Taishō
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Designed by polymath Nishimura Isaku and built in 1925, this small wooden church in southern Wakayama has a steep roof, a tall porch, and an exposed timber truss.
Discover the Hashimoto Police Station Koya Executive Police Box, a unique Taisho-era wooden police building designed with Buddhist temple motifs, registered as a national tangible cultural property, located in the heart of the UNESCO World Heritage site Mount Koya, Wakayama.
The Hashimoto rice office in Gobo is a small Western-style timber building on the old Kumano Kaido, where a landowning house counted its tenant rice. Registered 2020.
The Hashimoto earthen wall in Gobo runs about twenty meters along the old Kumano Kaido, with a flared stone base and a washed-mortar face under pantile. Registered 2020.
Hatsuzakura's early-Taishō main house, in Katsuragi's last sake brewery, is a six-bay machiya whose upstairs rooms now host tastings of Kōyasan Hannyatō sake.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A 1916 guest wing in Hashimoto, Wakayama, with a shikidai entrance and a formal shoin room. Moved whole by hikiya in 1955 when the road widened. Exterior views only.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Wagoan Storehouse at Koyasan is a two-storey earthen-walled store of about 1926, registered in 2008. Just 22 square metres, roofed in copper shaped as pantiles.
Wagoan Wall runs 7.4 metres along a Koyasan lane, clad in flattened bamboo outside and woven cedar bark within. Registered as a Cultural Property in 2008.
Wagoan Gate at Koyasan is a bracket-arm gate of about 1926 with a 1.5-metre opening, knotty log posts and paired rafters under a hipped roof. Registered in 2008.