Taishō

A dozo storehouse at the Takeshige brewery in Motai, added north of the No. 3 Storehouse and dated by an ink inscription on its ridge beam to March 1922.

A Taisho-era brick cistern in English bond at the Takeshige brewery in Motai, divided for household and brewing water and valued as a mark of the brewery's modernisation.

A Taisho-era four-and-a-half-mat tea room in the corner of a Nagano sake brewer's retirement quarters, plastered like a storehouse to resemble a small castle turret.

A Taisho-era two-storey retirement house on a stone-walled terrace at the corner of a Nagano brewer's estate, reached by a stepped corridor through the west cellar.

A Taisho-era retaining wall of tortoise-shell and herringbone masonry topped by a white plastered fence, enclosing three sides of a Nagano brewer's retirement plot.

A two-storey earthen fermentation cellar of 185 square metres behind the No. 2 cellar at a Nagano brewery, dated to 30 April 1917 by an ink inscription on its beam.

Nakazawa Tokei Honten on Nagano's Zenkoji approach is a timber building of 1924 whose washed-aggregate render imitates stone. It is still a working clock shop.

The Nagano Meijo Office, a 1916 timber building at a Chikuma sake brewery, greets customers with a curved gable porch and hides grey plaster and zelkova upstairs.

The Nagano Meijo South Storehouse, a 1921 bottling house at a Chikuma sake brewery, wraps an L-shaped plan around a brick chimney and spans a wide hall on log beams.

An outdoor hot spring pool of 1923 at Nakabusa Onsen in Azumino, walled in four courses of local Ariake granite, still filled for walking baths each summer.

A Taisho-era munamon gate and fence in Azumino, Nagano, linking the main house to the front storehouse and dividing forecourt from inner yard, a Chushin pattern.

The Hatakoshi Family Residence Middle Gate in Matsumoto, Nagano, is a Taisho-era roofed gate with solid board doors, closing off the garden of the reception rooms.

The Hatakoshi Family Residence Gate in Matsumoto, Nagano, is a Taisho-era roofed gate with latticed doors, set between the formal forecourt and the storehouses.

West of the inner wing at the ryokan Hanaya, the Hanaya Hotel Great Inner Building of 1918 is a detached room of 54 square metres with its own hot-spring bath.

West of the No. 27 wing at the ryokan Hanaya, the Hanaya Hotel Inner Building of about 1920 was listed for its detailing, above all the cherry wood alcove lintel.

North of the entrance at the ryokan Hanaya, the Hanaya Hotel Castle Building of 1920 wraps both storeys in renji lattice windows under plastered eaves.

At the ryokan Hanaya, the Hanaya Hotel Office Building of 1918 holds the reception desk below and the dining hall above, its north end forming the inn's entrance.

A Taisho-era plastered storehouse east of the reception at Hanaya Hotel. The ground floor stored goods; the upper floor, beams left exposed, became a guest room.

Built in 1916, the main bathhouse sits west of the reception at Hanaya Hotel. A single-storey timber hall, its raised vent ridge draws off the steam of a busy bath.

A two-storey timber wing of about 1920 at Hanaya Hotel, with guest rooms below and an upper hall whose ceiling combines coffered panels with a flat mirrored expanse.