Taishō

Steel girder bridge of 1912 on the Watarase Keikoku Railway at Ashio, Nikko, Tochigi, 14 metres long on granite abutments, among surviving Ashio mine company houses.

Steel girder bridge of 1912 on the Watarase Keikoku Railway at Ashio, Nikko, Tochigi, 14 metres long, near the stream where the Ashio copper mine is said to begin.

Steel truss bridge of 1912 over the Watarase River at Ashio, Nikko, Tochigi, 95 metres long, the Ashio Railway's longest, a rare Japanese-made Cooper truss.

Tsudo Station on the Watarase Keikoku Railway at Ashio, Nikko, Tochigi: a 1912 gateway station to the mining town, altered in 1936, with half-timbered gables.

Steel girder bridge of 1912 on the Watarase Keikoku Railway at Ashio, Nikko, Tochigi, 13 metres long, built over the entrance to the Tsudo ore mill of the mine.

Behind the main house stands a Taisho detached room: a six-mat guest space, a board-floored bay, and a corridor left open to the courtyard under deep eaves.

Built in 1919 at the Okahashi estate in Kashihara, Nara, the only storehouse linked to the main house by a corridor, with a truss roof and a hoisting hatch inside.

The 1917 main house of the Okahashi estate in Kashihara, Nara: 399 square metres, nine rooms in three rows, an earth-floored bay and a tea room off a corridor.

The largest of seven storehouses at the Okahashi estate in Kashihara, Nara: a Taisho rice store of 115 square metres with an exposed timber frame and truss roof.

A 1919 rice storehouse at the Okahashi estate in Kashihara, Nara, facing inward but forming the wall of the east lane, where its boarded back can be seen.

Built in 1917 with the main house, the principal storehouse of the Okahashi estate in Kashihara, Nara, has two storeys and rows of bracketed window hoods.

A 1922 gatehouse on the north side of a merchant estate in Kashihara, Nara: 19 metres of black plaster over a tiled namako-kabe base, with a stepped ridge line.

A 1921 reception wing in a merchant estate garden in Kashihara, Nara: two upper rooms ringed by a veranda, once said to view the Yamato Sanzan, and a tea room.

A 1922 wall wrapping the northeast corner of a merchant estate in Kashihara, Nara: 30 metres of timber and render on a stone footing, made to look like a tsuiji-bei.

An early Taisho roofed wall, 3.5 meters high, turning the southwest corner of a townhouse estate in Yagi, Kashihara, to enclose a small garden. Listed 2009.

An early Taisho gate and wall in a Yagi townhouse estate, Kashihara: white plaster to the service side, combed grey plaster and bamboo to the garden. Listed 2009.

An early Taisho sukiya-style parlor and three-mat tea room on an inner garden in a Yagi townhouse estate, Kashihara, with a round window and fretwork. Listed 2009.

A 1923 granite wall, 52 m long, on the south edge of the Kokawa house in Nara: cut stone 2 to 3 m high in 6 to 8 courses with slab coping, holding the raised plot.

The 1923 front gate of the Kokawa house in Nara: a zelkova yakuimon with a tiled roof and a 2.4 m opening, set behind a forecourt between stone-based sleeve walls.

A 1923 timber house in Takabatake, Nara, with three wings in a U and a hip-and-gable reception wing staggered toward the view. Registered in 2008 for its design.