Taishō

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43 total Yamaguchi Taishō Period 1912 – 1926
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Nagao Hachiman Shrine Waiting Hall
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Nagao Hachiman Shrine Waiting Hall

Nagao Hachiman Shrine Waiting Hall on Suo-Oshima: a 1916 tiled hall north of the middle hall, with an alcove room, linked to the middle hall by a covered passage.

Nagao Hachiman Shrine Main Hall
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Nagao Hachiman Shrine Main Hall

Nagao Hachiman Shrine Main Hall on Suo-Oshima: a three-bay nagare-style hall of 1916 with a bark roof, three-step brackets and fine carvings by local carpenters.

Nakano Family Residence Tea House
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Nakano Family Residence Tea House

The Nakano Family Residence Tea House in Nagato is a late Taisho four-and-a-half-mat tea room registered as a model of design, with a flame-headed window.

Nakano Family Residence Storehouse
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Nakano Family Residence Storehouse

The Nakano Family Residence Storehouse in Shimonoseki is a small two-storey Taisho-era storehouse with a gabled tile roof, the white accent of a thatched farmstead.

Nakano Family Residence Annex
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Nakano Family Residence Annex

The Nakano Family Residence Annex in Nagato is a late Taisho guest wing with a three-storey clapboard lookout tower added around 1929 and a fan-shaped ceiling.

Nakano Family Residence Gate and Wall
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Nakano Family Residence Gate and Wall

The Nakano Family Residence Gate and Wall in Nagato is a late Taisho yakuimon gate with a 36-metre tiled wall on a stone base, lining a side lane of the compound.

Hagi Station Building
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Hagi Station Building

Timber Western-style station of 1925 in Hagi, Yamaguchi, with a porch, restored in 1998; now a free museum on Hagi and the railway pioneer Inoue Masaru.

Hachiya Building (Former Shimonoseki Branch of Toyo Whaling)
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Hachiya Building (Former Shimonoseki Branch of Toyo Whaling)

Brick office of 1926, the Shimonoseki branch of Toyo Whaling on a headland over the Kanmon Strait, with geometric capitals; it recalls the city's whaling past.

Momoyama Water Metering Room
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Momoyama Water Metering Room

The Momoyama Water Metering Room in Ube, Yamaguchi, a small octagonal brick house of 1924, is known locally as the hexagon hall and once wore a pyramid roof.

Ryotei Takadai Large Banquet Hall
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Ryotei Takadai Large Banquet Hall

Registered in 2024, the 1921 banquet hall of Ryotei Takadai in Hagi opens to about one hundred tatami mats with no pillar, spanned by a hidden Western truss.

Ryotei Takadai Entrance and Corridor
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Ryotei Takadai Entrance and Corridor

Late Taisho work registered in 2024, the entrance of Ryotei Takadai in Hagi carries a carved strut above its beam, and a tatami corridor runs on to the banquet hall.

Former Mouri Family Main Residence
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Former Mouri Family Main Residence

Former Yamaguchi Prefectural Office and Assembly Building
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Former Yamaguchi Prefectural Office and Assembly Building

Sansuien Garden
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Sansuien Garden

Okinoyama Railway Shaft Stone Wall
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Okinoyama Railway Shaft Stone Wall

Kawasaki Kannon Temple Gate
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Kawasaki Kannon Temple Gate

Former Katsuragatani Reservoir Dam
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Former Katsuragatani Reservoir Dam

Gokokuji Temple Ossuary
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Gokokuji Temple Ossuary

Tamtsubaki Ryokan
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Tamtsubaki Ryokan

Matsumuro Bridge
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Matsumuro Bridge