Taishō
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The 1919 intake of the Gami power station on the Sato River in Hitachiota, Ibaraki: a stone-faced weir with an arched crest, two sluice gates and a settling basin.
The 1919 outfall and spillway of the Gami power station in Hitachiota, Ibaraki: 299 m of finely stone-lined channels with an arched concrete service bridge.
The 1919 timber powerhouse of the Gami hydroelectric station in Hitachiota, Ibaraki, with clapboard walls, a clerestory and Pratt-truss roof; still in use.
Building No. 1 of the former Asakawa Elementary School in Daigo, Ibaraki, built in 1913, is a 39-metre timber school with two tiers of windows and a roof clock.
A wooden 2-storey former inn on the Hinuma River in Oarai, Ibaraki. Registered in 2007, it shows deep eaves on a projecting purlin and a latticed ground-floor bay.
An early Taisho townhouse in Ryugasaki. Its 5 ken front carries a tiled lean-to, and inside stands a principal post 36 centimetres square. Registered in 2004.
A 1917 timber theatre in Hitachi, Ibaraki, built by the Hitachi Mine on the Kabukiza model for about 1,800 people, registered in 1999 and now a martial arts hall.
The former head office of Daigo Bank, built in 1917 on a corner of the old highway in Daigo, Ibaraki, has a domed tower and a pedimented entrance, a local landmark.
A Taisho stock storehouse behind a draper's shop in Hojo, Tsukuba, black-plastered with a boarded north gable. Registered in 2015 and closed to visitors.
A Taisho grain store on the east edge of a draper's plot in Hojo, Tsukuba: a thin white-plastered single storey with a bath added later. Registered 2015.
A Taisho service block northeast of a draper's house in Hojo, Tsukuba: cooking room, bath and privy in one file, built detached. Registered in 2015 and closed.
A Taisho draper's shop in Hojo, Tsukuba, its 2 black-plastered gable ends facing the old road to Mount Tsukuba. Registered in 2015; ground floor open free.
A Taisho-era stone storehouse in Koga, Ibaraki, walled in cut Oya tuff with single long stones at each doorway. Registered in 2000, it now holds a small hall.
A Taisho house of around 1921 behind the family shop in Makabe, Sakuragawa City. Its plan sets a 6-mat Western room beside a 10-mat altar room. Registered in 2004.
The Daigo Cafe shop-house in Daigo, Ibaraki, a corner town house of 1916, joins a two-storey shop to a one-storey home, with a railed upper floor and beams.
The Daigo Cafe storehouse in Daigo, Ibaraki, built in 1912 for the hardware shop next door, is a white plastered store with black trim and namako tiles at its base.
Built at Oarai in 1917, the house joined a German-sided Western clinic wing to a Japanese living wing. Registered in 2005, privately owned, viewable from the street.
The main house of the Tsukamoto family in Makabe, Ibaraki, built in 1924 behind the shop, has stone and white-plastered walls and three original rooms upstairs.
The shop building of the Tsukamoto family in Makabe, Ibaraki, of the mid-Taisho period, faces Kamijuku street and holds an earth floor and a counting room.
Tenkoku Art Museum Rear Storehouse, a stone warehouse of 1920 in Koga, Ibaraki, shows an exposed king post truss and a roof monitor over Exhibition Rooms 3 to 5.