Taishō
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A Taisho-period school building in Soka, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. Its own roof over there was given over to use as a playground even so even now today.
Seishido, a brick hall of 1916 built for Shibusawa Eiichi's 77th birthday and moved from Tokyo to Fukaya, Saitama, is a gem of English rustic style; entry is free.
An early Taisho retreat 40 metres northwest of the Otani estate in Fukaya, Saitama, with offset hipped roofs, tall proportions and a gabled porch. Registered 2004.
A three-storey clay-walled shop of 1915 in Ogose, Saitama, from the town's silk-trading years, once black-plastered, with copper tortoiseshell work. Registered 2008.
Kami Bridge in Honjo, Saitama: a 1926 concrete bridge only 6.3 m long, built for the Isesaki road, with tiled arched parapets and pedimented end posts.
The Taisho Storehouse of the former Kagamiyama sake brewery in Kawagoe, a 22-metre storehouse with a two-tier roof, once bottled sake and now houses a restaurant.
The earliest of three Oya stone storehouses at a Kumagaya headman's estate, built about 1914 on a raised stone base, with five rooms and underfloor storage inside.
A two-story Oya stone rice store of about 1920 at a Kumagaya headman's estate, with timber roof trusses, an inward-facing door and two iron-shuttered upper windows.
A stone wall of about 1920 enclosing a Kumagaya headman's estate on two sides: six courses of Oya stone on a natural-stone footing, 136.3 meters long in total.
The largest of three Oya stone storehouses at a Kumagaya headman's estate, built in 1920 with two iron-doored entrances and lean-to roofs, now a museum gallery.
The 1914 main house of a headman's estate in Koshigaya, Saitama: an earth-floored work half, a suite of timber-rich reception rooms, and a formal porch entrance.
A finely carved early Taishō household shrine in Koshigaya, Saitama, only 3.4 square metres, with a gable-verge porch and railed veranda under an open shelter.
A timber weaving shed of 1920 in Kawaguchi, Saitama, carrying four saw-tooth roofs over trussed bays. Registered in 2019, privately owned and closed to visitors.
Completed in 1924 behind the weaving sheds in Kawaguchi, Saitama, this copper-roofed house keeps a farmhouse plan. Registered in 2019, private and not open.
A 1922 wooden schoolhouse in Fukaya, registered in 2000. French Renaissance detail on Japanese carpentry, restored to its original green. Open free on Sundays.
The gate and 75-metre brick wall around a Kawaguchi foundry estate in Saitama. English bond, 2.7 metres high, capped by a pantiled roof. Listed in 2019.
A late Taisho outbuilding on a Kawaguchi foundry estate in Saitama, with an earth floor, an open lean-to across the front and a barred storage loft above it.
A Western house of about 1922 at the centre of a Kawaguchi foundry estate in Saitama, with German render, tall windows and Secession detailing at the porch.
The Anglican chapel of Kawagoe Christ Church in Saitama, a 1921 brick building by William Wilson, closes a T-junction with Gothic windows and a square tower.
The brick gate of Kumagaya Saint Paul's Church in Saitama, built in 1919, faces the chapel porch and repeats the chapel's brickwork with a band of upright bricks.