Taishō
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The Taishido at Minobusan Kuonji is a storehouse-style hall of 1912, plastered to the eaves above a stone base and linked to the veneration of Prince Shotoku.
The smallest of four listed structures at Yamagata Shrine in Kai City, this 1921 purification pavilion covers 5.1 square metres over a natural boulder basin.
At the southern entrance of Yamagata Shrine in Kai City stands a 1923 torii of reinforced concrete, 6.8 metres high and shaped like a wooden shinmei gateway.
The worship hall of Yamagata Shrine in Kai City, built in 1921, sets a stone-paved floor under a ceiling whose slope differs from the copper roof above it.
Built in 1921 at the north end of Yamagata Shrine in Kai City, this small shinmei-zukuri hall rests on a white plastered podium and was registered in 2016.
Yokoyama Sake Brewery Store in Nanbu, Yamanashi: a shop-house of about 1916 filling a triangular plot, with imitation-stone walls and a third floor added c. 1953.
A 1910 farmhouse in Nagahama, Shiga, with a six-room plan, a lacquered reception room facing an Edo-period garden and a silkworm loft upstairs. Registered in 2025.
A 1916 guest pavilion at the Akada house in Nagahama, Shiga, with connected tatami rooms, a three-mat study, a round window and a bark-covered red pine alcove post.
Main building of 1918 of the Omi Sanatorium in Omihachiman, Shiga, funded by Mary Tucker, with half-octagonal wings and wide windows for light and air.
Built around 1919 as part of a Tokyo villa and moved to Mount Hiei in 1928, Takeda Goichi's shoin-style guesthouse is usually closed but opens for temple events.
A 2.3-metre hira-karamon in the wall behind the Daishoin, built around 1919 in Tokyo and moved to Mount Hiei in 1928 with the house. Note its flower-lattice transom.
East of the worship hall at Otori Shrine in Koka, Shiga, this 1919 dance stage is one bay square, with slatted panels on three sides and a pine painted inside.
Built in 1919 southwest of the shrine buildings at Otori Shrine in Koka, Shiga, this 177 square metre office has a karahafu porch and a formal alcove room within.
Facing the kagura hall across the worship hall at Otori Shrine in Koka, Shiga, this 1919 hall for preparing offerings has an earth-floored entry and hinged shutters.
Built in 1919 before the main sanctuary of Otori Shrine in Koka, Shiga, this small hall doubles as a gate, with curved gables front and back and 66 m of fences.
The 1919 worship hall at Otori Shrine in Koka, Shiga, is open on all four sides, roofed in cypress bark and crowned inside by a double-coved coffered ceiling.
North of the offering hall at Otori Shrine in Koka, Shiga, this 1919 earthen storehouse keeps the mikoshi, with a deep plaster cornice and small round windows.
Designed by Kyoto architect Kameoka Suekichi, this 1919 vermilion gate at Otori Shrine in Koka, Shiga, reproduces medieval curves in its columns and rafters.
Built in 1924 at the gates of Taga Taisha in Shiga, this wooden inn sets an irimoya gable over a projecting porch. Registered in 2002 for the street it helps shape.
A two-storey earthen storehouse of about 1912 on the Kawasaki estate by the old Tokaido in Tehara, Ritto; the smallest of three, it adjoins the South Storehouse.