Taishō
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A 1926 board fence running 96 metres around the north and east of a Noda soy brewer's estate, coated in persimmon tannin under a pantiled coping. Seen from the road.
A two-storey earthen storehouse of 1926 on a Noda soy brewer's estate: 7.7 by 6.8 metres, plaster walls with raised pilasters and a truss roof. Private grounds.
A two-storey rice store of 1926, 11 by 5.5 metres, with an iron-lined full-height room, forming the front of a Noda soy brewer's estate with its Main Gate. Private.
An early Taisho timber shed, 25 metres long, on the estate of Noda's Mogi Shichizaemon soy brewers; its name recalls the fermenting stage of soy sauce. Private.
A slim 1926 pickle store, 13 by 3.3 metres, with an open-fronted lean-to and three cedar-lined rooms, where the board fence of a Noda soy brewer's estate begins.
A small gatekeeper's lodge of 1926 inside the gate of a Noda soy brewer's estate: a hipped roof, iron-sheet eaves, a six-mat room and an earthen entrance. Private.
The 1926 main house of Noda's Mogi Shichizaemon soy brewers: an entrance wing with guest and family wings, a carriage porch and bay-windowed parlour. Private home.
The 1926 front gate of a Noda soy brewer's estate: a single-bay yakuimon 2.7 metres wide with wing walls and a wicket door, visible from the road to the north.
A 1926 garden gate and fence dividing drive from garden at a Noda soy brewer's house: horsetail bamboo facing, shingle coping and a polished-log gate. Private.
A two-storey earthen storehouse of 1926, built to the same 7.7 by 6.8 metre plan as its twin and set at right angles to it on a Noda soy brewer's estate. Private.
Built in the Taisho era at Ueno in Katsuura, this single-storey hall spans 16 metres on king post trusses rather than a traditional frame. It was registered in 2008.
The Aoyama Building of 1925 in Osaka, a five-storey concrete block built with homes below and rental rooms above, is an early mid-rise urban dwelling.
The lattice fence of Abe Seimei Shrine in Osaka, built in 1924, runs 25 metres around the main hall, with diamond-section slats under a small copper roof.
The worship and offering hall of Abe Seimei Shrine in Osaka, built in 1924, is a neat revivalist hall with a railed veranda and an offering hall behind.
The main hall of Abe Seimei Shrine in Osaka, built in 1924 to designs by Yoshida Tanejiro, is a small nagare-style hall dressed in old-style carved details.
The Arai Building in Kitahama, Osaka, a former bank of 1922 by Kawai Kozo with a Doric front, now houses a confectioner's shop in its old double-height banking hall.
Located in Ikeda City, Osaka, the Ikeda Pia Maru Center (Former Ikeda Industrial Bank Head Office) is the oldest reinforced concrete building in the city, completed in November 1925 and designed by Ogasawara Hisashi (Shōkō). Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2004, this elegant Taishō-era bank now lives on as a coworking and startup incubation hub.
The street front of a Taisho villa in Tezukayama, Osaka: a bracket-arm gate topped by a tall tiled wall, lattice doors before board doors, and a 15-metre wall.
A late-Taisho villa in Tezukayama, Osaka, built for a Senba merchant. Japanese rooms below, a Western room with mantelpiece, sash windows and arched veranda above.
A rustic garden gate at a Taisho villa in Tezukayama, Osaka, built of knotted logs and bark-on cherry under a cedar-bark soffit, with a tiny waiting arbor beside it.