Taishō

Built in 1917 on the western shore of Yuge Island in Kamijima Town, Ehime Prefecture, this two-story wooden home is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property of Japan. With its iri-moya tiled roof and tsushi-nikai second floor, it inherits the architectural traditions of folk dwellings of the Seto Inland Sea islands. Together with the property's storehouse and gate, it preserves the historic streetscape of an island port town.

Discover the Kami-Yuge Tasaka Family Residence Storehouse on Yuge Island, Ehime—a 1917 dozō-style earthen-walled warehouse and Registered Tangible Cultural Property that preserves the traditional townhouse landscape of a Seto Inland Sea port settlement.

Built in 1917 in the port settlement of Kami-Yuge on Yuge Island in the Seto Inland Sea, this gabled tile-roofed gate and earthen wall preserve the streetscape of an early 20th-century island town. Together with the residence's main house and storehouse, they were registered as Tangible Cultural Properties in 2019.

Built in 1925 by a descendant of Ozu's last lord inside the castle's third enclosure, the Former Kato Family Residence Main House is glazed on three sides upstairs.

A late-Taisho retirement house beside the Shimohaga main house in Uchiko, its timber chosen room by room, with figured wood for the alcove posts. Registered 2007.

In Matsuyama's old port of Mitsuhama, this late-Taisho merchant house sets Western scrollwork against a lattice front and a ceramic transom within. Now a cafe.

A clay-walled storehouse of 1918 in Hashihama, Imabari, standing on a cut-stone plinth, its clay door framed in granite and its roof carried on a king post truss.

A tiled timber wall of 1918 running 28 meters along a street in Hashihama, Imabari, boarded below and clay-rendered above. Visible from the road at any time.

A guest wing of 1918 in Hashihama, Imabari, with paintings by Ochi Shokan on its sliding doors and glazed screens of Taisho blown glass facing the garden.

Built in 1916 in Hashihama, Imabari, this wing of 344 square meters is crossed by an earthen passage and holds a kitchen and a deep well lined with cut stone.

A merchant shop of 1918 on the main street of Hashihama in Imabari, with a low half storey, a projecting lattice front and stone steps raised against storm surge.

A retirement house of 1918 in Hashihama, Imabari, L-shaped in plan, its four-and-a-half-mat tea room lit by unusually large glazed sliding screens on two sides.

A two-storey outbuilding on the shrine approach in Dogo, Matsuyama, built about 1914 to hold medicines and later refaced as a shop. Its street windows are false.

Sadamisaki Lighthouse marks Shikoku's western tip in Ikata, Ehime. Built of reinforced concrete in 1918, octagonal in plan and still in service. Registered in 2017.

A Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Uwajima, Ehime: a 1911 soy sauce merchant's house on a former retainer's plot, with symmetrical lattice windows.

Masaki Honten Meeting Room, Boiler Room and Chimney in Matsuno, Ehime, fills the inner corner of two brewery halls, with a brick chimney rising 14 meters above it.

Masaki Honten Draft Sake Warehouse of 1924 in Matsuno, Ehime, spans four ken on a king post truss and takes steady daylight through windows set in its north wall.

Masaki Honten Brewing Warehouse, built in Matsuno, Ehime in 1918, is a single hall 4 meters high, with two rows of polished cedar posts carrying the floor above.

Masaki Honten Storage Warehouse in Matsuno, Ehime, is a 1920s sake store with steel roof beams over one undivided room and a long plastered wall facing the lane.

A 317 m brick tunnel of 1917 on the old road between Uwa and Mikame in Seiyo, Ehime, with stone-and-brick portals; funded largely by Mikame village and still in use.