Taishō
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Built of Oya stone in 1920, Tenkoku Art Museum Front Storehouse rises 3 storeys on a 28.92 square meter plan in Koga, Ibaraki, and holds Exhibition Rooms 1 and 2.
Built in 1926 on the Satogawa, the Tokuda Power Plant Water Intake Station takes water at a weir 12 meters long and 2.0 meters high, 2 kilometers above the plant.
The Tokuda Power Plant Outfall Channel of 1926 returns water to the Satogawa along 34 meters of open channel walled in diagonal tanizumi cut stonework.
Completed in 1926 on the upper Satogawa, the Tokuda Power Plant Main Building is an 81-square-meter timber powerhouse, registered in 2004 and still running.
Built in 1926, the Tokuda Power Plant Spillway carries surplus water from the head tank to the Satogawa through 23 meters of culvert and 231 meters of open channel.
The Nakamura main house in Makabe, Sakuragawa, is the 1913 living wing behind a merchant's storefront warehouse, a refined timber home raised by a local carpenter.
The Nakamura storefront warehouse in Makabe, Sakuragawa, is a 1913 two-story misegura, its open lower front facing the street below a clapboard-clad upper floor.
The former Mitsukaido town office in Joso, Ibaraki, built in 1913, is a symmetrical single-storey timber building made to look like two storeys, now a library annex.
The Numajiri row building in Kaneda, Tsukuba, is a two-story early-Taisho structure (1912-1925), a workshop below and a silkworm room above, now used as a shop.
A twin-arch reinforced concrete aqueduct of 1918 in Takahagi, Ibaraki, still carrying water to a power station; its two arches earn it the name Megane, spectacles.
The brick chimney of the Buyu brewery in Yuki, Ibaraki. A Taisho-era structure about 11 metres tall, linked underground to the kettle room. A Registered Property.
The Hosaka Family Main House in Yuki, Ibaraki, is a single-storey Taisho house of 140 sq m facing the family's Buyu sake brewery. Registered 2011; exterior only.
The Hosaka Family Storehouse in Yuki, Ibaraki, is a 20-square-metre kura of 1922, dated by an ink inscription naming its carpenter. Registered 2011; exterior only.
The Miwa Family Residence Main House is a 49-square-meter timber wing behind a Makabe shopfront, where a 6-mat sitting room leads back to a formal 8-mat guest room.
A 28-square-meter plastered shop of 1912 to 1925 at Makabe, the Miwa Family Residence Shop Storehouse repeats the Edo storehouse form while opening wide for trade.
The stone storehouse of Murai Jozo in Makabe, Ibaraki, a Taisho warehouse twelve bays long, wraps a timber frame and king-post trusses in a skin of Oya stone.
The Yaguchi Family Residence Stone Storehouse in Makabe is an early Taisho granite building with a brick cocoon-drying room on its west face. Registered in 2005.
The Yaguchi Family Residence Detached Wing in Makabe is a Taisho guest building, registered in 2005. Its finest room, a 12-mat formal hall, sits on the upper floor.
Yugetsu Honten Hina Doll Storehouse in Mito, Ibaraki, is a black-plastered two-storey kura of 1916, registered in 2015. It still serves as a doll display room.