Taishō

A late Edo nagayamon gate on a Kusaka headman's estate in Higashiosaka, registered in 2024, with a wicketed door, an attendants' room and a barn on the east street.

A 1925 former fire station in Imabashi, Osaka, registered in 2007, with its fire engine garage opening and Tudor-arched windows, now an Italian restaurant.

Built in 1925, this shinkabe storehouse holds a rice store and a tile store. Its gabled roof mixes heavier tile to the south and lighter tile to the north.

This Taishō dozō east of the gate holds a rice store and a book store. Its library reflects the record-keeping of the family that later founded the museum.

The Konishi Choyokan Gate and Roofed Earthen Wall of 1914 runs 37 metres along a street in Abeno, Osaka, its eaves tiles crested and its ridge inlaid with a sumo.

The Taisho-era main house of a hill farmstead in Nakahata, Takatsuki: 17 metres long under a tiled irimoya roof, with mushiko-mado slots lighting its loft. Private.

A storehouse of 1925 on a Takatsuki hill farmstead. It continues the West Storehouse's wall on the stonework but rises a little higher and has ground-floor windows.

A Taisho-era gatehouse on a Takatsuki hill farmstead, with board doors, a wicket and a room for hired men, joined at its north end to an Edo-period storehouse.

A Taisho-era storehouse joined to the main house of a Takatsuki hill farmstead, set on a stone retaining wall, plastered white outside and lined with boards inside.

Built in the late Taisho era and registered in 2008, this detached wing of a Takatsuki mountain farmhouse sets two parallel rows of rooms, one formal, one sukiya.

A 1913 thatched hall in Kongoji's Honbo garden, Kawachinagano, on a site tied to three Northern Court emperors. Six rooms ring an 18-mat room; only one is coffered.

A Taisho-era walkway joining the Grand Entrance and Okuden in Kongoji's Honbo, Kawachinagano. Built of logs and bamboo, it has a bark roof and a thatched arbor.

A 19-meter wall of about 1921 with stone gateposts on the west side of a Sakai house, registered in 1999. Its street-side buttresses echo the pilasters of the villa.

A 2-storey brick building of about 1921 in Sakai's Hamadera suburb, said to reuse plans for an unbuilt hotel. Pilasters rise to the parapet on its street front.

The Waterworks Memorial Hall in Osaka, a brick pumping station of 1914 at the Kunijima purification plant, sets off its red brick with granite over the arch.

The Sumiyoshi Taisha North Side Approach Kaku Torii is a 1919 stone torii in Osaka copying the shrine's Edo square-pillared gate; it flanks the West Great Torii.

The Sumiyoshi Taisha Shinkan Hall in Osaka was built in 1915 for the Taisho Emperor's enthronement, with a throne room, gabled roofs and a cusped carriage porch.

The Sumiyoshi Taisha South Side Approach Kaku Torii is a 1919 square-pillared stone torii in Osaka; with its northern twin it flanks the shrine's West Great Torii.

A 1925 office and residential building in Semba, Osaka, registered in 2000, with a full-height patio courtyard ringed by galleries; now a popular tenant building.

A 1912 reception wing on the Yamamoto estate in Taishi, Osaka: hip-and-gable tiled roof, eight-mat shoin room with alcove, shelves and writing bay. Registered 2002.