Taishō
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Yokotone Lock Gate in Inashiki, Ibaraki, is the last brick and stone lock built in Japan. Completed in 1921 and designated an Important Cultural Property in 2000.
A Taisho shop of storehouse construction in Yuki, Ibaraki. A road widening in 1934 cut a bay and a half from the front, leaving a gable meeting a half-hipped roof.
The Arakawa Family Residence Annex, a single-storey reception room of the early Taisho years, links the main house and the inner storehouse. It is not open.
A 19-meter concrete gravity weir of 1913 on the Okitagawa in Kitaibaraki, Ibaraki. Its right-angled intake gate turns the river into a conduit for the plant below.
An elliptical concrete tank of 1913 at Kitaibaraki, Ibaraki, where the open channel ends and the penstock begins. Two Stoney gates stand at its inlet.
A concrete desilting basin of 1913 below the intake weir at Kitaibaraki, Ibaraki. It measures 30 by 9 meters, and its side channel can flush its own sediment.
A 49-meter granite retaining wall of 1913 at Kitaibaraki, Ibaraki, built along the penstock between head tank and generating hall to hold the slope steady.
A single-storey concrete generating hall of 1913 beside the Okitagawa at Kitaibaraki, Ibaraki. Arched windows line its long wall, round ones the gables.
A 107-meter open channel of 1913 taking surplus water from the settling basin down to the Okitagawa at Kitaibaraki, Ibaraki. Its walls are diagonally coursed stone.
A 1922 two-storey dental clinic in Chikusei, Ibaraki, registered in 1999, rebuilt after a fire with timber clad in wire-mesh concrete, and still in use as a clinic.
A 1926 townhouse on Makabe's old jinya street in Sakuragawa, Ibaraki. Entered from the gable end, boarded in sasarako siding, with high upper eaves. Registered 2002.
A brewer's merchant house of 1912 in Isohama, Oarai, moved here in 1926. Deep dashigeta eaves shade the west and south of a near-square plan. Registered in 2006.
The Omori Family Residence Stone Storehouse in Makabe, Ibaraki, is a gable-entered store of 1917 with granite below and plaster above, registered in 2004.
The Omori Family Residence Main House in Makabe, Ibaraki, is an early Taisho shop and dwelling of a silk-reeling family, registered in 2004 and viewed from the road.
The Omori Family Residence Nagayamon Gate in Makabe, Ibaraki, is a small early Taisho gatehouse with doubled degeta eaves, registered in 2004 and seen from the lane.
Okujun Tenpo in Yuki, Ibaraki, is an early Taisho shop clad in copper sheeting, registered in 2005. It is still the buying floor where the house trades tsumugi silk.
A 1925 gravity concrete weir 20 metres long on the Satokawa, the Ozatogawa Power Plant Water Intake Station has a fish ladder and sluice gates and feeds the plant.
The Ozatogawa Power Plant Tailrace of 1925 returns water to the Satokawa along 142 metres of open channel, its dry stone walls crossed by 3 concrete arch bridges.
A 1925 reinforced concrete powerhouse on the Satokawa in Hitachiota, Ibaraki, the Ozatogawa Power Plant Main Building covers 186 square metres and still generates.
The Ozatogawa Power Plant Spillway of 1925 carries surplus water from the head tank down the hillside to the Satokawa, 281 metres in all, mostly as open channel.