Taishō
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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 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 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, 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 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 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, built in 1915 in Mima, Tokushima, runs 42 m along the estate's south side, climbing beside the ramp with buttresses outside.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 (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.
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.
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.