Taishō
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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.
Taisho-era earthen storehouse beside the Ryokan Kaminaka in Takayama, plastered with a washed-mortar base. Each floor opens into the inn, so it has no stair inside.
A 43-meter dry-stone sabo dam built in 1921 above the Kamioka mining town, shielding the works from debris flows after the deadly 1920 disaster. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Hida, Gifu.
A 1921 dry-stone sabo dam in a Hida ravine, registered as cultural property in 2019. Its hand-laid stones shielded the Kamioka zinc mine that powered modern Japan.