Taishō

Wakayama · 大正

Browse Wakayama’s cultural heritage from the Taishō period (1912 – 1926). Filter by type and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.

110 total Wakayama Taishō Period 1912 – 1926
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Hibushi Clinic Hospital Building
Wakayama 大正
Hibushi Clinic Hospital Building

Built in the late Taishō era, the Hibuse Clinic hospital wing in Hashimoto stands on a floor raised about 1.3 m against the Kinokawa floods, a clapboard town landmark.

Fukuda Family Residence West Gate
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Fukuda Family Residence West Gate

In Susami, Wakayama, the Fukuda Family Residence West Gate of about 1913 is a small udegimon, its transom carved with bamboo and chrysanthemum. Now registered.

Fukuda Family Residence Bathroom and Toilet
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Fukuda Family Residence Bathroom and Toilet

In Susami, Wakayama, the Fukuda Family Residence Bath and Privy of 1912 is a rare surviving service block, with five privies south and a bath north. Now registered.

Horikawaya Nomura Second Brewery
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Horikawaya Nomura Second Brewery

The Second Brewing House at Horikawaya Nomura, from the early Taisho era, carries a Western king-post truss above rows of tall wooden vats. Registered in 2014.

Yamamoto Family Residence Interior 1
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Yamamoto Family Residence Interior 1

A two-storey earthen storehouse of 1923, its white-plastered walls and tiled gable rising from a tall granite base to anchor the compound's western view.

Yamamoto Family Residence Interior 2
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Yamamoto Family Residence Interior 2

A mid-Taisho earthen storehouse set east of its companion with its ridge turned crosswise, white-plastered on a granite base under a lighter pan-tiled gable.

Wakayama Electric Railway Kishigawa Line Itakiso Station
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Wakayama Electric Railway Kishigawa Line Itakiso Station

A 52-meter timber inspection shed at Idakiso Station, framed with king-post trusses of rough logs and two sunken floor pits. Built in 1916 and still in service; registered in 2014.

Wakayama Electric Railway Kishigawa Line Itakiso Station
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Wakayama Electric Railway Kishigawa Line Itakiso Station

A 43-meter stone platform from 1916 and an early-Showa steel shelter whose posts are reused railway rails, finished with a dentil cornice. Registered together in 2014.

Wakayama Electric Railway Kishigawa Line West Second Bridge
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Wakayama Electric Railway Kishigawa Line West Second Bridge

A 14-meter steel two-span girder bridge about 3 km west of Idakiso, its girders staggered to cross an irrigation canal at a sharp skew. Built in 1916, the oldest of the line three registered bridges.

Wagoan Main House
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Wagoan Main House

Built in 1926 by a local Koyasan carpenter, this private wooden house is a registered cultural property in a World Heritage landscape, but it is closed to visitors.

Kotonoura Onsen Mountain Lodge
Wakayama 大正
Kotonoura Onsen Mountain Lodge

Former Nishimura Family Residence
Wakayama 大正
Former Nishimura Family Residence

Southern Mandala Landscape Kamishima, Toki Shrine, Susa
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Southern Mandala Landscape Kamishima, Toki Shrine, Susa

Iseya Minamizo
Wakayama 大正
Iseya Minamizo

Ito Family Residence Main Building
Wakayama 大正
Ito Family Residence Main Building

Inoue Family Residence (Former Iwata Family Residence) Main
Wakayama 大正
Inoue Family Residence (Former Iwata Family Residence) Main

Inoue Family Residence (Former Iwata Family Residence)
Wakayama 大正
Inoue Family Residence (Former Iwata Family Residence)

Uto Family Residence Nagaya Gate
Wakayama 大正
Uto Family Residence Nagaya Gate

Uto Family Residence Gate
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Uto Family Residence Gate

Umemoto Family Main Building
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Umemoto Family Main Building