Taishō
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Beside the 1904 main house in Komatsushima, this Taisho kitchen house has a stone-paved cooking floor with stoves and, upstairs, servants' rooms divided by a void.
A Taisho wall and plank-doored gate running south from the main house entrance at Hojuin, Komatsushima, dividing the approach from the garden with bamboo lattice.
A Taisho-era earthen wall 25 metres long and 3.6 metres high closing the west side of Hojuin in Komatsushima, with board facing below and white plaster above.
A Taisho-era annex behind the 1904 main house in Komatsushima: bath and lavatory below, and upstairs a single room with a yakusugi cedar ceiling and papered walls.
A Taisho guest lavatory of 8.6 square metres off the main house veranda in Komatsushima, with a woven ajiro ceiling, a display shelf, log rafters and bamboo facing.
Takeyashiki-do Hall in Tsurugi, Tokushima, a pilgrimage hall of 1912, is station 35 of a local 88-temple route, a simple three-bay hall open on three sides.
The tahoto pagoda of Tatsueji, temple 19 of the Shikoku pilgrimage in Komatsushima, Tokushima, built in 1923, is a decorative modern pagoda with fan rafters.
The Tatsukawa Family Residence Annex is a Taisho house in Tsuji, built by a family head who came home after the tobacco monopoly; note its bracketed eaves.
Completed in 1926, this brick-and-granite well-house of barely 21 square metres held the intake of Tokushima's first modern water supply, matching the plant's design.
Completed in 1926, this is the only round building of the Sako plant's three registered structures, a cylindrical brick-and-granite well-house about 5.1 metres high.
Completed in 1926 for Tokushima's first modern water supply, this English-bond red-brick pump station became the prefecture's first registered cultural property.
A Taisho era thatched farmhouse at Kubo in Miyoshi City, standing on an Iya valley slope and registered in 2019 as part of the mountain village landscape.
A 9.4-metre brick chimney of around 1926 at the Nakawa Shoten brewery in Ikeda, Tokushima, registered in 2019, venting the boiler room and a landmark for the district.
The late Taisho office of the Nakawa Shoten brewery in Ikeda, Tokushima, registered in 2019, with scratch tile on its street front and Western-style office rooms.
The main storehouse of the Nakawa Shoten brewery in Ikeda, Tokushima, built around 1926 and registered in 2019, holding storage, koji room, boiler room and bottling.
Lodgings for the master brewer and team at the Nakawa Shoten brewery in Ikeda, Tokushima, built around 1926 and registered in 2019, with a kitchen range and tatami rooms.
Discover the Hyakunen-gura Smokestack in Miyoshi City, Tokushima — a 9.6-meter brick chimney built in 1922 that once served a local sake brewery. Inscribed with the historic brand name Gishi-shin, this Registered Tangible Cultural Property stands as a quiet witness to Japan's regional industrial heritage.
Standing at the confluence of the Yoshino and Iya rivers in Miyoshi City, Tokushima, the Hyakunengura Former Sake Brewery is a large wooden two-story building completed in 1922. Recognized as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2010, it is celebrated for its luminous, vertically-oriented interior and now serves as a venue for antique displays and live music events.
A circa-1923 building in Kitajima, Tokushima, pairing a gabled two-storey barn with a guest annex whose veranda ceiling has polished-log fan rafters. Listed 2016.
A late Taisho-era two-storey farm barn in Kitajima, Tokushima, 7.8 by 4.9 metres under pan-and-cover tiles, with a mixed sloping-beam roof frame. Registered in 2016.