Taishō
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The Hirano Family Residence Tea Room Gate in Tokyo, built around 1922, is a timber garden gate with a gently swelling board roof held down by round bamboo.
The Hirano Family Residence Gate in Tokyo, built around 1922, pairs rendered brick posts with a curved tiled roof, a wicket door and brick walls. Seen from the road.
The Western-style annex of the Hirano Family Residence in Tokyo, built in 1922, has white tiles, half-timbering and its own entrance and stair. Interior private.
The Maeda Family outdoor privy on Niijima, Tokyo, is a mid-Taisho stone building registered in 2004. Walls and barrel vault are built wholly of island koga-ishi.
A late Taisho inner gate in Higashikurume, 1.5 m wide, built of zelkova on brackets with a lattice transom, dividing a farm estate's front garden from its inner one.
An Important Cultural Property film recording Onoe Matsunosuke—Japan's first movie star—performing the iconic "Farewell at Sakurai" before the future Emperor Shōwa at Japan's first motion picture exhibition in 1921. Only the second film ever designated nationally; a digitally restored version is freely available online, with related exhibits at the National Film Archive of Japan in Kyobashi, Tokyo.
Yokoyama Taikan's 1923 ink handscroll, over 40 metres long, following water from mountain mist to the sea, an Important Cultural Property held by MOMAT in Tokyo.
Built in 1914 at the Railway Agency's Shinbashi Works, the wooden Nade 6141 is the oldest surviving bogie electric railcar in Japan and the prototype of today's commuter trains, introducing the three-door layout and multiple-unit control system. Designated a National Important Cultural Property in 2017, it is preserved and displayed at The Railway Museum in Saitama City.