Taishō

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Browse Gifu’s cultural heritage from the Taishō period (1912 – 1926). Filter by type and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.

59 total Gifu Taishō Period 1912 – 1926
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Mino Bridge
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Mino Bridge

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.

Azukisawa No. 1 Sabo Dam
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Azukisawa No. 1 Sabo Dam

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.

Azukisawa No. 3 Sabo Dam
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Azukisawa No. 3 Sabo Dam

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.

Azukisawa No. 2 Sabo Dam
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Azukisawa No. 2 Sabo Dam

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.

Imao Family Residence Rice Storehouse
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Imao Family Residence Rice Storehouse

A Taisho two-storey rice storehouse on the Imao estate in Kakamigahara, Gifu, registered in 2007, joined to the south wall of the estate.

Imao Family Residence Inner Gate and Wall
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Imao Family Residence Inner Gate and Wall

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.

Imao Family Residence Hanare (Detached House)
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Imao Family Residence Hanare (Detached House)

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.

Imao Family Residence Yakushido
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Imao Family Residence Yakushido

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.

Ueyama Family Main Building
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Ueyama Family Main Building

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.

Ueyama Family Residential Warehouse
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Ueyama Family Residential Warehouse

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.

West Storage Room of the Ueyama Family Residence
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West Storage Room of the Ueyama Family Residence

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.

Ueyama Family Residence East Wing
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Ueyama Family Residence East Wing

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.

Former Kitaokada Family Residence Main House
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Former Kitaokada Family Residence Main House

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.

Former Kitaokada Family Residence East Barn
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Former Kitaokada Family Residence East Barn

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.

Former Suda Dental Clinic
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Former Suda Dental Clinic

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.

Former Hayashi Clinic X-Ray Building
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Former Hayashi Clinic X-Ray Building

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.

Former Horiya Clinic
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Former Horiya Clinic

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.

Former Meitetsu Minomachi Line Mino Station Platforms and Tracks
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Former Meitetsu Minomachi Line Mino Station Platforms and Tracks

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.

Former Meitetsu Minomachi Line Mino Station Building
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Former Meitetsu Minomachi Line Mino Station Building

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.

Gyokusendo Sake Brewery North Brewhouse
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Gyokusendo Sake Brewery North Brewhouse

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.