Taishō
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A two-storey earthen storehouse at the Mori doctors' estate in Mano, Sado, clad in clapboard, with a plastered door and east windows and a glazed lean-to in front.
The Morohashi Family Residence Main House in Niigata City is a chumon-zukuri farmhouse of about 1921, plain outside but built with fine timber and old beams inside.
The Rengebuji Temple Mausoleum Shelter on Sado is a Taisho-era gabled building that protects the Toshogu and Taitokuin shrines, its once open front now latticed.
A Taisho-era tea room relocated around 1960 to become a 45-square-metre detached guest room, standing on a stone wall behind the main hall in Kashiwazaki, Niigata.
A small 1921 farm store on a stone wall above the old Aizu Kaido in Aga, Niigata, registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2024 for its role in the landscape.
A Taisho kura in Matsuo, Nagaoka, registered in 2007. A separate sheet-iron roof keeps the plaster dry, boarded screens block snow, and rice filled the ground floor.
The Yahiko Shrine Talisman Office in Niigata, a 1916 gabled building facing the ablution pavilion, has a gable end composed for those arriving by the east approach.
The Otoko Subsidiary Shrine at Yahiko Shrine, Niigata, fifth in a row of eight, honours the deity said to have built the shrine; it was rebuilt in 1916.
The Imayama Subsidiary Shrine at Yahiko Shrine, Niigata, third in a row of eight, was rebuilt in 1916 after the 1912 fire as a twin of the Otoko shrine.
Yokohama Port Opening Memorial Hall: a red-brick public hall of 1917 striped with granite, built by citizens' donations, with the "Jack" clock tower and domes.
A 1914 seaside villa in Hayama, Kanagawa, built for the Higashifushimi princely family to a design by Kigo Kozaburo, with a tower, Secessionist details and sunrooms.
Built in 1924 for a Fujisawa druggist, this shop-house moved to a farm in 1938 and to Seiganji temple in 2014. Registered in 2017, it now serves as a Buddhist hall.
A 1922 wooden villa above Isshiki beach, Hayama, built by constitution drafter Kaneko Kentaro after the imperial household took his seafront plot. Registered 2021.
A 1912 wooden Western-style villa beside Ōiso Station, registered in 2012 and thought to be Japan's earliest two-by-four house. It now runs as a restaurant.
The Former Kondo Residence in Fujisawa, a villa of 1925 by Endo Arata, a pupil of Frank Lloyd Wright, was moved from Tsujido and shows his horizontal style.
Yugyo-ji's Obankata is the formal reception building of the residential quarters. Its large carved irimoya porch served the head priest's departures. Built in 1913.
Reigenkaku in Hase, Kamakura, is a 1918 sukiya villa by Yamamoto Jotaro. Now a registered cultural property, it survived the 1923 earthquake and overlooks Yuigahama.
Seikantei, on the hill south of the Odawara Castle site, Kanagawa, is a house of the early Taisho era (1912–1925) with a staggered plan and sukiya interiors.
Built in 1920, the Sojiji Koshakudai is a 2-storey Zen kitchen hall with a bold carved gable, now the reception and home to a giant wooden Daikoku. Registered 2005.
Built around 1911, the Sojiji Koshokutsu Connecting Corridor links the Hokodo to the abbot's house, arching like a drum bridge over a path below. Registered in 2023.