Taishō
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Completed in 1916 across the Nagara River in Mino, Gifu, this 113-metre bridge is Japan's oldest surviving modern suspension bridge. Open to walkers and cyclists.
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.
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.
Single-story main house of the Kamiyama Residence in Tajimi, built late Taisho by tile maker and first mayor Sato Teiji, with veranda and moon-viewing platform.
Two-story clay-walled storehouse of the Kamiyama Residence in Tajimi, on a three-course granite base, namako plaster below, black plaster above, hinged gable doors.
Small west outbuilding of the Kamiyama Residence in Tajimi, a late-Taisho wooden building said to have been a live-in study, its entrance finished to echo the annex.
East wing of the Kamiyama Residence in Tajimi, a Japanese-style annex by the main house, its tiled bay-windowed room answering the estate's landmark Western annex.
A 1916 landowner's house in Ono, Gifu: 432 m², 17 rooms, a 45 cm central pillar, skylights and lightning rods. Listed 2012; ground floor open free on set days.
A late Taisho barn in Ono, Gifu, joined to the rice storehouse, with a stable, a carpenter's room and a miso room in a row and a firewood store under its east eave.
The former Suda dental clinic in Takayama, Gifu, a weatherboarded clinic and house of the late Taisho era, shows the taste for Western style among old townhouses.
Small two-storey X-ray building of the early Taisho period behind the former Hayashi Clinic in Gujo Hachiman, said to be the first X-ray facility in Gifu Prefecture.
Wooden clinic of 1920 in Gujo Hachiman with a washed-concrete front, overhanging upper floor, arched lower windows and plaster ornament on the porch brackets.
The platforms and tracks of the former Mino Station in Gifu, built in 1923, are two cobble-faced platforms with angle-steel canopies set around two surviving tracks.
The former Mino Station building in Mino, Gifu, built in 1923 as a tramway terminus, is a clapboard station with a decorated gable, a landmark since the line closed.
A 1926 earthen-walled fermenting hall at a Yoro sake brewery in Gifu, 10 by 6 bays, with a former koji room upstairs and a wide floor for rows of tubs below.