Taishō
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The Yahiko Shrine Norito Hall in Niigata, built in 1916 between the offering hall and worship hall, has a gabled roof meeting both and a post-free beamed interior.
The Yahiko Shrine Worship Hall in Niigata, rebuilt in 1916, is a 9-by-5-bay hall with a cusped kara-hafu porch and a post-free interior spanned by a great tie beam.
The Yahiko Shrine Offering Hall in Niigata, built in 1916, links worship hall and sanctuary; tatami inside, outside a three-bay nagare-zukuri like the main hall.
The Yahiko Shrine Main Hall in Niigata was rebuilt in 1916 to designs by Ito Chuta after the 1912 fire, a three-bay nagare-zukuri hall set against Mount Yahiko.
The Yahiko Shrine Dance Hall in Niigata, a 1916 kagura stage open on four sides, is the only building in the grounds with fan rafters, joined to the musicians' hall.
The Yahiko Shrine Mizugaki Fence and Rear Gate in Niigata enclose the main hall with 56.2 metres of lattice fence on stone and a cusped-roof gate, built in 1916.
A 112 m snow shed of 1922 over the switchback siding at Nihongi Station, Joetsu: old-rail frames clad in gapped timber boards. Registered 2019; seen by train.
Okozu Diversion Weir in Tsubame, Niigata: a 146-metre weir of 1922 at the Shinano River's flood channel, considered Japan's first full-scale concrete weir.
Kappo Miyoya, a Taisho-era (1912–1925) restaurant on the old coastal highway in Izumozaki, Niigata, has a veranda, a hammer-beam gable and plaster angels.
A 1915 two-storey guest building at the Kansuiro inn, Murasugi Onsen, Agano: central porch, east veranda, Western-style eaves and sukiya rooms. Registered in 2016.
Completed in 1924 behind a courtyard in Niigata's Furumachi quarter, this wing holds an eighteen-mat guest room with a burled log alcove post and a round window.
Attached to the main house, this two-storey plaster storehouse carries saffron petals on its gable and dragons on its inner doors, an early work in the lime-relief craft.
Iron sheet covers the roof, base and inner walls of this storehouse at the southwest corner, rumoured to have made fireworks though its original use is unknown.
Attached to the rear of the main house, this storehouse held the brewing tanks and raw stock, its four free-standing pillars carrying the roof over the tonic-sake floor.
Attached north of the main house, this storehouse held the drug store and bottling floor where herbs became the tonic sake, roofed on a queen-post truss.
The largest storehouse of the compound stands behind the main house, its six free-standing pillars carrying the roof over a floor of roughly 219 square metres.
The Gyokusendo Gangi is a Taisho-era covered walkway facing a street in Tsubame, registered in 2008. It is 9.2 m long and 1.3 m deep with an asymmetrical tiled roof.
The Gyokusendo Forging Shop is a Taisho-era workshop in Tsubame, registered in 2008. Artisans hammer copper on tatami beside hearths, and free tours are offered.
The Gyokusendo Storehouse is a 2-storey Taisho clay storehouse in Tsubame, registered in 2008, with white plaster walls, a detached roof and stepped fireproof doors.
The Kuzuresawa Stone Chute in Myoko, Niigata, is a rare 1920s sabo work: a 12 m stone-paved channel on a 25% slope built with a ground sill. Registered 2003.