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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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Aoki Family Residence Warehouse
Tokushima 大正
Aoki Family Residence Warehouse

Aoki Family Residence Warehouse in Mima, Tokushima, is a long, low 1915 timber building that held stores and staff quarters along the estate's west edge.

Aoki Family Residence Storehouse No. 1
Tokushima 大正
Aoki Family Residence Storehouse No. 1

Aoki Family Residence Storehouse No. 1 in Mima, Tokushima, is a 1915 storehouse once used for indigo, with namako tile cladding on its road-facing north wall.

Aoki Family Residence Storehouse No. 2
Tokushima 大正
Aoki Family Residence Storehouse No. 2

Aoki Family Residence Storehouse No. 2 is an L-shaped 1915 storehouse at the north-west corner of a walled estate in Mima, Tokushima, used for indigo production.

Aoki Family Residence Earthen Wall
Tokushima 大正
Aoki Family Residence Earthen Wall

Aoki Family Residence Earthen Wall, built in 1915 in Mima, Tokushima, runs 44 m along the estate's north and east sides, topped by diagonal bricks under a coping.

Aoki Family Residence Barn
Tokushima 大正
Aoki Family Residence Barn

Aoki Family Residence Barn is a small 1915 building in Mima, Tokushima, with two earth-floored barn rooms and grey plaster walls that echo the main house.

Aoki Family Residence Gate
Tokushima 大正
Aoki Family Residence Gate

Aoki Family Residence Gate is a 1915 four-legged gate in Mima, Tokushima, once the garden route to the main rooms, with formal hongawara tiles on its road side.

Aoki Family Residence Brick Wall
Tokushima 大正
Aoki Family Residence Brick Wall

Aoki Family Residence Brick Wall, built in 1915 in Mima, Tokushima, runs 42 m along the estate's south side, climbing beside the ramp with buttresses outside.

Anrakuji Shoin
Tokushima 大正
Anrakuji Shoin

Built in 1925, the Anrakuji Shoin in Mima, Tokushima holds two matted rooms with alcoves and writing bays, carved transoms between them. Registered in 2009.

Imamiya Shrine Shinmon Gate and Mizugaki Fence
Tokushima 大正
Imamiya Shrine Shinmon Gate and Mizugaki Fence

The Imamiya Shrine Shinmon Gate and Mizugaki Fence in Miyoshi date from 1915: a 2.7 m gate and a 48 m fence on cut stone, latticed in diamonds at the front.

Imamiya Shrine Worship Hall
Tokushima 大正
Imamiya Shrine Worship Hall

The Imamiya Shrine Worship Hall in Miyoshi, Tokushima, is a 1915 one-bay hall open between its posts, with a coffered ceiling and lattice gable: a dance pavilion.

Imamiya Shrine Main Hall
Tokushima 大正
Imamiya Shrine Main Hall

The Imamiya Shrine Main Hall in Miyoshi, Tokushima, is a 6 m² nagare-zukuri hall of 1915 by Fukunaga Kakichi, framed with funahijiki brackets and inoko-sasu struts.

Kakimoto Family Barracks (Former Bando POW Camp)
Tokushima 大正
Kakimoto Family Barracks (Former Bando POW Camp)

A 1917 barrack of the Bando prisoner-of-war camp, where German prisoners lived, survives in Naruto, Tokushima, moved to the Daiku no Sato roadside station in 2006.

Former Kashino Family Residence
Tokushima 大正
Former Kashino Family Residence

The Kashino family house, a large lime merchant's home of 1925 of fine materials, was moved to Awa no Sato in Matsushige, Tokushima, and serves as a guest hall.

Former Kitamuro Hospital Stone Wall
Tokushima 大正
Former Kitamuro Hospital Stone Wall

A 64-meter retaining wall of the late Taisho era, built of green Awa blue stone from the Yoshino valley in a staggered line with interlocked sangi-zumi corners.

Former Kitamuro Hospital Clinic
Tokushima 大正
Former Kitamuro Hospital Clinic

Built in 1921 when a family of herbal doctors turned to Western medicine, this clinic keeps its carriage porch, exposed-frame walls and a recreated operating room.

Former Kitamuro Hospital Earthen Wall
Tokushima 大正
Former Kitamuro Hospital Earthen Wall

A 58-meter plastered earthen wall of the late Taisho era, folded inward at its south opening to lead visitors to the main house, with a washed-aggregate base.

Former Kitamuro Hospital Ward
Tokushima 大正
Former Kitamuro Hospital Ward

A single-storey inpatient ward of about 1921, linked to the clinic by a corridor, with 7 Western-style patient rooms facing north along a sunny south corridor.

Sadamitsu Theater
Tokushima 大正
Sadamitsu Theater

Sadamitsu Theater (Sadamitsu Gekijo) is a striking wooden playhouse built in 1932 in the heart of an old merchant town in western Tokushima. Originally a shibai-goya, it was converted to a cinema in 1949 and operated until 2011, ending an unbroken run as Tokushima's longest-running movie theater. Distinctive features include a copper-clad gabled roof, a grand arched façade, sajiki box seats around the perimeter, and original Showa-era advertisements still visible on the coffered ceiling. Registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property on August 6, 2025, the theater stands at the center of Sadamitsu's celebrated two-tiered udatsu townscape.

Jizo-Ji Temple 500 Arhats Hall
Tokushima 大正
Jizo-Ji Temple 500 Arhats Hall

The inner sanctuary of Jizoji in Tokushima, rebuilt in 1922 after a fire, sets three halls in a U-shape where some two hundred life-size wooden rakan stand.

Jizoji Temple Hojuin Front Gate and Wall
Tokushima 大正
Jizoji Temple Hojuin Front Gate and Wall

A Taisho gate 2.3 metres wide with a cloud-pierced transom and pocket lattice doors, and a copper-coped board wall running 34 metres along Hojuin's south edge.