Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Gifu

An early Showa shop and home in Kamioka, Hida, Gifu, registered in 2014. A Western reception room sits on its townhouse front, with a Japanese guest parlour behind.

An earth-walled storehouse of 1892 in Gero, Gifu, just 21 square metres. A single line of black plaster crosses its white wall high up, sharpening it.

A single-storey timber house at the Okute post station in Mizunami, Gifu. A quatrefoil window sits in the low wall above its front eaves, with a crest beside it.

A former lodging house at the Ota post station on the Nakasendo in Minokamo, Gifu. Plastered to the eaves, it still leaves its head rails and brackets in view.

An early Showa storehouse in Kamioka, Hida, Gifu, registered in 2014. It has two storeys and a basement, and a lean-to from the main house roofs the floor around it.

An early Showa board fence in Kamioka, Hida, Gifu, registered in 2014. Its 18 meters of yamato-bari boards and lattice windows turn a corner around a front garden.

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 Umeda Family Residence Main House, home of the Myogaya hatago on the Nakasendo in Kakamigahara, Gifu, is the only Edo-period townhouse left in Unuma.

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