Taishō

Taiyoshi Hyakuban, a Taisho-era building on a corner of Osaka's old Tobita quarter, has a karahafu entrance and themed rooms, one modelled on the Yomeimon gate.

The Takahashi Family Residence in Minoh, Osaka, a timber Western house of 1919 by the Minoh River, is a fine example of the guest houses of large Taisho-era homes.

Built around 1920 with public donations to display relics of Kusunoki Masashige, this plastered storehouse has four daylight windows on each side and central cases.

An early-Taisho nagaya gate on the Tanaka estate in Izumiotsu: a 1-bay service passage beside a barn with earth, tatami and plank floors. Not open to visitors.

Dobuike Textile Hall, a tiled concrete building of 1922 on a corner of Dobuike street in Osaka, keeps rounded corners and dentils beneath its deep eaves.

A Taisho-era one-bay gate at the Naniwa Shuzo brewers' home in Hannan, Osaka, set back from the street wall and leading guests across a forecourt to the annex.

The largest building at the Naniwa Shuzo brewery in Hannan, Osaka: a Taisho-era brewhouse 12 bays long whose raking and tie beams open up a long brewing floor.

A Taisho-era brewhouse at the Naniwa Shuzo brewery in Hannan, Osaka, clad to the eaves in charred boards and standing eave to eave with its neighbour on a back lane.

A Taisho-era brewhouse 16 bays long at the Naniwa Shuzo brewery in Hannan, Osaka, its charred-board gable facing the street and its roof on beams set every two bays.

The 1916 shop and home of the Naniwa Shuzo brewery in Hannan, Osaka: an 11-bay townhouse whose low upper floor and slatted mushiko windows hide modern living rooms.

A Taisho-era storehouse at the Naniwa Shuzo brewers' home in Hannan, Osaka, its sides plastered to mimic clapboards and its gable front set with namako-kabe tiles.

A Taisho-era guest wing at the Naniwa Shuzo brewers' home in Hannan, Osaka, pairing a fine zashiki with a Western parlour of tall windows and a plaster ceiling rose.

A Taisho-era tile-capped wall at the Naniwa Shuzo brewers' home in Hannan, Osaka, whose coping continues the main house eave line and keeps the street front whole.

The Nishiyama Family Residence Main House in Toyonaka is a 1912 ready-built home enlarged into an L-shaped house with a guest wing. Registered in 2018.

The 1912 main gate and 13-meter wall of the Nishiyama Family Residence face the street in Toyonaka: a bracket gate and charred-cedar wall, registered in 2018.

The Nishiyama Family Residence High Wall in Toyonaka runs 49 meters along the east side: an early Taisho charred-cedar wall with tiled coping, registered in 2007.

A small 1910s Western-style annex at the Nishiyama Family Residence in Toyonaka, remodeled in 1939 with Art Deco cut glass and its furniture. Registered in 2007.

The United Church of Christ in Japan Osaka Church, registered in 1996, is a red-brick Romanesque church by Vories, completed in 1922 and open after services.

A 1919 wooden chapel in Osaka's Sumiyoshi Ward that gained a 2-storey front and tower in 1931. Registered in 2005; look for the tower and the blocked round window.

Early Taisho gate and 8.8 m wall of a former cotton merchant's house in Yao, Osaka. The gate's side walls project in a U under one gabled roof. Registered in 2019.