Taishō

Raised in 1923 on a summit at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this timber pagoda carries triple-stepped brackets and draws business people praying against insolvency.

Joined to the great kitchen wing at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this late Taisho guest building of 524 square metres sets two tiled ranges side by side.

Attached to the Main Hall at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this duty room of about 1915 carries the corridor that ties the hall to the kitchen wing beside it.

Facing east on a hillside at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this hall of about 1915 opens its rear bay to look directly at the small shrine sheltered behind it.

Standing on a cobbled platform before the Main Hall at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this belfry of about 1922 flares outward at its base and opens above.

Facing west beside the Main Hall at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this long early Taisho kitchen wing of 513 square metres fronts an undulating gabled porch.

Attached to the Main Hall at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this 1915 entrance for honoured guests carries a curved tiled roof and a chrysanthemum crest.

Built in 1915 at the centre of Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this six-room abbot's hall covers 735 square metres, with a projecting veranda and a broad pantiled roof.

Standing on the banks of the Matsukawa River in Ito, Shizuoka, Ryokan Inaba is a three-story wooden hot spring inn built in the late Taisho era and registered as a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan in 1998. Famous for its dome-shaped tower nicknamed the 'aburazashi,' polished zelkova floors, a 53-tatami great hall, and tanuki-shaped bath spouts, it now welcomes travelers as the heritage guesthouse K's House Ito Onsen.

The Asanogawa Bridge in Kanazawa is a three-arch reinforced concrete bridge of 1922, 55 metres long, with roughcast spandrels and granite cutwaters at its piers.

The Asanogawa Bridge Fire Watchtower at the north end of the bridge in Kanazawa is the city's oldest, a steel tower of 1924 on a triangular plan, 11 metres tall.

Built in 1922 as an army commander's villa by Kenrokuen, this Kanazawa house shows a different face on each side and opens free beside a conservation studio.

Built in 1916 in Kanazawa's Ishibiki quarter, this small former clinic is a timber building disguised as Western stone, with a scored mortar front and pilasters.

In Kanazawa, a 1916 wooden townhouse stands behind a former clinic, its plan separating patient and family routes, an early mark of modern urban living in Japan.

In Kanazawa's Ishibiki, the Ueno Family Storehouse is a small 1916 dozo with white-plastered walls and a placed tiled roof, a cultural property near Kenrokuen.

Built in the Taisho era at Zorokuen in Kaga, this 54-square-metre rice store places a covering roof over two adjoining storehouses to close the street frontage.

Built in 1920 beside Storehouse 3 at Zorokuen in Kaga, this plain 25-square-metre single-storey store held fishing and funeral gear behind boarded walls.

Built in the Taisho era between Storehouses 5 and 7 at Zorokuen in Kaga, this 36-square-metre store sets sliding doors, plaster and battened boards on one face.

Built in 1920 on the eastern edge of Zorokuen in Kaga, this 37-square-metre building held servants' quarters and a charcoal store behind a short wing wall.

Built in the Taisho era beside the entrance of the main house at Zorokuen in Kaga, this 1.8-metre gate divides the inner grounds behind black plastered walls.