Taishō
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A curving concrete tunnel of around 1926 on the Kominato Railway, 135 meters long, cast in place, its gradient changing from 1 in 88 to 1 in 330 midway.
A 55-metre wall of cut Bōshū stone from the early Taishō era along the old main street of Kanaya, Futtsu, 1.8 metres high in level courses. Seen from the road.
A tiny storehouse of around 1923 in Kamogawa that looks like plastered earth but is built of Ōya stone, at the end of the annex veranda. Registered; private.
A 1924 gate of mortared cobblestones at the Suzuki house in Tateyama, 3.2 metres high, its side walls curving to the street. Registered; clearly seen from the road.
A 1924 timber storehouse joined to the Suzuki house in Tateyama, its mortar walls scored to look like stone. Registered; private and barely visible from the street.
Built in 1924 above Tateyama Port, this Japanese-Western house pairs a pedimented porch with cork-floored rooms. Registered; private, so view it from the gate.
A reception wing of around 1923 in a Kamogawa brewer's compound: two tatami rooms opening onto a full-length veranda and earth-floored eave. Registered; not open.
A late-Taisho thatched farmhouse in Chikura, southern Boso, rebuilt after the 1923 quake. A registered property keeping the area's bamboo ridge and segai eaves.
Sunosaki Lighthouse, first lit in 1919 on Chiba's Bōsō Peninsula, is an early concrete tower. A line linking it to Tsurugizaki marks the legal edge of Tokyo Bay.
The well-house at the Someya residence dates to 1922. Under its open frame is a white-tiled brick well, and a plate reads Hoshinoi, the sake the family once brewed.
The bathhouse at the Someya residence dates to about 1923. A vent tops the ridge, and inside are bath, changing room and firebox. A bay window shows 1920s comfort.
The Takeda Family Residence in Ichihara, Chiba, a former clinic formed by joining two buildings in 1956, sets Japanese roofs over Western walls, a local landmark.
The student hall of Chiba Reimei Gakuen in Yachimata, Chiba, a timber assembly hall and dojo of 1924, has a dormered half-hipped roof on turnbuckle trusses.
A late Taisho iron-clad store joined to an early Showa office on a miso brewer's estate in Ichikawa, Chiba, its walls washed aggregate scored to look like stone.
Two-storey hipped-roof guest wing of about 1918 on Hakkaku Lake in Togane, the oldest of Hakkakutei's five buildings, visited by Crown Prince Tsugu-no-miya in 1946.
After the 1923 earthquake levelled his shop, a Tateyama hardware merchant rebuilt in 1924 from a relocated storehouse, now the area's last quake-era kura shop.
A small 1919 earthen storehouse at a soy sauce brewery in Futtsu, Chiba, built for the family's belongings, with a grid of vents in the upper floor against damp.
A 1925 reception wing at a Futtsu soy sauce brewery with prized timbers and fine joinery, the only one of nine buildings registered as hard to reproduce.
A 1920 kagura stage at a Noda soy brewer's household shrine, with a karahafu roof copied from the main hall and a carved tengu mask. Seen on the 10th of each month.
A c.1912 storehouse at the Mogi Shichiroemon soy-sauce brewers' estate in Noda, Chiba, set behind the main storehouse, with namako tile and white plaster walls.