Taishō
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Built in 1924, the National Astronomical Observatory Guard House is the only timber structure among the ten registered entries on the campus, with half-timbering.
Built in 1925 at Mitaka in Tokyo, this small concrete room has a gable roof on rails that slides open, and now displays the 1880 Repsold transit instrument.
The 1914 main hall of Jōgū-ji, a Pure Land temple in Hiroo, Tokyo, joined Japan's Tangible Cultural Property register in 2017. Its gabled front is the draw.
Jogu-ji's reception annex in Hiroo, Tokyo, dates to around 1914. Registered in 2017, its plain rooms and comb-shaped transom show restrained Taisho temple design.
Built in 1916 as a pawnshop vault, this Yanaka storehouse rises three storeys of clay-plaster construction on a span of just 3.6 metres. Registered in 2000.
The Taisho-era stone wall of Tamura Sake Brewery in Fussa, Tokyo: 145 meters of waist-high river cobbles turning a right-angled corner along the Tamagawa Aqueduct.
Built as the home of Yasui Tetsu, the university's first dean. At 111 sq m it is much the smallest of the seven registered buildings on this campus today.
Home to the university's foreign teaching staff, four units above and shared rooms below. Horizontal eaves and carved capitals show Raymond under Wright.
Completed in 1924 among the earliest buildings on this campus: an E-shaped plan, a hall projecting behind the entrance, and a Wrightian central section.
Built for the science classrooms and the largest of the seven at 1,453 sq m. Its south half came first, and triple steel sash windows face Building No. 7.
The 1925 Reppinkan on the University of Tokyo Hongo campus, registered in 1998, the first building in the Uchida Gothic style that shaped the campus after the earthquake.
The 1925 Great Hall of the University of Tokyo, designed by Uchida Yoshikazu in a vertical Gothic and Expressionist style, and the first registered cultural property in 1996.
The Osakaya Sunaba store in Toranomon, Tokyo, a two-storey timber corner shop of 1923 with a cut corner and a small gable, is loved as a local landmark.
The Nakae Shop in Taito Ward, Tokyo, is a timber shop of 1924 on Dote-dori with a tall gabled front and upstairs transoms worked with pine, bamboo, plum and cherry.
Nezu Church's chapel in Tokyo, a clapboard building said to date from 1919, with an off-center entrance, a spired tower and pointed windows. Registered in 2001.
The Taisho-era brick gate and wall of Nezu Church in Tokyo, kept low on the chapel side so the gable stays in view, with 3 gateposts for 2 gates. Registered 2001.
A 4-storey church of 1926 in Hongo, Tokyo, built with the concrete block system devised by its architect Nakamura Mamoru. Registered as a cultural property in 2021.
The Hirano Family Residence Storehouse in Tokyo, built around 1922, is a brick store with a basement, overfired bricks, rounded joints and glass window hoods.
The 1921 main house of the Hirano Family Residence in Tokyo, by Yasuoka Katsuya, keeps its clapboard guest wing, original fittings and tall glass doors. Private.
The Hirano Family Residence Tea Room in Tokyo, built around 1922, is a four-and-a-half-mat room with a board alcove and moon-viewing shoji by Yasuoka Katsuya.