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