Taishō
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The Sawada family house in Takaoka, Toyama, an early Taisho house moved from Inami in 1951, is well loved for its domed tower and Western front with Japanese rooms.
The Aizanso First Storehouse in Echizen, Fukui, is a corner storehouse of about 1916, closed to the street but for one door and plastered up under its eaves.
The Aizanso Main House in Echizen, Fukui, is a 1916 timber house with a tatami veranda on the garden and an upper floor facing Mount Hino, registered in 2017.
The Aizanso Second Storehouse in Echizen, Fukui, is a street-front storehouse of about 1916 with five-step plaster doors, now a crafts gallery. Registered in 2017.
The Aizanso Annex in Echizen, Fukui, begun around 1916 and enlarged in 1942, pairs an old room with a glazed corner and a later room with a round window.
The Aizanso Gate and Wall in Echizen, Fukui, dates from about 1916: a 1.8-metre gate with grouped rafters and a wall boarded outside and bark-faced within.
A tiny 1918 two-storey annex at Aoki Ranjado in Fukui with yellow plaster walls and an upstairs four-and-a-half-mat room that looks over a railing to the garden.
The largest building at the Iwano Heizaburo Paper Mill in Echizen, Fukui, this late-Taisho hall is where sheets are formed by nagashi-zuki and then pressed of water.
A late-Taisho earthen-walled storehouse at the Iwano Heizaburo Paper Mill in Echizen, Fukui, built to guard fine paper from fire and damp, with a formal room upstairs.
In Mikuni's old geisha quarter, Uoshiro joins four buildings: a Meiji townhouse, two earthen storehouses and a Taisho parlor, now a registered-heritage restaurant.
Built in 1914 for pilgrims bound for the Eiheiji monastery, this wooden station building kept its Western detailing and now opens free of charge as a community hall.
Built in 1914 at the Katsuyama terminus of Echizen Railway, this two-storey wooden station building sets painted boarding below white plaster on a Shakudani plinth.
A single-storey guest wing of 1919 to 1926 in Ono, Fukui, linked to the main house, with a slanted red-pine alcove post and a deep garden eave; registered 2018.
A reinforced-concrete bank of 1919 in Mikuni, Fukui, built for a kitamaebune merchant family. Yamada Shichigoro designed it. Free entry; closed Mondays.
The Saito Family Residence Middle Storehouse in Sabae, Fukui, is a 1921 storehouse with a plaster west face and a stone-look mortar east face. Registered 2016.
Sugihara Shoten Front Gate is a late Taisho yakuimon gate, 2.3 meters wide, that fronts a washi merchant's compound in Echizen, Fukui. Registered in 2023.
Sugihara Shoten Main House is a 1925 washi merchant's home in Echizen, Fukui: a gable-entry house with eight rooms and lacquered posts, registered in 2023.
Sugihara Shoten West Storehouse is a large 1917 plastered store in Echizen, Fukui, converted in 2018 into the Washiya gallery and shop, open by reservation.
Sugihara Shoten East Storehouse is a 1921 two-story store for washi products in Echizen, Fukui, clad in boards up to its upper floor along the street.
The Torihama Shuzo Shop and Brewery in Wakasa, Fukui, built in 1920, is a storehouse brewery whose great stepped roof pairs with the brick chimney by the street.