Taishō
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Bannai River No. 10 Sabo Dam in Myoko, Niigata, built around 1926, is a 3.5 m stone check dam about 120 m from its neighbors in a landslide zone. Registered 2003.
Bannai River No. 12 Sabo Dam in Myoko, Niigata, built around 1925, is a check dam in fine tanizumi masonry with a sloping crest and stone nameplate. Registered 2003.
Bannai River No. 7 and No. 8 Sabo Dams in Myoko, Niigata, built side by side around 1926, hold back sediment and also feed irrigation water. Registered in 2003.
Bannai River No. 4 Sabo Dam in Myoko, Niigata, built around 1922, drops water in two steps over a stone apron to a secondary dam. Registered in 2003; how to visit.
Bannai River No. 6 Sabo Dam in Myoko, Niigata, built around 1923, is a low stone check dam whose deep 15 m notch opens the view up a stepped series. Registered 2003.
Hikagesawa No. 1 Ground Sill in Myoko, Niigata, is a 1920s stone ground sill, 30 m long and 5.0 m high, the largest of the Hikagesawa sabo works. Registered in 2003.
The Hikagesawa Upper Reach Ground Sills in Myoko, Niigata, are five cut-stone sills in tanizumi masonry on a 40% slope, built from the 1920s and registered in 2003.
The Hikagesawa Middle Reach Ground Sills in Myoko, Niigata, are 32 stone ground sills curving up a 30% slope over 302 m, built from the 1920s and registered in 2003.
Completed in 1921, the Hirata Dairoku Family Residence Main House in Sekikawa, Niigata, is a 504-square-metre brewer's home with shoin rooms and a beamed kitchen.
The Hirata Dairoku Family Residence Miso Storehouse and Rice Storehouse in Sekikawa, Niigata, is a Taisho-era clay store split into miso and rice halves.
A one-bay timber gate of 1915 at the Ito family's Niigata villa, with a gently swelling copper roof and lath-lined eaves that lead to the sukiya-style main house.
A three-and-daime-mat tea room of about 1925 in central Niigata, once thatched and later named 清行庵 by Aizu Yaichi. It can still be hired for tea gatherings.
A two-storey storehouse of 1915 at the back of the Ito family's Niigata villa, with hinged gable doors, tiled namako lower walls and white plaster above.
A 2.3-square-metre waiting bench of about 1925 in a Niigata tea garden, built of curved natural timber, facing the tea room with a wide window at its back.
A brick wall of 1915, about 3 metres high and 37 metres long, at the Ito family's Niigata villa: bare brick outside, mortar pilasters and shallow arches within.
A two-storey earthen storehouse at the Mori doctors' estate in Mano, Sado, clad in clapboard, with a plastered door and east windows and a glazed lean-to in front.
The Morohashi Family Residence Main House in Niigata City is a chumon-zukuri farmhouse of about 1921, plain outside but built with fine timber and old beams inside.
The Rengebuji Temple Mausoleum Shelter on Sado is a Taisho-era gabled building that protects the Toshogu and Taitokuin shrines, its once open front now latticed.
A Taisho-era tea room relocated around 1960 to become a 45-square-metre detached guest room, standing on a stone wall behind the main hall in Kashiwazaki, Niigata.
A small 1921 farm store on a stone wall above the old Aizu Kaido in Aga, Niigata, registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2024 for its role in the landscape.