Taishō
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A sake brewer's 1917 shop and home near Dogo Onsen in Matsuyama, with exposed timbers, round Western windows and a truss above its upstairs hall; still in use today.
A Taisho-era thatched farmhouse moved in 1990 to the Myojogaoka cultural park in Kihoku, Ehime: two tatami rooms and an earthen floor, built of fine zelkova timber.
Forty-three granite steps of 1916 climbing to the Nio gate at Meisekiji in Seiyo, Ehime, most treads cut from a single stone, flanked by rough field-stone walls.
The Taisho-era reception hall at Meisekiji in Seiyo, Ehime, with a cusped-gable entrance platform, a forty-eight-mat room facing the garden and an attached tea room.
Built between 1912 and 1918 in Saijo, Ehime, the Mori Family Residence Detached Wing was retirement quarters, with a tea room and no formal lintel timbers.
The Yamauchi Family Residence Detached Wing of 1926 in Shikokuchuo, Ehime, sets eight rooms in two rows behind a projecting porch. Registered 2011; not open.
Yokotone Lock Gate in Inashiki, Ibaraki, is the last brick and stone lock built in Japan. Completed in 1921 and designated an Important Cultural Property in 2000.
A Taisho shop of storehouse construction in Yuki, Ibaraki. A road widening in 1934 cut a bay and a half from the front, leaving a gable meeting a half-hipped roof.
The Arakawa Family Residence Annex, a single-storey reception room of the early Taisho years, links the main house and the inner storehouse. It is not open.
A 19-meter concrete gravity weir of 1913 on the Okitagawa in Kitaibaraki, Ibaraki. Its right-angled intake gate turns the river into a conduit for the plant below.
An elliptical concrete tank of 1913 at Kitaibaraki, Ibaraki, where the open channel ends and the penstock begins. Two Stoney gates stand at its inlet.
A concrete desilting basin of 1913 below the intake weir at Kitaibaraki, Ibaraki. It measures 30 by 9 meters, and its side channel can flush its own sediment.
A 49-meter granite retaining wall of 1913 at Kitaibaraki, Ibaraki, built along the penstock between head tank and generating hall to hold the slope steady.
A single-storey concrete generating hall of 1913 beside the Okitagawa at Kitaibaraki, Ibaraki. Arched windows line its long wall, round ones the gables.
A 107-meter open channel of 1913 taking surplus water from the settling basin down to the Okitagawa at Kitaibaraki, Ibaraki. Its walls are diagonally coursed stone.
A 1922 two-storey dental clinic in Chikusei, Ibaraki, registered in 1999, rebuilt after a fire with timber clad in wire-mesh concrete, and still in use as a clinic.
A 1926 townhouse on Makabe's old jinya street in Sakuragawa, Ibaraki. Entered from the gable end, boarded in sasarako siding, with high upper eaves. Registered 2002.
A brewer's merchant house of 1912 in Isohama, Oarai, moved here in 1926. Deep dashigeta eaves shade the west and south of a near-square plan. Registered in 2006.
The Omori Family Residence Stone Storehouse in Makabe, Ibaraki, is a gable-entered store of 1917 with granite below and plaster above, registered in 2004.
The Omori Family Residence Main House in Makabe, Ibaraki, is an early Taisho shop and dwelling of a silk-reeling family, registered in 2004 and viewed from the road.