Taishō
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The Former Joki Clinic East Storehouse, built in 1915 in Maibara, Shiga, held a doctor's medical books. Its plaster walls bear the family crest and a relief dragon.
Built around 1919 by the Ōmi merchant Tanaka family, this great hall frames its garden through verandas and Taishō glass, and now serves the Ōmi Shōnintei restaurant.
This 1919 plaster storehouse stands at the northwest corner, with a boarded skirt, a separate roof over its core, and a notched eaves band, shaping the post-town street.
Built around 1919 by the Ōmi merchant Tanaka family, this eight-mat tea room works round bamboo and fine woods into its alcove, and now forms part of the Ōmi Shōnintei.
Built in 1919 for the Ōmi merchant Tanaka family, this two-storey timber house lays out grid-plan rooms open to the garden, and now houses the Ōmi Shōnintei restaurant.
The Koizumi Family Residence Lower Privy and Middle Gate, of about 1915, divide the front garden from the inner courtyard with fine timber worked in sukiya style.
The Koizumi Family Residence Small Western Wing and Apprentices' Rooms, of about 1909, pairs a Western room made from a privy with rooms for live-in apprentices.
The Koizumi Family Residence New Zashiki Wing is a Taisho-era reception wing with an eight-mat room, flush alcove and desk window, added as the merchant estate grew.
A Taisho-era hira-karamon gate in the fence south of the Guest Hall at Saikyoji in Otsu, 2.1 m wide with a cypress-bark roof and carved gable. Registered 2001.
A 1917 four-legged gate before Saikyoji's Founder's Hall in Otsu, with karahafu front and back, carved dragons and lions and long earthen walls. Registered 2001.
A 1917 hira-karamon gate on a raised base west of Saikyoji's Founder's Hall in Otsu, 3.0 m wide and plain, its large ridge strut the core of the design.
A hexagonal water pavilion of about 1917 facing the side gate in Saikyoji's Founder's Hall compound in Otsu, sheltering a lotus-shaped basin. Registered 2001.
A 1916 shoin hall facing the Guest Hall at Saikyoji in Otsu, built for the great 1917 service: 13 by 9 bays, four front and six rear rooms. Registered in 2001.
Saikyoji Temple Ossuary, built around 1917 southeast of the Main Hall, stacks a raised roof over a lean-to, framed by a great ginkgo, cherries and maples.
A refined 1919 reception wing at Sasaki Shrine in Azuchi, Omihachiman, Shiga, registered in 2021, with a formal shoin room and a tea room.
The 1924 auditorium of the former Hikone Higher Commercial School, now Shiga University, stands by the moat of Hikone Castle, clapboarded and topped by a tower.
Built in 1918, Shojukan Front Gate and Wall pairs a 1.8-metre gate set back 9.5 metres from the lane with 136 metres of tiled timber fence around the grounds.
Shojukan Kawato is an early Taisho stone washing place on a village channel in Gokasho, granite-framed with steps down to the water, registered in 2021.
Shojukan Hallway Tatami Room of the early Taisho era is eight mats that also serve as a passage, with a drum-shaped lath window. It was registered in 2021.
The ema hall of Tarobogu Aga Shrine in Higashiomi, Shiga, designed in 1925 by a Nara Prefecture engineer, is a plain, orderly hall at the foot of the precinct.