Taishō
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Built in the Taisho era in front of the main house at Zorokuen in Kaga, this gate is two capped posts with 6.9 metres of openwork and waist-high walling.
The Kuretake Bunko Main House in Hakusan, Ishikawa, is a 1928 retreat built by Kumada Gentaro, with plastered walls and a corner room with a white birch alcove post.
The Kuretake Bunko Stacks and Reading Room in Hakusan, Ishikawa, joins a c.1915 earthen book vault and a 1928 reading wing, with 14,000 books and a zelkova study.
The Gotokuan Annex in Daishoji, Kaga City, is a single six-mat room of 1919 with a crafted alcove, shelves and ceiling, facing a north garden. Registered 2005.
The Saigawa Bridge in Kanazawa, built in 1924 as a broad bridge for the planned tramways, is a steel curved-chord Warren truss 62 metres long on National Route 157.
This 1921 townhouse east of the Asano River doubles the brackets under its deep eave and turns its upstairs sitting room toward Mount Utatsu. Registered in 2004.
Shokoji's north storehouse in Hakusan, built in 1914, is the earliest of the temple's Taisho buildings, a small earthen dozo with black-plaster base and stone facing.
Shokoji's guest hall in Hakusan, built in 1918, is the temple's most ornate building, with a cusped entrance gable, gold-papered walls and mother-of-pearl transoms.
Shokoji's kuri in Hakusan, a two-storey priests' quarters of 1918, shows a decorated west gable of struts and boat brackets over weatherboarding, cited as a modern kuri.
Shokoji's zashiki wing in Hakusan, a two-storey timber building of 1918, holds formal rooms with alcoves over two floors and served as living and reception space.
Shokoji's tea house in Hakusan, built in 1918, gathers named rooms such as Ryoryo-an under one roof, a refined Taisho tea complex with a compact log-and-bamboo tea room.
Shokoji's south storehouse in Hakusan, an earthen dozo of 1918, frames its street-side windows in a torii-like outline to compose the townscape; a registered property.
Dry-laid without mortar at 2,100 metres in the Jinnosuke Valley on Mount Hakusan, this check dam of 1915 is the oldest of the thirteen here. It was listed in 2012.
Sojiji Temple Soin Zenetsuro Corridor, a 33 m Taisho-era walkway before the Daisodo in Wajima, collapsed in the 2024 quake; its timbers await rebuilding in 2032.
The Nishi Kenban Office of 1922 in Kanazawa, a geisha office and rehearsal hall south of the Saigawa Bridge, pairs a clapboarded Western wing with a Japanese hall.
Kosseikutsu in Kahoku, Ishikawa, the Western-style study of philosopher Nishida Kitaro built in 1923 and moved here in 1974, is a fine Taisho "culture house" room.
Built in 1921 at a Kaga sake brewer’s compound, this rice mill joins two clay stores of different widths under one roof. Registered Tangible Cultural Property.
Built in 1925 at a Kaga sake brewer’s compound, this broad store has six ground-floor posts carrying its upper floor. Registered Tangible Cultural Property.
A Taisho-era timber-framed stone store at a Kaga sake brewer’s compound, moved here in 1956, with one post under its ridge. Registered Tangible Cultural Property.
The Harukiya Clothing Store, located on the historic Ipponsugi-dori in Nanao City, Ishikawa Prefecture, is a two-story wooden Western-style building constructed in 1921 as the Western clothing department of a traditional kimono merchant. Featuring a mortar-plastered façade with semi-circular arched windows and classical cornices, it was registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2014. This elegant Taisho-era commercial building reflects the modernization of the port town of Nanao on the Noto Peninsula.