Taishō
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A Taisho merchant house in Shirakawa, Fukushima, built for the Fujiya miso and soy sauce brewery. Its glazed front on the old Oshu Highway was registered in 2024.
Built in 1917 on the Ginzan Kaido in Aizuwakamatsu, this two-storey plastered rice store keeps stepped kakego-nuri doors and an exposed roof frame. Registered 2025.
A 1918 storehouse in Aizuwakamatsu whose upper room is a formal tatami parlour with a black persimmon alcove pillar and fine kumiko screens. Registered in 2025.
A Taisho-era annex behind the Heishi main house in Fukushima City, joined by a corridor, whose upper room has an alcove, shelves and desk in palm and zelkova.
A 1913 two-storey storehouse in Fukushima City faced in stretcher-bond brick below and white plaster above, with traces of a tatami room still surviving inside.
A late Taisho storehouse for household goods in Kitakata, Fukushima: a concrete ground floor, with a doorway and three iron-shuttered windows on its north side.
A late Taisho storehouse for papers in Kitakata, Fukushima: boarded floors, a west anteroom, iron-shuttered windows and one pair of earthen doors on its front.
Facing the road at Higashiyama Onsen, this early Taisho wing is the largest of the inn's four listed buildings and holds the Kitsune-yu bath and an upstairs hall.
Built in the early Taisho years by a master carpenter of Aizuwakamatsu, this single-storey detached wing set the pattern that the rest of the inn followed.
A 1918 gate of solid zelkova on the street front of an estate in Narukawa, Fukushima City, 3.3 m wide, with a scroll-carved beam and single-board doors and wings.
A two-storey storehouse of 1914 in Narukawa, Fukushima City, with a stone base, tiled namako walls and black plaster, a corridor door and a tatami room upstairs.
The Wakana Family Residence Brick Zashiki Storehouse in Kitakata is a 1916 brick kura with arched windows and a lacquered zelkova parlor and tea room inside.
The Wakana Family Residence Three-Story Brick Storehouse in Kitakata is a 1916 brick kura of three floors on a 31-square-meter plan, with stone arched windows.
The Wakana Family Residence Brick Miso Storehouse in Kitakata is a 1921 stretcher-bond brick kura with two tile-trimmed arched doors, still used for miso.
Ijokaku in Maiko, Kobe, an octagonal pavilion of 1915 built by the merchant Wu Jintang and visited by Sun Yat-sen, is an early concrete-block building.
The 1925 storehouse and barn of the Arai estate in Suma, Kobe: a plastered store on a stone base and an earthen-floored barn under a stepped gabled roof.
The 1925 main house of the Arai estate above the Suma shore in Kobe. A refined two-storey wooden home with a central corridor and a formal sea-facing interior.
The rear hall of the Shotokuden at Ikarugadera in Taishi, Hyogo, built in 1916 to a design by Ito Heizaemon, is an octagonal hall under three tiers of varied roofs.
The middle hall of the Shotokuden at Ikarugadera in Taishi, Hyogo, built in 1916 to a design by Ito Heizaemon, links the front and rear halls of the temple.
A 1916 clothing storehouse behind a Himeji townhouse, 5.9 by 3.8 m, white plaster with a tiled namako dado on the door side only. Registered in 2014; not open.