Taishō
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An early Taisho koji room at a Kashihara vinegar brewery in Nara, a wooden chamber nested in an earthen store, with a wall around a plot in the kimon direction.
An early Taisho rice-washing house at a Kashihara vinegar brewery in Nara, its plan stepping in around a well on the north side, now used as a storeroom.
An early Taisho filling house at the centre of a Kashihara vinegar brewery in Nara, with a small attendant's room, now used to brew the sake that becomes vinegar.
An early Taisho earthen store said to have held miso, on the northeast corner of a Kashihara vinegar brewery in Nara, with charred cedar skirting facing the street.
A long early Taisho rice store at a Kashihara vinegar brewery in Nara, converted from a gate building on an old boundary wall, still keeping its central passage.
An early Taisho pressing hall at a Kashihara vinegar brewery in Nara, with a sakabune vat for pressing mash, a thick-walled materials store and a shared interior.
Two early Taisho gates at a Kashihara vinegar brewery in Nara: a street nagayamon with lattice window and glass doors, and an inner gate with an osa-ranma transom.
The Minami Family Residence Wooden Fence in Gose, Nara, is a 24-meter roofed wall of 1912 on a cut-stone base, with bracketed eaves and street-side boarding.
The Minami Family Residence Gatehouse and Garden Gate in Gose, Nara, is a 1912 nagayamon with storerooms beside the gateway and a sliding gate in a short wall.
The Yamada Liquor Store teahouse zashiki is a Taisho sukiya-style guest wing hipped at one end and gabled at the other, open to the garden on both floors.
Joined to the main house beside the gate, the Yamada Liquor Store tea room has grey plaster walls, a hipped roof and wide shoji opening onto the garden, in 8.7 sq m.
Set back from the street wall, the Yamada Liquor Store garden gate is the Taisho entrance to Haseji Teahouse, with angled sleeve walls and a copper canopy.
Running 28 meters from the main house along the Hasedera approach, the Yamada Liquor Store wall pairs vertical boards with grey plaster and frames the garden gate.
Built in 1921 where the approach of Ichihara Shrine in Namerikawa turns to the hall, this stone second torii is a Nakayama type whose tie beam stops at the pillars.
Built around 1915 at Ichihara Shrine in Namerikawa, this worship hall runs four rooms in a row under hip-and-gable and gable roofs, a late work by Iwaki Shonojo.
The Kamidaki Power Station on the Joganji River in Toyama, built in 1924, is the lowest of three stations of the first prefectural power works, with three turbines.
A late-Taisho earthen storehouse on the Minatogawa at Himi, Toyama. Built as a bank rice store, later a depot for igusa rush matting. Its hoisting opening survives.
A Taisho-era guest wing of a Toyama drug merchant, 246 m², with a gable-front entrance, hinoki and zelkova rooms and a raised coffered ceiling, registered 1998.
A 77.1-metre Taisho-era roofed wall enclosing the garden of a Toyama drug merchant's estate, built on a stone base with board skirting, linking gate and house.
A Taisho-era yakuimon gate on a Toyama drug merchant's estate, set back from the street to lead guests to the Shinya wing, its gently curved roof matching the wing.