Taishō
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A 1926 annexe to a Yoro sake brewery's fermenting hall in Gifu, pairing a Japanese-style inspection room with a Western-style tax office from liquor tax's heyday.
A 1924 sake shop beside the main house of a Yoro brewery in Gifu, 5.8 metres wide, its upper front in black plaster matching the house; shop in front, store behind.
A 1926 shed where a Yoro brewery in Gifu washed and steamed its rice: open on two sides, with a belt pulley still on its king post truss, smallest of seven listed.
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.
Kuwatani No. 1 Sabo Dam in Miyagawa, Hida, Gifu, built in 1921 just above No. 5, is a mortared stone dam 6.4 metres high with a sub-dam, set in a green valley.
Kuwatani No. 5 Sabo Dam in Miyagawa, Hida, Gifu, a dry-stone dam of 1920 at the foot of the stream, is 9.1 metres high, the tallest on the upper Jinzu River system.
Kuwatani No. 10 Sabo Dam in Miyagawa, Hida, Gifu, a dry-stone dam of 1920 in the middle of the valley, sits among woods that show what the sabo works achieved.
Kuwatani No. 2 Sabo Dam in Miyagawa, Hida, Gifu, built in 1921 above No. 1, is a mortared stone dam 6.4 metres high that forms a cascade of falls with No. 1.
Kuwatani No. 6 Sabo Dam in Miyagawa, Hida, Gifu, a dry-stone dam of 1920 at the head of the valley, keeps its first form and shows Taisho stonework laid by hand.
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.
The Komachi Sake Brewery Storehouse in Kakamigahara, Gifu, is a 1925 storehouse on a round-stone base, clad in black boards with bracketed canopies on the south.
A three-span suspension bridge of 1926 over the Hida River in Shirakawa, Gifu, registered in 2013, with steel towers and granite end posts.
At Shinryuji Temple in Gifu, a Taisho-era corridor joins a karahafu entrance and a small tea room with a round window and a sliding-slat window for sensing guests.
Main house of the Sumiyoshi Ryokan in Takayama, built in 1923 as a pawnbroker's shop and home, with a front lattice in Takayama's typical rectangle-over-square grid.
Late Taisho miso storehouse beside the Sumiyoshi Ryokan in Takayama, now its kitchen, fronted by a latticed lean-to that joins the main house on the street.
Pledge storehouse of 1923 beside the Sumiyoshi Ryokan in Takayama, secured with earthen doors and iron grilles, its inner doors detailed in black plaster.
Taisho guest wing of the Senzairo inn at Yoro Park, built out on stilts, with red-plastered sukiya rooms named after plants and a three-storey moon-viewing platform.
The platform of Minoshi Station on the Nagaragawa Railway in Mino, Gifu, a 98-metre stone platform of 1923, has a timber waiting shelter and canopies of old rail.
The main building of Minoshi Station on the Nagaragawa Railway in Mino, Gifu, a weatherboarded timber station of 1923, keeps the form of a Taisho state station.
Gifu Park's Nawa Insect Museum is a brick hall of 1919 by Takeda Goichi, the first registered property in Gifu Prefecture. Three Toshodaiji columns stand inside.