Taishō
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The Former Kurauchi Family Residence Tea Room in Chikujo, Fukuoka, is an 8-mat sencha room of 1919 with a bamboo alcove beam; its copper roof replaced original bark.
The Former Kurauchi Family Residence Middle Gate in Chikujo, Fukuoka, is a small 1921 gate of log posts and rafters leading from the entrance court into the garden.
The Former Kurauchi Family Residence Privy in Chikujo, Fukuoka, is a tiny 1921 outhouse by the entrance, the smallest of the 12, with log posts and a round window.
Built in 1917 beside the Moji brewery, this single-storey brick building stands on a floor raised 1.7 m over a basement, with pilasters, keystones and parapets.
Built in 1913 as the office of the Teikoku Beer brewery in Moji, this slag-brick building has a towered, symmetrical front and reopened in 2026 after repairs.
This 1913 red brick brewhouse in Moji made beer until 2000. Blocks of 2, 3, 4 and 7 storeys follow the brewing process, and the interior opens about twice a year.
This 1913 brick warehouse in Moji joins two gabled halls under timber queen-post trusses. Now a hall for hire, it was registered as a structure hard to reproduce.
Built in 1914 on rising ground in Tagawa, Fukuoka, this tiled house pairs a gabled two-storey block with a six-room single-storey wing. Registered in 2011.
Furukawa Mining raised this brick office on a wedge-shaped Wakamatsu corner in 1919. Twin turrets, tall paired windows, saved from demolition by 46,000 signatures.
The Jokyu Soy Sauce Chimney in Fukuoka is a brick stack built 19 meters tall in 1915 and cut to 9.5 meters by a 2005 quake. See its octagonal base and brickwork.
The Jofukuji Temple Detached Room in Okawa is a guest wing of about 1916 whose alcove juts into the corridor to make a seven-mat room. Registered Property in 2023.
The middle of three brick miso storehouses on a Yanagawa canal. French bond walls, two segmental arches its neighbours later copied, and a Japanese roof frame.
The chapel of the Lutheran church in Kurume, Fukuoka, an early brick work of 1918 by William Merrell Vories, opens a column-free space under scissor trusses.
Completed in 1923 for a sake-brewing family at Hikata in Ogori, Fukuoka, this registered house keeps a soaring earth-floored hall and a fifteen-mat room.
A small gate building of about 1915 next to the farm warehouse on the Minamikubota estate in Ukiha, Fukuoka, with a pair of board doors; smallest of eight.
A range of about 1915 on the Minamikubota estate in Ukiha, Fukuoka: side room, side gate and an L-shaped lumber shed, 23.5 meters long, plastered to the garden side.
A 1915 farmhouse of 427 square meters in Ukiha, Fukuoka, whose 18-mat main room has a flat cedar mirror ceiling; registered in 2012 and privately owned, not open.
A late Taisho storehouse for household goods on the Minamikubota estate in Ukiha, Fukuoka, with a full-length lean-to on its east side for firewood; registered 2012.
A small early Taisho miso room beside a water channel on the Minamikubota estate in Ukiha, Fukuoka, its door facing the main house's earthen floor; registered 2012.
Myokoji Temple Tamaya in Fukuoka, a 1926 concrete hall for memorial tablets whose round columns, boat brackets, cusped windows and arched ties copy timber forms.