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Browse Japan’s cultural heritage from the Taishō period (1912 – 1926). Filter by prefecture, type, and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.

3,054 total Taishō Period 1912 – 1926
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Inoue Sake Brewery Store and Main House
Oita 大正
Inoue Sake Brewery Store and Main House

Built in 1914 at Inoue Sake Brewery in Hita, Oita, this shop and home grew from a thatched single storey to two tiled floors in 1943, with a shikidai porch and doma.

Iwao Family Residence (Former Nihongan Pharmaceutical Works) Main House
Oita 大正
Iwao Family Residence (Former Nihongan Pharmaceutical Works) Main House

A late-Taisho townhouse in Hita, Oita, raised to three floors by an early Showa lookout, with a karahafu roof, a 24-mat hall and a roof garden. Registered in 2003.

Kasuga Shrine Worship Hall
Oita 大正
Kasuga Shrine Worship Hall

Kasuga Shrine Worship Hall in Bungotakada, Oita, is a long, open 1921 hall of the regional kairo type, with painted Edo-period carvings reused on its facade.

Kayashima Sake Brewery Back Gate
Oita 大正
Kayashima Sake Brewery Back Gate

Kayashima Sake Brewery Back Gate in Kunisaki, Oita, is a 1914 rear gate whose pair of brick posts survive, while its iron leaves, gabled roof and shutter came later.

Kayashima Sake Brewery Chimney
Oita 大正
Kayashima Sake Brewery Chimney

Kayashima Sake Brewery Chimney in Kunisaki, Oita, is an octagonal brick chimney of 1914 with iron bands, a local landmark; sources give its height as 17 m or 20 m.

Kayashima Sake Brewery Former Koji Room
Oita 大正
Kayashima Sake Brewery Former Koji Room

Kayashima Sake Brewery Former Koji Room in Kunisaki, Oita, is a board-clad 1915 koji room with a small gable vent, now used to age ginjo sake; registered in 1998.

Kayashima Sake Brewery Rice Storehouse
Oita 大正
Kayashima Sake Brewery Rice Storehouse

Kayashima Sake Brewery Rice Storehouse in Kunisaki, Oita, is a 1916 plastered storehouse on the road with board-clad lower walls, the brewery's face with chimney.

Kayashima Sake Brewery Brewing Storehouse
Oita 大正
Kayashima Sake Brewery Brewing Storehouse

Kayashima Sake Brewery Brewing Storehouse in Kunisaki, Oita, is the site's largest building, a two-storey hall of 1914 with a truss roof under a great hipped roof.

Kayashima Sake Brewery Nakagura (Pressing House)
Oita 大正
Kayashima Sake Brewery Nakagura (Pressing House)

Kayashima Sake Brewery Nakagura in Kunisaki, Oita, is a 1915 pressing house 4 by 26 ken, roofed with king post trusses and clad in boards like the brewing hall.

Kayashima Sake Brewery Gate Storehouse
Oita 大正
Kayashima Sake Brewery Gate Storehouse

Kayashima Sake Brewery Gate Storehouse in Kunisaki, Oita, is a 1916 timber gateway and storeroom attached to the rice storehouse, with exposed posts and wainscot.

Jodoji Temple North Gate
Oita 大正
Jodoji Temple North Gate

The Jodoji Temple North Gate in Oita, built in 1925, is a gabled four-legged gate with shachi on its ridge and an unusual plate block under its head beam.

Taketa Branch of the Taketa City Community Hall (former Ichimiro)
Oita 大正
Taketa Branch of the Taketa City Community Hall (former Ichimiro)

Built around 1913 as the Ichimiro restaurant beside the Inaba River in Taketa, Oita, this wooden hall keeps tatami rooms below and a staged banquet room above.

Chikushitei Shuoku
Oita 大正
Chikushitei Shuoku

The main building of Chikushitei in Nakatsu, Oita, built in 1914 and extended in 1922, wraps two courtyards in a closed ring plan and holds a 52-mat hall upstairs.

Chikushitei Hanare
Oita 大正
Chikushitei Hanare

The detached wing of Chikushitei in Nakatsu, Oita, sits across a water channel behind the main house: three late-Taisho volumes, each alcove built differently.

Hisatsune Family Residence Rear Gate
Oita 大正
Hisatsune Family Residence Rear Gate

A small 1924 ridge gate on the west side of the Hisatsune estate at Nakatsu, Oita, 2 metres wide, with two stone steps outside and brick walls running off each side.

Hisatsune Family Residence Chimney
Oita 大正
Hisatsune Family Residence Chimney

A 1924 slag brick chimney wedged between two buildings on the Hisatsune estate at Nakatsu, Oita. It served the bathhouse of the living quarters and tapers upward.

Hisatsune Family Residence Inner Parlor
Oita 大正
Hisatsune Family Residence Inner Parlor

The only one of 15 structures on this Nakatsu estate registered as a model of design. Built in 1924, its 190 square metre plan carries three stepped roofs.

Hisatsune Family Residence North Wall
Oita 大正
Hisatsune Family Residence North Wall

A 1924 brick boundary wall enclosing the north west corner of the Hisatsune estate at Nakatsu, Oita, on a rusticated granite foundation under a stone coping.

Hisatsune Family Residence Guest Wing
Oita 大正
Hisatsune Family Residence Guest Wing

This 1924 reception building on the Hisatsune estate at Nakatsu turns an L in plan, with gable faces south and east. Its shoin rooms use figured timber.

Hisatsune Family Residence Water Tower
Oita 大正
Hisatsune Family Residence Water Tower

A 1924 brick water tower on the Hisatsune estate at Nakatsu, Oita. Slag brick a single leaf thick carries a tank near the top, capped by a small copper roof.