Taishō
大正Browse Japan’s cultural heritage from the Taishō period (1912 – 1926). Filter by prefecture, type, and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.
Myokoji Temple Main Hall in Fukuoka, a Soto Zen hall rebuilt in concrete in 1924 after a fire, its walls painted gray and white to mimic timber. Registered 2021.
A 1925 well shelter at the Yoshimura home in Fukuoka: four cedar-log posts leaning inward carry a gabled tile roof over a round concrete well. Registered 2021.
A 1925 retirement house in Fukuoka's old samurai quarter, its hip-and-gable roof ringed by eaves to look double, with a 10-mat shoin guest room. Registered 2021.
A small 1925 outbuilding at the Yoshimura home in Fukuoka holding a toilet and a wood-fired bath, its toilet door panels pierced with openwork pine and arrow motifs.
The Yoriguchi Bridge in Yame, Fukuoka, a two-span arch of welded tuff built in 1920 with village funds and local gifts, still carries traffic over the Hoshino River.
The front gate of Ryotei Kinnabe in Wakamatsu, Kitakyushu, built in about 1917, uses logs for its brackets and rafters and a glazed transom in a modern sukiya style.
Ryotei Kinnabe in Wakamatsu, Kitakyushu, founded in 1895, keeps a three-storey timber building of about 1917 with sukiya rooms and a black-plastered exterior.
The entrance wing of the Ryotei Sato villa in Ogori, Fukuoka, built in 1925, has a Western room with playful reliefs of tigers, lions and mermaids on its walls.
The hall wing of the Ryotei Sato villa in Ogori, Fukuoka, built in 1925, sets two tatami rooms in echelon, opened to the garden by glazed transom screens.
An early-Taisho storehouse on the Abe estate in Fukushima City, the only stone one among clay stores, with cut tuff walls, a stone band and a king post truss.
A Taisho-era four-room guest wing on the Abe estate in Fukushima City, once joined to the back of an earlier main house, with the estate's only copper roof.
The largest store on the Abe estate in Fukushima City: a late-Taisho clay storehouse with a brick-faced base, a 15-mat reception room and a clothing loft.
The Amano Family Residence Rice Storehouse, built in 1926 on the front stone wall of an Odaka estate, has namako walls and a roof frame of curved beams and a truss.
The Amano Family Residence Outdoor Toilet, a 5.6 m² outbuilding of the early Taisho era in Odaka, Minamisoma, has beams carrying a deep eave over a lath ceiling.
The Ueno Family Residence Detached House is a 1917 guest pavilion in Kitakata: a ten-mat room of rosewood, zelkova and persimmon, with painted doors and a bath.
Okunomatsu Sake Brewery Second-Grade Storehouse Middle Building, oldest on the Nihonmatsu site, is a Taisho koji house raised to two storeys on stone and brick.
The Former Kai Family Residence Inari Shrine is a late Taisho household shrine of just 1.6 m² in a Kitakata garden, built with the full brackets of a larger shrine.
The Former Kai Family Residence Rear Gate is a late Taisho yakuimon on the west side of a Kitakata brewer's estate, with a lattice transom and a coffered ceiling.
The Former Kai Family Residence Front Gate is a late Taisho yakuimon on Kitakata's Atsushio Kaido, hung with single-board keyaki doors and aligned with the shop.
The Former Kai Family Residence Main House is the 1923 home and office of a Kitakata brewer, with a counting room and tatami rooms set either side of a central hall.