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Browse Japan’s cultural heritage from the Taishō period (1912 – 1926). Filter by prefecture, type, and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.

3,054 total Taishō Period 1912 – 1926
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Uohashi Family Residence Detached Room
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Uohashi Family Residence Detached Room

A guest wing of about 1916 behind a Himeji townhouse: hip-and-gable roof, veranda all round, a 10-mat room with kozama and kumiko transoms. Registered 2014; private.

Uohashi Kimono Store North Storehouse
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Uohashi Kimono Store North Storehouse

A storehouse of about 1925 behind a Himeji kimono shop, with two rooms that each have a door and lower walls faced with boards and split bamboo. Registered 2014.

Uohashi Kimono Store Shop and Main House
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Uohashi Kimono Store Shop and Main House

A 1925 kimono shop on Himeji's Nozato road: plastered cornice, glazed upper windows, a tatami sales room with coffered ceiling and a former open well. Listed 2014.

Oishi Family Residence East Annex
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Oishi Family Residence East Annex

A 1919 guest wing on the Oishi estate in Tanto, Toyooka: alcove, writing desk, staggered shelves, carved transoms and a lacquered frame and ceiling. Registered 2011.

Onoe Shrine Offering Hall
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Onoe Shrine Offering Hall

The Onoe Shrine Offering Hall in Kakogawa is a Taisho-era tiled hall set between the Worship and Main Halls, registered in 2007, with gables at the front and back.

Kajiwara Family Residence Inner Waiting Bench
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Kajiwara Family Residence Inner Waiting Bench

Taisho-era waiting bench in the Kajiwara tea garden, Oshio, Himeji: a driftwood post, a circular earthen partition, a tatami seat for honored guests, a sand privy.

Kajiwara Family Residence Front Gate
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Kajiwara Family Residence Front Gate

Taisho-era front gate of the Kajiwara estate in Oshio, Himeji: a 2.2 m munamon with a gently swelling tiled roof and side walls, visible from the street.

Kajiwara Family Residence North Detached Parlor
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Kajiwara Family Residence North Detached Parlor

Taisho-era guest annex north of the Kajiwara main house in Oshio, Himeji, with its own shikidai entrance, a mizuya and an eight-mat room with a round-window alcove.

Kajiwara Family Residence Shitabara Privy
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Kajiwara Family Residence Shitabara Privy

Taisho-era working privy in the tea garden of the Kajiwara estate in Oshio, Himeji: 2.2 m², with a roof hipped on one side and gabled on the other, in cypress bark.

Kajiwara Family Residence Main House
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Kajiwara Family Residence Main House

Main house of the Naka-Nishi-Kajiwara estate in Tenjin, Oshio, Himeji: a 1922 gable-entry irimoya house with layered roofs, an east doma and garden-side rooms.

Kajiwara Family Residence Outdoor Toilet
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Kajiwara Family Residence Outdoor Toilet

Taisho-era toilet beside the back door of the Kajiwara main house in Oshio, Himeji: a 0.97 m wide block of four stalls with mortar-based walls and lath windows.

Kajiwara Family Residence Tea Room Shizunoya
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Kajiwara Family Residence Tea Room Shizunoya

Taisho-era thatched tea house on the Kajiwara estate in Oshio, Himeji, with three tea rooms of 4.5, 4 and 2 mats, a stepped roof and a ladle-handle window.

Kajiwara Family Residence Middle Gate
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Kajiwara Family Residence Middle Gate

Taisho-era gate to the tea quarter of the Kajiwara estate in Oshio, Himeji: cedar-log posts on tall stones, bamboo and log rafters, a cypress-bark roof.

Kajiwara Family Residence Small Shrine
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Kajiwara Family Residence Small Shrine

Taisho-era shrine in the Kajiwara estate, Oshio, Himeji: a thatched one-bay shinmei-zukuri building of 0.64 m², with ridge posts, on a river-stone base.

Kajiwara Family Residence South Detached Parlor
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Kajiwara Family Residence South Detached Parlor

Taisho-era parlor south of the Kajiwara main house in Oshio, Himeji: an eight-mat room with a wave-edged katomado and a ceiling after Urasenke's Totsutotsusai.

Kawanishi City Local Museum (Former Hirayasu Family Residence Annex)
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Kawanishi City Local Museum (Former Hirayasu Family Residence Annex)

A 1919 sukiya-style guest pavilion at the Hirayasu residence in Kawanishi City Local Museum: an alcove room and anteroom with verandas on two sides, in fine timber.

Kawanishi City Local Museum (Former Hirayasu Family Residence North Barn)
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Kawanishi City Local Museum (Former Hirayasu Family Residence North Barn)

A 1919 board-walled barn on the north side of the Hirayasu residence in Kawanishi City Local Museum, with an earthen floor, a bracketed eave and a tall tiled wall.

Kawanishi City Local Museum (Former Hirayasu Family Residence Entrance Wing)
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Kawanishi City Local Museum (Former Hirayasu Family Residence Entrance Wing)

The 1919 entrance wing of the Hirayasu residence at the Kawanishi City Local Museum, with an earthen passage and reception rooms set apart from the main house.

Kawanishi City Local Museum (Former Hirayasu Family Residence Entrance Gate)
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Kawanishi City Local Museum (Former Hirayasu Family Residence Entrance Gate)

A 1919 one-bay yakuimon gate at the Hirayasu residence in Kawanishi City Local Museum, with a wicket door on one side and a wall turning into the entrance wing.

Kawanishi City Local Museum (Former Hirayasu Family Residence Main House)
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Kawanishi City Local Museum (Former Hirayasu Family Residence Main House)

The 1919 home of the copper-refining Hirayasu family at the Kawanishi City Local Museum: a six-room farmhouse plan with sukiya roofs and modern reception rooms.