Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

An 1875 shop and home on the old road in Takada, Yoro, Gifu, with a 19-metre frontage and black plaster above lattices; oldest of seven listed brewery buildings.

A 1928 household storehouse behind the main house of a Yoro sake brewery in Gifu, walled in black plaster with a Shu-brocade pattern and stepped fireproof doors.

The largest of seven listed buildings at a Yoro sake brewery in Gifu: a 1926 earthen-walled hall where mash was pressed, aged and bottled under a doubled-beam roof.

Tucked inside Kumano Shrine in the Kurose district of Yaotsu, Gifu Prefecture, the Mekakushi-mon ('screening gate') is a quietly distinctive structure from the early Showa period, registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in 1998. Built to shield the sacred precinct from view, it stands at the heart of an old Kiso River port town and at the starting point of the 300-year-old Yaotsu Danjiri Festival.

Hidden deep within a forested ravine in Hida City, Gifu Prefecture, the Kuwadani No.1 Sabo Dam is a remarkable hand-built erosion-control structure completed in 1921. Constructed of meticulously fitted mortared stonework, it was built in response to a devastating 1914 sediment disaster and forms part of Japan's first major sabo project on the Jinzu River system. Registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2019, it stands as a quiet testament to early twentieth-century Japanese civil engineering craftsmanship.

The Kuwadani No. 5 Sabo Dam, located in Kuwano, Miyagawa-cho, Hida City, Gifu Prefecture, is a dry stone masonry erosion-control dam built in 1920 and registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2019. The tallest of the historic sabo dams in the upper Jinzū River system, this hand-built structure quietly preserves the civil engineering heritage of Taishō-era Japan. Its four-meter sliding waterfall and weathered stonework tell the story of a century-long stand against landslides in one of the country's most mountainous regions.

Built in 1920 by hand alone, the Kuwadani No. 10 Sabo Dam in Hida, Gifu is a 23-by-4.5-meter dry-stone check dam with a mortared auxiliary sub-dam set against its front face. Registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2019.

Built in 1921, the Kuwadani No. 2 Erosion-Control Dam stands 6.4 metres tall and 26 metres wide in a tributary of the Miyagawa River in Hida City, Gifu. Its mortared stonework, paired with the matching Dam No. 1 just downstream, forms a cascading pair registered as a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan in 2019.

Completed in 1920 at the head of the Kuwatani ravine in Hida City, this 36-metre dry-stone sabo dam still records the hand-laid masonry of the Taisho era.

Early Showa single-bay yakuimon gate of the Kojima house in Narukiyo, Kakamigahara, 2.3 m wide, with a clamped crossbeam and a finned, heart-pierced gable pendant.

A 1929 single-storey home in Ozano, Kakamigahara, with a tatami central corridor, a pyramid-roofed reception room and a half-hipped bedroom; registered in 2010.

Early Showa 2-storey main house of the Kojima family in Narukiyo, Kakamigahara: hipped-gable roof, 4-room grid with an earth floor, 13-mat zashiki, 188 sq m.

Early Showa earthen wall of the Kojima house in Narukiyo, Kakamigahara, running 18 m from the gate on a stone base, with washed mortar, green tile and white plaster.

Early Showa middle gate and garden wall of the Kojima house in Narukiyo, Kakamigahara: a 1.5 m log-framed udekimon gate and a 7.1 m copper-capped board fence.

Early Showa service wing of the Kojima house in Narukiyo, Kakamigahara, 9.7 by 2.3 m, lining up a well and washing area, bath and toilet behind white plaster walls.

The 1895 main house of the Goto family on the old Gujo Kaido in Gifu City, with six rooms in two rows and finely crafted transoms and fittings. Registered in 2021.

A 1937 post office built on the Goto family's land beside the old Gujo Kaido in Gifu City, with clapboard walls, sash windows and a skylit office. Registered 2021.

A tiny early-Meiji shrine for Jizo on the Goto family property in Gifu City, only 0.4 m² yet built with a curved head tie, bracket blocks and a kaerumata strut.

The oldest building of the Goto family compound in Gifu City: a late-Edo, 2-storey plastered storehouse valued as a survivor from before the 1891 Nobi earthquake.

An early-Taisho guest annex of the Goto family in Gifu City, with an eight-mat room, a tea room and refined sukiya joinery. Moved in 1970 and registered in 2021.