Taishō
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The stepped channel of the Ushibuse River in Matsumoto, Nagano, built in 1917 after Alpine torrent works, drops through nineteen stone sills along 141 metres.
A 1923 Art Deco powerhouse, the 247.8-metre Momosuke suspension bridge and the twin-arch Kakizore aqueduct in Nagiso, Nagano. Walk the bridge; view the rest outside.
Built in 1924 as Iijima Shoten's head office, this three-storey timber building near Ueda Station has scored mortar walls that imitate stone and now houses the shop.
A 1914 sake brewery building in Azumino, Nagano, where the yeast starter was prepared, with a koji room at its north end and a Western-style truss roof.
The office of the Ueda silkworm egg cooperative in Nagano, built around 1917 with a pedimented front, recalls the silk city that shipped 220,000 boxes of eggs.
In Matsumoto's Hofukuji post town the Ozawa family kept the honjin inn. Their gable-fronted main house, rebuilt in 1913, rises around a skylit three-storey atrium.
The former Showa Kogyo silk mill, a reeling shed of about 1925 now at Rekishi no Sato in Matsumoto, keeps the high windows and roof vent of a modern silk mill.
The Former Jorgensen House in Karuizawa is a 1926 summer villa of an American missionary, a gabled timber cottage with a sunroom entrance and a stone fireplace.
A 1921 head office of an Okaya silk filature in Nagano. Timber-framed but clad in brick tile, it saw the 1927 Yamaichi strike and now houses a weaving workshop.
A late Taisho shoin in Matsushiro, Nagano City: six rooms in two files, a tea room with a round window, and a floor raised to frame the pond garden beyond.
A 1923 plaster-walled merchant house on Komoro's old Hokkoku road, now a free exhibition hall keeping its shop counter and trolley rails. A readable piece of the old post town, minutes on foot from the castle ruins at Kaikoen park.
At the Sakai brewery in Chikuma, Nagano, the Taisho-gura looks like a storehouse but was the lodging where the master brewer and his winter workers actually lived.
The Shiohara Family Residence Silkworm Rearing House in Matsumoto is a long 1919 silk-raising building, registered in 2004, tall and with few openings.
The Shiohara Family Residence Main House in Matsumoto is an early Taisho farmhouse, registered in 2004, with a long ridge ventilator over upstairs silk rooms.
The Shiohara Family Residence Gate in Matsumoto is an early Taisho front gate, registered in 2004, with a ring-pattern ridge and board-and-plaster wing walls.
The Prince Shotoku Hall of Shorenji in Matsushiro, Nagano, rebuilt in 1912 after a great fire, is decorated inside and out with fine plaster reliefs of dragons.
The bell tower of Shorenji in Matsushiro, Nagano, built around 1912, is an open tower on a tall hexagonal stone base, visible from the street of the old town.
A 1912 timber gatekeeper's lodge with a half-octagonal front beside the main gate of Shinshu University's Ueda campus, moved twice and still a security office.
Zenkoji's Niomon Gate in Nagano, rebuilt in zelkova in 1918, houses Nio guardians by Takamura Koun and Yonehara Unkai, placed in reverse order. Registered in 2020.
An L-shaped Taisho-era rice granary at the Takeshige brewery in Motai, extending the front bin and marking a stage in the brewery's growth. Listed as hard to recreate.