Taishō

Standing on the banks of the Iwai River in Ichinoseki, Iwate, the Sekinoichi Sake Brewery Former Sales Warehouse is a single-story earthen storehouse built in 1919 during the Taishō era. Its white-plastered gable is elegantly framed in dark, over-fired clay bricks. Designed by Kohara Yūsuke, an architect in the school of Tatsuno Kingo of Tokyo Station fame, it was registered together with six other brewery buildings as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 1999, and remains in active use as part of a working sake and craft beer brewery.

A tiny late Taisho outhouse at Sendaiya in Tono: 4.1 m², the only tiled roof of the six registered buildings, with deep projecting eaves and white shinkabe walls.

The Yokoya Sake Brewery Drying Shed in Senmaya, Iwate, is an open-sided late Taisho timber shed, 22 metres long, built to dry lignite fuel by the East Storehouse.

The Yokoya Sake Brewery Brewers' Kitchen in Senmaya, Iwate, is a small late Taisho timber kitchen where the crew cooked and rested during the winter brewing season.

Completed in 1916 across the Nagara River in Mino, Gifu, this 113-metre bridge is Japan's oldest surviving modern suspension bridge. Open to walkers and cyclists.

A hand-laid dry-stone sabo dam of 1919 in Hida, Gifu, 36 m long and 5.5 m high at a 1:1.5 slope, with a concrete spillway and apron. First sabo work on the Jinzu.

The uppermost Azukisawa dam in Hida, Gifu: a 1920 dry-stone sabo dam, 25 m long and 5.5 m high, whose lower 4 m now lie buried under a century of trapped gravel.

A 1920 dry-stone sabo dam in a ravine at Azukisawa, Hida, Gifu, 30 m long and 4.5 m high. Water glides down its 45-degree face in a thin sheet. Registered 2019.

A Taisho two-storey rice storehouse on the Imao estate in Kakamigahara, Gifu, registered in 2007, joined to the south wall of the estate.

The Taisho inner gate and wall of the Imao estate in Kakamigahara, Gifu, registered in 2007, with bamboo-inset doors and lattice windows screening the garden.

A Taisho detached house on the Imao estate in Kakamigahara, Gifu, registered in 2007, on a tortoiseshell stone base beside the garden and inner gate.

A small kasuga-style hall of 1925 facing the Imao estate in Kakamigahara, Gifu, registered in 2007, on a stone base with the family crest pierced in its doors.

Single-story main house of the Kamiyama Residence in Tajimi, built late Taisho by tile maker and first mayor Sato Teiji, with veranda and moon-viewing platform.

Two-story clay-walled storehouse of the Kamiyama Residence in Tajimi, on a three-course granite base, namako plaster below, black plaster above, hinged gable doors.

Small west outbuilding of the Kamiyama Residence in Tajimi, a late-Taisho wooden building said to have been a live-in study, its entrance finished to echo the annex.

East wing of the Kamiyama Residence in Tajimi, a Japanese-style annex by the main house, its tiled bay-windowed room answering the estate's landmark Western annex.

A 1916 landowner's house in Ono, Gifu: 432 m², 17 rooms, a 45 cm central pillar, skylights and lightning rods. Listed 2012; ground floor open free on set days.

A late Taisho barn in Ono, Gifu, joined to the rice storehouse, with a stable, a carpenter's room and a miso room in a row and a firewood store under its east eave.

The former Suda dental clinic in Takayama, Gifu, a weatherboarded clinic and house of the late Taisho era, shows the taste for Western style among old townhouses.

Small two-storey X-ray building of the early Taisho period behind the former Hayashi Clinic in Gujo Hachiman, said to be the first X-ray facility in Gifu Prefecture.