Taishō

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.