Taishō
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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.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 in Kunisaki, Oita, is a 1916 timber gateway and storeroom attached to the rice storehouse, with exposed posts and wainscot.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.