Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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A hand-laid dry-stone sabo dam of 1919 in Hida, Gifu, 36 m long and 5.5 m high at a 1:1.5 slope, with a concrete spillway and apron. First sabo work on the Jinzu.
The uppermost Azukisawa dam in Hida, Gifu: a 1920 dry-stone sabo dam, 25 m long and 5.5 m high, whose lower 4 m now lie buried under a century of trapped gravel.
A 1920 dry-stone sabo dam in a ravine at Azukisawa, Hida, Gifu, 30 m long and 4.5 m high. Water glides down its 45-degree face in a thin sheet. Registered 2019.
Built in 1850, the Isaji Family Residence Kamizashiki in Mitake, Gifu, pairs a formal porch with a biwa alcove and was sold off, then brought back, in the Meiji era.
The Isaji Family Residence Main House in Mitake, Gifu, is a late Edo farmhouse, registered in 2018, with a heavy yotsudate timber frame bare over its earth floor.
The Isaji Family Residence Tea House in Mitake, Gifu, is a late Edo six-mat tea room with a wrinkled cedar alcove post, black lacquer sill and pale blue-green walls.
The Isaji Family Residence Storehouse in Mitake, Gifu, is a 2-storey early Meiji rice store whose earthen walls are trimmed with white plaster at openings and eaves.
The Isaji Family Residence Nagayamon Gate in Mitake, Gifu, is a 20-metre late Edo gatehouse on a rough fieldstone wall above an old road, with lattice windows.
The late Meiji to Taisho gate and wall of the Imao estate in Kakamigahara, Gifu, registered in 2007, a yakui-mon with wickets and a long white-plastered wall.
A Taisho two-storey rice storehouse on the Imao estate in Kakamigahara, Gifu, registered in 2007, joined to the south wall of the estate.
The Taisho inner gate and wall of the Imao estate in Kakamigahara, Gifu, registered in 2007, with bamboo-inset doors and lattice windows screening the garden.
A Taisho detached house on the Imao estate in Kakamigahara, Gifu, registered in 2007, on a tortoiseshell stone base beside the garden and inner gate.
A small kasuga-style hall of 1925 facing the Imao estate in Kakamigahara, Gifu, registered in 2007, on a stone base with the family crest pierced in its doors.
The Kasami Shrine Worship Hall in Kakamigahara, Gifu, is an open-sided 1746 hall on a stone base whose raised central beams recall a split worship hall.
The Kasami Shrine Offering Hall in Kakamigahara, Gifu, is a 1910 gabled hall 11 meters wide whose raised, recessed center faces the sanctuary. Registered in 2008.
The Kasami Shrine Main Hall in Kakamigahara, Gifu, is a 1687 three-bay nagare-zukuri sanctuary with layered front gables and a cypress-bark roof, registered in 2008.
Standing on Ichinomachi Street in Hida-Furukawa, Gifu Prefecture, the Kaba Sake Brewery Main Building was rebuilt in 1906 after a great fire by relocating an older Wada family townhouse from a nearby village. Its eleven-ken-long lattice facade anchors one of central Japan's most beautiful historic streetscapes, and it was registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2007. The building still serves as the working shop and residence of the Kaba Sake Brewery, founded in 1704.
Standing along Ichinomachi-dōri in Hida-Furukawa, Gifu Prefecture, the Kaba Shuzōjō Sodegura is a two-story Meiji-era sake warehouse built in 1906. Part of the Kaba family's brewery (founded in 1704), this white-plastered dozō with its vertical wood lap-siding is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property since 2007 and a defining element of one of Japan's most beloved traditional townscapes.
Built in 1906 beside the Seto irrigation channel in Hida-Furukawa, this two-storey earthen storehouse kept the Kaba Shuzojo brewery's records safe from fire.
The Uedaya main house faces the old Nakasendo in Ochiai-juku. Its early-Meiji upper floor, thrust out on beams above latticed windows, marks a post-town official's home.
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