Taishō
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A 1923 tile-capped earthen wall, 29 m long, on the east edge of the Kokawa house in Nara, its clay left at the middle coat, on a boulder base retaining the ground.
A 1923 2-storey earth-walled storehouse at the Kokawa house in Nara, 6.0 by 4.0 m, with a tiled gable roof, a lean-to on two sides and finely made window hoods.
A 1923 gatehouse row by the gate of the Kokawa house in Nara, once servants' rooms and a barn, with white plaster walls and a latticed bay window to the street.
Taisho wall at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: 14.3 metres on the north lane, with a plaster cornice; storehouse eaves behind form a second line. Registered 1998.
Taisho drying house at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: a long plastered building on the north lane where ink dries, with round windows for air. Registered 1998.
Early Taisho workshop at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: a long building, once the office, where finished ink is packed, on the south edge. Registered 1998.
Early Taisho office of Kobaien, ink maker since 1577, joined to the shop: a great door, a lattice-fronted office and a bay now a garage. Registered 1998.
Early Taisho main house of Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: a refined 2-storey home behind the shop, its plastered north gable lining the lane. Registered 1998.
Early Taisho wall at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: 9.5 metres of plaster and tall boarding on the north lane, made as one with the gables nearby. Registered 1998.
Early Taisho storehouse at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: two linked earthen wings used as one space for finished ink, beside the finishing room. Registered 1998.
Early Taisho building at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: a staff dining and changing room below a loft once used to dry ink sticks in wood ash. Registered 1998.
Early Taisho kitchen at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: a wing of the main house where the craftsmen ate, dividing the street side from the works. Registered 1998.
Street-front shop of Kobaien, Nara sumi ink maker since 1577: an early Taisho building with black plaster walls, a large signboard and deep eaves. Open on weekdays.
Early Taisho roofed wall at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: 17.0 metres long, linking shop and house at a right angle, with a neat east gateway. Registered 1998.
Taisho storehouse at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: 26 square metres, standing alone west of the parlor; boarded walls, 2 tiers of windows. Registered 1998.
Early Taisho storehouse at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: 55 square metres, with a lean-to, hooded windows and sliding fire doors. Registered in 1998.
Taisho drying house on the west edge of Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: boarded below, white plaster and small windows above, where ink dries. Registered 1998.
Early Taisho parlor at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: fine rooms behind a storehouse face, the only one of its 25 buildings registered as hard to reproduce.
Early Taisho storehouse at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577, on the passage from the great door: plastered walls, stepped cornice, kuramae porch. Registered 1998.
A rice store of around 1913 across the old village moat from the Shoji compound in Ando, Nara: a large plastered 2-storey building marking the family's expansion.