torii on Suo-Oshima, Yamaguchi: a stone myojin torii of 1915, 6.9 metres high, with curved lintels and a carved plaque bearing the shrine name.

Nagao Hachiman Shrine Worship Hall
Yamaguchi 大正
Nagao Hachiman Shrine Worship Hall

Nagao Hachiman Shrine Worship Hall on Suo-Oshima, Yamaguchi: a hip-and-gable hall of 1916 whose karahafu porch is crowded with openwork and fully carved figures.

Nagao Hachiman Shrine Waiting Hall
Yamaguchi 大正
Nagao Hachiman Shrine Waiting Hall

Nagao Hachiman Shrine Waiting Hall on Suo-Oshima: a 1916 tiled hall north of the middle hall, with an alcove room, linked to the middle hall by a covered passage.

Nagao Hachiman Shrine Main Hall
Yamaguchi 大正
Nagao Hachiman Shrine Main Hall

Nagao Hachiman Shrine Main Hall on Suo-Oshima: a three-bay nagare-style hall of 1916 with a bark roof, three-step brackets and fine carvings by local carpenters.

Nakano Family Residence Tea House
Yamaguchi 大正
Nakano Family Residence Tea House

The Nakano Family Residence Tea House in Nagato is a late Taisho four-and-a-half-mat tea room registered as a model of design, with a flame-headed window.

Nakano Family Residence Storehouse
Yamaguchi 大正
Nakano Family Residence Storehouse

The Nakano Family Residence Storehouse in Shimonoseki is a small two-storey Taisho-era storehouse with a gabled tile roof, the white accent of a thatched farmstead.

Nakano Family Residence Annex
Yamaguchi 大正
Nakano Family Residence Annex

The Nakano Family Residence Annex in Nagato is a late Taisho guest wing with a three-storey clapboard lookout tower added around 1929 and a fan-shaped ceiling.

Nakano Family Residence Gate and Wall
Yamaguchi 大正
Nakano Family Residence Gate and Wall

The Nakano Family Residence Gate and Wall in Nagato is a late Taisho yakuimon gate with a 36-metre tiled wall on a stone base, lining a side lane of the compound.

Hagi Station Building
Yamaguchi 大正
Hagi Station Building

Timber Western-style station of 1925 in Hagi, Yamaguchi, with a porch, restored in 1998; now a free museum on Hagi and the railway pioneer Inoue Masaru.

Hachiya Building (Former Shimonoseki Branch of Toyo Whaling)
Yamaguchi 大正
Hachiya Building (Former Shimonoseki Branch of Toyo Whaling)

Brick office of 1926, the Shimonoseki branch of Toyo Whaling on a headland over the Kanmon Strait, with geometric capitals; it recalls the city's whaling past.

Momoyama Water Metering Room
Yamaguchi 大正
Momoyama Water Metering Room

The Momoyama Water Metering Room in Ube, Yamaguchi, a small octagonal brick house of 1924, is known locally as the hexagon hall and once wore a pyramid roof.

Ryotei Takadai Large Banquet Hall
Yamaguchi 大正
Ryotei Takadai Large Banquet Hall

Registered in 2024, the 1921 banquet hall of Ryotei Takadai in Hagi opens to about one hundred tatami mats with no pillar, spanned by a hidden Western truss.

Ryotei Takadai Entrance and Corridor
Yamaguchi 大正
Ryotei Takadai Entrance and Corridor

Late Taisho work registered in 2024, the entrance of Ryotei Takadai in Hagi carries a carved strut above its beam, and a tatami corridor runs on to the banquet hall.

Ashiyasu Sabo Dam
Yamanashi 大正
Ashiyasu Sabo Dam

Sabo dam begun in 1916 on the Midai River in Minami-Alps, Yamanashi, Japan's first built with cement, later raised with an arch on its gravity base; 22.6 m high.

Shishidome Power Station Usobuki Waterway Outlet
Yamanashi 大正
Shishidome Power Station Usobuki Waterway Outlet

Stone outlet of 1918 in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi, where a hydro waterway from Lake Kawaguchi leaves a tunnel and runs downhill in an open channel to a power station.

Hirase Water Purification Plant Former Katayama Tunnel Upper Portal
Yamanashi 大正
Hirase Water Purification Plant Former Katayama Tunnel Upper Portal

The stone upper mouth, built in 1913, of the Katayama Tunnel that sent treated water from Kofu's Hirase plant to the city: an iron-doored portal 4.6 metres wide.

Hirase Water Purification Plant Former Katayama Tunnel Lower Portal
Yamanashi 大正
Hirase Water Purification Plant Former Katayama Tunnel Lower Portal

The town-side mouth of Kofu's Katayama Tunnel, completed in 1913: a plain stone portal with an arched iron door, a nameplate above and an iron main inside the rock.

Hirase Water Purification Plant Former Intake Gate
Yamanashi 大正
Hirase Water Purification Plant Former Intake Gate

A 1913 stone portal, 14.4 metres wide, where the Arakawa intake conduit entered the Hirase plant; the only one of six Hirase sites registered as a model of design.

Hirase Water Purification Plant Former Filter Bed Regulating Well
Yamanashi 大正
Hirase Water Purification Plant Former Filter Bed Regulating Well

A tiny round concrete well house of 1913 at Kofu's Hirase plant, where a valve set the pace of filtration; a pedimented door bears an inscription read right to left.

Hirase Water Purification Plant No. 2 Tunnel Upper Portal
Yamanashi 大正
Hirase Water Purification Plant No. 2 Tunnel Upper Portal

A 1913 granite gate at the head of the tunnel that carried Arakawa River water to Kofu's Hirase plant, with a four-character tablet and edokiri-style masonry.