Taishō
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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.
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.
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.
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 in Koka, Shiga: a 1925 concrete bank on the Soma road with Ionic columns, a heavy entablature and an arched window over the door.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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, built around 1917 southeast of the Main Hall, stacks a raised roof over a lean-to, framed by a great ginkgo, cherries and maples.