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The uppermost of three Sendai waterworks dams, finished in 1934 with the longest crest at 60.4 metres. A sediment outlet below its subsidiary weir keeps silt down.

The middle dam of three on the Aoshita River near Sendai, completed in 1934 and standing about 10 metres above the reservoir below. A forest path reaches a view.

Erected in 1934 beside Aoshita No. 1 Dam near Sendai, this broad stone monument carries a goat-head spout in front and a plate naming the engineers on its reverse.

Built in 1933 as the water source office above the first Aoshita reservoir near Sendai, this small concrete building curves its stair tower out and has portholes.

A small cobblestone weir of 1933 standing 518 metres above Aoshita No. 3 Dam near Sendai. A notch in its crest lets the flow of the river be read as a number.

The small protective hall before the Aoba Shrine worship hall in Sendai, dated 1931, is a gable-entry hall of 6 square metres carved to match the main hall.

The offering preparation hall of Aoba Shrine in Sendai, built in about 1929, is a hip-and-gable hall joined to the worship hall by a corridor for carrying offerings.

The 1927 openwork fence of Aoba Shrine in Sendai runs 87 metres around the main hall, with a cut-stone base, battened panels, lattice above and two wicket gates.

At Aoba Shrine in Sendai, a 1927 four-legged middle gate in the fence is joined to an open prayer recitation hall, both sharing the carved details of the main hall.

The 1927 worship hall of Aoba Shrine in Sendai, a five-by-three-bay hall with a copper hip-and-gable roof and coffered ceiling, closes the end of the approach.

Three-story cedar inn at Kamasaki Onsen, rebuilt 1941 after flood damage. Cedar through-pillars run from basement to top floor. National Cultural Property, 2016.

A 1930 earthen-walled sake shop in Kesennuma, Miyagi, registered in 2003, built on an irregular plot with parallelogram-cut timbers and rebuilt after the 2011 tsunami.

Completed in 1930 on Tohoku University's Katahira campus, this scratch-tiled block served as the school gate: a vaulted passage runs through it under the SKK crest.

This 1934 stable in Kurihara, Miyagi, is eleven metres long, with an earth floor, doorways widened for horses and deep segai-zukuri eaves beneath a thatched roof.

Completed in 1930, this L-shaped classroom building gathers its arch, stone cladding, and rooftop tower at the center of a rare symmetrical facade.

This 1929 laboratory pairs brick tile and arched windows with a plainer upper floor, its central entrance crowned by stained glass, in Sendai's Katahira Campus.

Completed in 1927, this concrete building with herringbone brick tilework survived the 1945 air raids as the last Faculty of Law and Letters building.

Built in 1932 and extended in 1935, this scratch-tile building with vertical piers and a stone entrance now serves as Tohoku University's headquarters.

The Former Marumori Post Office in Miyagi Prefecture, completed in 1935, is a wooden two-story Western-style building registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2009. Its scratch-tile ground floor, pebble-dash upper story, and dentil-decorated parapet capture the early-Showa fashion for modernist architecture as it reached small provincial towns. Together with the nearby Sairi Yashiki estate, it offers a window into the layered history of Marumori, a quiet town tucked along the Abukuma River.

A 1930 zashiki storehouse behind the Kakutaya shop, Toyoma, Tome City, built by a Yamada branch family, with an upstairs room of lacquered zelkova. Registered 2021.