Taishō
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The 1919 nagayamon gate of the Hirayasu residence in Kawanishi City Local Museum, the family's everyday entrance, with board skirting and a tall tiled wall.
A square 1919 storehouse at the Hirayasu residence in Kawanishi City Local Museum, with a detached tiled roof and stepped plaster cornices, north of the annex.
A tiny 1919 barn of 9.4 m² fitted between two storehouses at the Hirayasu residence in Kawanishi City Local Museum, with sliding doors across its whole front.
A 1919 board-floored barn with a well house, set against the Tatsumi Storehouse on the east side of the Hirayasu residence in Kawanishi City Local Museum.
A 1919 tile-roofed board fence running 48.2 m along the approach to the Hirayasu residence in Kawanishi City Local Museum, framing the front of the estate.
A 1919 detached bathhouse at the Hirayasu residence in Kawanishi City Local Museum, with a bath, a changing room, a steam vent on the roof and a covered walkway.
A 26-metre riveted steel water tower of 1923 in Takasago, Hyogo, built from Yawata steel by Kawasaki Shipyard for the town's first waterworks. Registered in 2003.
A 1918 timber hall in Kakogawa, Hyogo, pairing a sixteen-mat room with an antechamber and opening onto a garden that holds its own separate heritage listing.
A late-Taisho timber gate facing the lane at Mitoro-en in Kakogawa, Hyogo, 4.9 metres wide, keeping Jurakukabe plaster on its rear face and visible from the road.
A Taisho service wing at Mitoro-en in Kakogawa, Hyogo, where polished log posts, lobed windows and a radial bathroom ceiling bring sukiya refinement to a bathhouse.
Built in 1924 and registered in 2016, this clapboard and roughcast house in Kobe's Mikage district sets Western rooms downstairs and Japanese rooms above.
A 25-square-metre bath wing built in 1918 for guests alone, linked by roofed passage to house and annexe. Sukiya woodwork meets tile, marble and a koyamaki tub.
Built in 1918 for a Nishiwaki banker, this registered house hides a central-corridor plan, hanegi beams and iron rods behind an old townhouse face. Free entry.
This 58-square-metre annexe went up before the main house. Its eight-mat room keeps alcove, shelving and writing bay, with a veranda on three sides. Free entry.
A c. 1919 hexagonal gazebo from the home of Hiraga Yoshimi at the Kawanishi City Local Museum, with cast-iron columns, glass transoms and a star-patterned floor.
The 1918 laboratory of chemist Hiraga Yoshimi at the Kawanishi City Local Museum, a 2-storey building linked to his English-style house by a stepped bridge.
The 1918 home of chemist Hiraga Yoshimi, modelled on the English country house with bay windows, fireplaces and chimneys, moved to the Kawanishi City Local Museum.
A late Taisho guest bathhouse in the Kusaka compound in Awaga, Asago, 3.6 by 3.2 metres, with fan rafters, polished-log beams, wickerwork and a large round window.
A late Taisho storehouse in the Kusaka compound in Awaga, Asago, 6.9 by 5.9 metres, once an archive for the forestry office, with plasterwork over the door.
A late Taisho garden gate between the Kusaka main house and guest bathhouse in Awaga, Asago, 1.2 metres wide, raised above its corridors, with a black stone floor.