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Browse Japan’s cultural heritage from the Taishō period (1912 – 1926). Filter by prefecture, type, and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.

3,054 total Taishō Period 1912 – 1926
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Kawasaki Mitsuo Family Residence South Storehouse
Shiga 大正
Kawasaki Mitsuo Family Residence South Storehouse

A 2-storey earthen storehouse of about 1912 by the old Tokaido in Tehara, Ritto, with a canopied west window; larger than the North Storehouse, its ridge sits lower.

Former Kitamura Clinic (Riken Residence) Well House
Shiga 大正
Former Kitamura Clinic (Riken Residence) Well House

A 2.4-square-meter well shelter from the 1920s in Nagahama, Shiga, open on all sides, with a well, a washing area and an old hook under the ridge beam.

Former Kitamura Clinic (Riken Residence) Garage
Shiga 大正
Former Kitamura Clinic (Riken Residence) Garage

A 1920s garage at a doctor's home in Nagahama, Shiga, with a hip-and-gable front, a lattice gable, a diagonal-barred glass transom and a plain gabled back.

Former Kitamura Clinic (Riken Residence) Consultation Building
Shiga 大正
Former Kitamura Clinic (Riken Residence) Consultation Building

A 1920s clinic wing in Nagahama, Shiga, keeping its reception counter and frosted glass in the exam room and dispensary, linking house and waiting room.

Former Shiga Bank Konan Branch
Shiga 大正
Former Shiga Bank Konan Branch

Former Shiga Bank Konan Branch in Koka, Shiga: a 1925 concrete bank on the Soma road with Ionic columns, a heavy entablature and an arched window over the door.

Former Joki Clinic Stable
Shiga 大正
Former Joki Clinic Stable

The Former Joki Clinic Stable in Maibara, Shiga, housed the horse a family of doctors used for house calls. Its hanging door has no threshold to trip a horse.

Former Joki Clinic East Storehouse
Shiga 大正
Former Joki Clinic East Storehouse

The Former Joki Clinic East Storehouse, built in 1915 in Maibara, Shiga, held a doctor's medical books. Its plaster walls bear the family crest and a relief dragon.

Former Tanaka Family Residence (Omi Shonin-Tei) Large Hall
Shiga 大正
Former Tanaka Family Residence (Omi Shonin-Tei) Large Hall

Built around 1919 by the Ōmi merchant Tanaka family, this great hall frames its garden through verandas and Taishō glass, and now serves the Ōmi Shōnintei restaurant.

Former Tanaka Family Residence (Omi Shonin Tei) North
Shiga 大正
Former Tanaka Family Residence (Omi Shonin Tei) North

This 1919 plaster storehouse stands at the northwest corner, with a boarded skirt, a separate roof over its core, and a notched eaves band, shaping the post-town street.

Former Tanaka Family Residence (Omi Shojintei) Tea Room
Shiga 大正
Former Tanaka Family Residence (Omi Shojintei) Tea Room

Built around 1919 by the Ōmi merchant Tanaka family, this eight-mat tea room works round bamboo and fine woods into its alcove, and now forms part of the Ōmi Shōnintei.

Former Tanaka Family Residence (Omi Merchant House) Main
Shiga 大正
Former Tanaka Family Residence (Omi Merchant House) Main

Built in 1919 for the Ōmi merchant Tanaka family, this two-storey timber house lays out grid-plan rooms open to the garden, and now houses the Ōmi Shōnintei restaurant.

Koizumi Family Residence Lower Privy and Middle Gate
Shiga 大正
Koizumi Family Residence Lower Privy and Middle Gate

The Koizumi Family Residence Lower Privy and Middle Gate, of about 1915, divide the front garden from the inner courtyard with fine timber worked in sukiya style.

Koizumi Family Residence Small Western Wing and Apprentices' Rooms
Shiga 大正
Koizumi Family Residence Small Western Wing and Apprentices' Rooms

The Koizumi Family Residence Small Western Wing and Apprentices' Rooms, of about 1909, pairs a Western room made from a privy with rooms for live-in apprentices.

Koizumi Family Residence New Zashiki Wing
Shiga 大正
Koizumi Family Residence New Zashiki Wing

The Koizumi Family Residence New Zashiki Wing is a Taisho-era reception wing with an eight-mat room, flush alcove and desk window, added as the merchant estate grew.

Saikyoji Temple Guest Hall Side Gate
Shiga 大正
Saikyoji Temple Guest Hall Side Gate

A Taisho-era hira-karamon gate in the fence south of the Guest Hall at Saikyoji in Otsu, 2.1 m wide with a cypress-bark roof and carved gable. Registered 2001.

Saikyoji Temple Founder's Hall Karamon Gate
Shiga 大正
Saikyoji Temple Founder's Hall Karamon Gate

A 1917 four-legged gate before Saikyoji's Founder's Hall in Otsu, with karahafu front and back, carved dragons and lions and long earthen walls. Registered 2001.

Saikyoji Temple Founder's Hall Side Gate
Shiga 大正
Saikyoji Temple Founder's Hall Side Gate

A 1917 hira-karamon gate on a raised base west of Saikyoji's Founder's Hall in Otsu, 3.0 m wide and plain, its large ridge strut the core of the design.

Saikyoji Temple Founder's Hall Water Pavilion
Shiga 大正
Saikyoji Temple Founder's Hall Water Pavilion

A hexagonal water pavilion of about 1917 facing the side gate in Saikyoji's Founder's Hall compound in Otsu, sheltering a lotus-shaped basin. Registered 2001.

Saikyoji Temple Shoin
Shiga 大正
Saikyoji Temple Shoin

A 1916 shoin hall facing the Guest Hall at Saikyoji in Otsu, built for the great 1917 service: 13 by 9 bays, four front and six rear rooms. Registered in 2001.

Saikyoji Temple Ossuary
Shiga 大正
Saikyoji Temple Ossuary

Saikyoji Temple Ossuary, built around 1917 southeast of the Main Hall, stacks a raised roof over a lean-to, framed by a great ginkgo, cherries and maples.