Taishō
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The Kiyomizudera Temple Great Lecture Hall in Kato, rebuilt in 1917, is a seven-bay hall under a pyramidal tiled roof holding the image of pilgrimage stop 25.
The Kiyomizudera Temple Bell Tower in Kato, dated 1919, is a tiled belfry on a flared skirt base, set on the stairs and hung with a bell designed by Takeda Goichi.
The Kiyomizudera Temple Konpon Chudo, rebuilt in 1917 on Mount Mitake in Kato, is a five-bay hall with a karahafu porch that keeps a hidden Eleven-Headed Kannon.
This 1926 former court of appeals is the largest surviving public building of Sapporo soft stone. An Important Cultural Property, it now houses a free city museum.
Completed in 1916 and designated in 1983, this brick church in Motomachi, Hakodate carries six cupolas and a bell tower ranked among Japan's 100 Soundscapes.
This 1922 timber kindergarten in Obihiro, Hokkaido, sets an octagonal domed playroom at the centre of a square plan. An Important Cultural Property since 2017.
Shaonkan, a 1922 wooden annex at Iai Gakuin in Hakodate, was registered in 2005. Its over-burnt brick plinth and banded sliding windows echo the main hall beside it.
The front gate of about 1919 to the Endo estate in Susukino, Sapporo: a 2.5 m single-bay yakuimon with a gently swelling pantile roof and wicket doors at its sides.
A long Sapporo soft-stone storehouse of about 1919 on the Endo estate in Susukino, built into the boundary wall, with a banded eave and round-cornered windows.
A 2-storey brick storehouse of about 1919 joined to the Endo main house in Susukino, Sapporo, with dark English-bond brick, broken pediments and a dentilled cornice.
A timber merchant's house of about 1919 in Sapporo's Susukino, with a Western parlour, staggered tatami suites and a brick north wall that doubles as the boundary.
The 161 m wall of about 1919 enclosing the Endo estate in Susukino, Sapporo: rock-faced soft stone on three sides, brick on the north, with geometric capitals.
A tiny Sapporo soft-stone storehouse of about 1919 on the Endo estate in Susukino, built against the boundary wall, with stone brackets and a root-cellar basement.
A 2-storey timber office of 1913 at the front of the Kamikawa Warehouses in Asahikawa: weatherboarding, a brick chimney and a pedimented gable with an arched window.
The largest and last of the Kamikawa Warehouses in Asahikawa, built in 1913 at the centre of the block with pediments on both gables; now the Daisetsu Ji Beer Hall.
The yard tracks of Tomiuchi Station on the Former JNR Tomiuchi Line in Mukawa, Hokkaido, laid in 1923, run 380 metres as double track on rails from three countries.
Tomiuchi Station Building on the Former JNR Tomiuchi Line in Mukawa, Hokkaido, is a 1923 timber station house with a points-lever cabin beside its ticket barrier.
The stone platform of Tomiuchi Station on the Former JNR Tomiuchi Line in Mukawa, Hokkaido, built in 1923, runs about 75 metres behind the station building.
A Taisho house in Hobetsu, Mukawa, built by an oil prospector turned farmer from timber off his own land, dismantled in 2003 and rebuilt beside the town museum.
Built in 1919 in Ebetsu, Hokkaido, this 57-square-metre stone building housed the town's first bank until 1966. Registered as a cultural property in February 2002.