Taishō

Discover the Itani Family Residence Incense Waterwheel Shed in Susami, Wakayama Prefecture—a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property preserving the vanishing tradition of waterwheel-powered incense production in Japan's Kii Peninsula.

A 156-metre concrete terrace cut into a hillside at Toin High School, Wakayama, built in 1922 after two national baseball titles and Japan's first imperial ballgame.

This 50-metre stone wall and approach in Shingu City was designed by Nishimura Isaku around 1926: granite porphyry in diagonal coursing, plus an arched well chamber.

Standing in the Tankaku district of Shingu City, Wakayama, the Former Chapman House Main Building is a two-story wooden Western-style residence completed in 1926. It was designed by Shingu native Nishimura Isaku for the American Presbyterian missionary E.N. Chapman, embodying the architect's pioneering 'living-room-centered' home philosophy. Registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in 2020, it is now freely open to visitors and pairs beautifully with nearby Kumano Hayatama Taisha and the Shingu Castle Ruins.

A reinforced-concrete gate on the estate's southern edge, west of the bath building, where two piers carry a segmental arch and keystone in pared-down Western style.

The estate's main entrance, a nagaya-mon of 1925, sets a room in its north bays against a tiled passage in the south, fronted by a long approach with a stone lion.

A two-story earthen storehouse in the northwest corner, pairing plastered walls with a Western king-post truss and lane-side boarding. Now used as a dining room.

A brick, two-story water tower north of the main house, with sash windows, a cornice and white tile banding, its modern utility shown openly among timber buildings.

Built in 1920 by speculator Matsui Isuke, this timber main house links three blocks around its garden, known for a Yakusugi-cedar ceiling. Now a restaurant.

A 91-meter earthen wall folding along the estate's south and west faces, tinted reddish with bengara over a sandstone skirt and a local blue-stone foundation.

The smallest registered building here, a privy southeast of the tea house, its yellow plaster walls set with differently shaped windows under cypress-bark eaves.

A compact earthen storehouse south of the north store, dated 1919, the earliest registered here, with plastered walls and a truss roof beside its larger neighbor.

A brick bath building at the southeast of the grounds, with a reinforced-concrete flat roof, parapet, cornice and geometric facade. Modern style in a private corner.

Discover the Kōdai-in Tahōtō, a finely crafted Taisho-era two-storied pagoda at one of Koyasan's most prestigious imperial temples. Learn about its royal heritage, exquisite architectural details, and the serene garden setting of this Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

Built in 1926 by Amerika-ya, Japan's first house-building firm, this Wakayama home sets bay windows and arch-headed openings against Japanese ground-floor rooms.

A 55-metre reinforced concrete boundary of 1926, faced with split andesite below and cast stone tile above, registered for its part in Wakayama's streetscape.

The treasure house of Jōgan-ji in Kinokawa, Wakayama. Dating from 1913, it has a pyramidal tiled roof topped by a jewel finial and plastered walls. Registered 2024.

A 1920 detached guest room moved from Hashimoto to a Wakayama City temple in 2013, registered in 2017 for the quality of its two-tiered alcove and shoin joinery.

The Taiji Fisheries Cooperative Association Office is a Taisho-era wooden building near Taiji Port in Wakayama Prefecture, registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property. Featuring a traditional irimoya-style tiled roof and a distinctive pale pink exterior, this charming structure embodies the cooperative spirit of Japan's most famous whaling town.

A Taisho-era gate-house at the Nagatake farmstead in Wakayama: a 23-metre tiled range with black-plaster walls and a thin white line. Private; seen from the lane.