Shōwa
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A c.1936 bracket-arm gate beside the main house entrance in Misato, Azumino, with single-plank studded doors, a shachi ridge ornament and angled sleeve walls.
A deep-eaved 1936 hip-and-gable house in Misato, Azumino, built for a mayor's and silk-reeling family, with carved transoms and a 32-mat hall for guests.
A c.1935 one-story wing in Misato, Azumino, built before the main house: timber-faced toward the house, plastered with namako tiles behind to match the storehouse.
The old station building at Yudanaka in Yamanouchi, Nagano, built in 1927, has open canopies, a gable over its entrance and Stick-style walls, now a meeting place.
Yokoyu River Dam, a 1944 sabo weir at Shibu Onsen, Nagano, fills the gap between two Home Ministry dams; at 3.8 m it is the tallest of eight and has a wing channel.
Yokoyu River No. 1 Dam, a 1938 concrete sabo dam faced in mortared stone, 48 m long and 3 m high, is the lowest of eight registered dams below Shibu Onsen, Nagano.
Yokoyu River No. 57 Dam, a 1927 Home Ministry sabo weir above Shibu Onsen, Nagano, is the longest of the eight at 58 m, with a gentle upstream and steep lower face.
Yokoyu River No. 3 Dam, built in 1936 right below the Kurokawa Bridge at the entrance to Shibu Onsen, Nagano, is a 40 m stone-faced concrete sabo dam, listed 2021.
Yokoyu River No. 2 Dam, a low 1937 sabo weir in Yamanouchi, Nagano, is faced with evenly sized river cobbles and forms part of a channel-works scheme, listed 2021.
The Momoyama Bath of the Yorozuya inn at Yudanaka Onsen, Nagano, built in 1951 to designs by Okitsu Kiyoshi, has a cusped-gable entrance and a temple-style frame.