Taishō
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On Tōgō Beach in Numazu, the Former Numazu Imperial Villa Garden was an imperial retreat across three eras. Its surviving 26-room West Annex stands amid black pines.
Abekawa Bridge in Shizuoka, a 491-metre steel truss bridge of 1923 on the old Route 1 and registered in 2023, is said to be Japan's longest bowstring truss bridge.
Kaikodo Murakamiya, a timber shop of 1926 before Mishima Taisha in Shizuoka, has a symmetrical front clad entirely in copper sheet laid in changing patterns.
The Former Igarashi Dental Clinic in Kanbara, Shizuoka, a Meiji townhouse given a Western front in about 1914, stands out on the old Tokaido with its glazed windows.
The 1919 bell tower at Otowasan Kiyomizudera in Shizuoka has bronze corner braces cast with lotus motifs. On New Year's Eve the first hundred people ring its bell.
Not a dam but a 70-metre dry-stone channel of around 1912, Kiwadagawa Channel Works No. 1 in Fujieda, Shizuoka, guides the stream into Dam No. 8 at the valley head.
The lowest dry-stone check dam in a group built around 1912 after an 1910 storm, Kiwadagawa Sabo Dam No. 1 in Fujieda, Shizuoka, is nicknamed the helmet dam.
Kiwadagawa Sabo Dam No. 5 in Fujieda, Shizuoka, is a small dry-stone dam of around 1912 that fixes the streambed as a ground sill within a state-designated sabo project.
Kiwadagawa Sabo Dam No. 3 in Fujieda, Shizuoka, blends old dry stonework with a modern trapezoidal overflow. Built around 1912, it marks a turning point in sabo work.
The retirement house of the Sagisaka family, miso and soy sauce makers in the old Mitsuke post town of Iwata, Shizuoka, is a refined two-storey house of 1923.
The storehouse of the Sagisaka family in the old Mitsuke post town of Iwata, Shizuoka, a three-storey plastered store of 1917, stands on a base of Izu stone.
Completed in 1915 to enshrine an Amida once owned by Emperor Kokaku, this earthen-walled hall in Shizuoka carries plaster-relief guardians by Morita Kakudo.
Raised in 1923 on a summit at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this timber pagoda carries triple-stepped brackets and draws business people praying against insolvency.
Joined to the great kitchen wing at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this late Taisho guest building of 524 square metres sets two tiled ranges side by side.
Attached to the Main Hall at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this duty room of about 1915 carries the corridor that ties the hall to the kitchen wing beside it.
Facing east on a hillside at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this hall of about 1915 opens its rear bay to look directly at the small shrine sheltered behind it.
Standing on a cobbled platform before the Main Hall at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this belfry of about 1922 flares outward at its base and opens above.
Facing west beside the Main Hall at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this long early Taisho kitchen wing of 513 square metres fronts an undulating gabled porch.
Attached to the Main Hall at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this 1915 entrance for honoured guests carries a curved tiled roof and a chrysanthemum crest.
Built in 1915 at the centre of Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this six-room abbot's hall covers 735 square metres, with a projecting veranda and a broad pantiled roof.