Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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The Hanada-Imai Gate and Fence in Mimayano, Gero, date to about 1956. A plaster wall runs 38 metres west from the main house, with a simple bracketed gate beside it.
Built in 1928 in Kawashima, Kakamigahara, the Mizuno Family Residence Main House is a full two-story farmhouse that keeps the layout of a modern silk-farming home.
The Mizuno Family Residence Main House in Gujo Hachiman is a Taisho-era townhouse with a continuous upper-floor lattice, deep eaves and a rare udatsu; listed 2007.
The Mizuno Family Residence Storehouse is a small Meiji kura in Gujo Hachiman with white plaster walls, an arabesque window head and a shingled eave; listed 2007.
House of 1893 at Okute-juku on the Nakasendo in Mizunami, Gifu, once the inn and freight house of the "Shinmori" branch of the Morikawa family, with a lattice front.
Town house of about 1930 on the old Nakasendo at Unuma-juku, Kakamigahara, with a grey plaster front, lattices and a tiled pent roof on the post-town street.
The great hall wing of the Yatsusankan inn in Hida-Furukawa, Gifu, built in 1935 behind the main building, holds a 100-mat banquet hall of fine timber upstairs.
The storehouse of the Yatsusankan inn in Hida-Furukawa, Gifu, from the late Meiji era, is a large two-storey storehouse between the wings, framed in massive timbers.
The main building of the Yatsusankan inn in Hida-Furukawa, Gifu, built in 1905 at the foot of a bridge, has an open hall and guest rooms each in a different design.
Chikusetsuro, the Yabashi Family Residence Retirement House in Ogaki, dates to 1805 and is the estate's oldest building, a single storey under a two-tier roof.
The Yabashi Family Residence Front Gate in Ogaki dates from 1848 to 1854. Its black-plastered, board-skirted walls echo the Main House and lead guests to the Shoin.
The Yabashi Family Residence Main House is an 1833 townhouse on the old Nakasendō in Ogaki, with a low tsushi-nikai upper floor, black-plastered eaves and lattice.
The Yabashi Family Residence Shoin (Kootei) in Ogaki is a Kaei-era reception wing whose black-plastered step, scored earthen floor and woven dado show sukiya craft.
The Yabashi Family Residence Tea House in Ogaki dates to about 1868. Joined to the Shoin, it holds a tea room and mizuya, with slender knotted posts and deep eaves.
The Yabashi Family Residence Middle Storehouse in Ogaki is a Tenpō-era kura of 52 square metres with a gable-end door facing the Main House and shutters upstairs.
The Yabashi Family Residence West Storehouse in Ogaki, built c. 1868, is the largest of its 3 kura at 61 square metres, with 2 doorways and many plastered shutters.
The Yabashi Family Residence East Storehouse in Ogaki is the smallest of 3 Tenpō-era kura, at 29 square metres, with a covered doorway and notched-batten siding.
Gravity sabo dam of 1940 on the Yotsume River in Nakatsugawa, Gifu, the first of the works after the river's disaster: 42 metres long, faced in diagonal masonry.
Wooden fire lookout on a building of Yamazakura Shrine in Takayama, moved here in 1932: a 7-metre three-stage tower with a pyramid-roofed hut and an 1881 alarm bell.
Built in 1931 for the Yunoshimakan inn in Gero, Gifu, this entrance stacks two hip-and-gable roofs at right angles above black plaster walls. Registered in 2010.
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