Taishō
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A c.1924 timber wall, 19 m long, from the gate to the main house door at Kiryu's Morihide silk mill, parting lane and garden, with lattice windows in alternate bays.
Built around 1924 as home and office of Kiryu silk weaver Morihide, with a counting room, Western parlor and tatami rooms opening into a 28-mat hall for cloth.
A c.1924 two-story store behind the Morishima home at Kiryu's Morihide silk mill, entered from inside the house, used for finished cloth, with pebbled mortar walls.
A c.1924 timber gate, 2.7 m wide, at the south end of Kiryu's Morihide silk mill, with pass doors in its wings and 46 m of board and faintly purple concrete fence.
A c.1924 dye house at the Morihide works in Kiryu, topped with a raised vent roof for steam; it now holds indigo vats and hand looms as the museum workshop room.
A c.1924 dormitory for weavers at the Morihide works in Kiryu: an irimoya-roofed block with two ten-mat rooms and a gabled porch, later a processing workshop.
A c.1924 weavers' dormitory at the Morihide works in Kiryu, moved on rollers in 1981 and refitted with a slanted lean-to as the Orimono Sankokan Yukari reception.
A c.1924 office beside the Morihide factory in Kiryu, later used for warping, with a truss roof, glazed doors and a former boiler lean-to. Registered 2006.
A c.1924 warping shed at the Morihide works in Kiryu, with gabled ends, a sawtooth middle and gable boards cut in a sawtooth edge; now the museum exhibition hall.
A c.1924 two-story storehouse at the Morihide works in Kiryu with symmetrical windows, said to have held raw silk; now the Orikura gallery of the Yukari museum.
A c.1924 yarn-twisting room at the Morihide works in Kiryu, with wooden lattice windows, weatherboarded walls and plaster inside; now the museum study room.
A c.1924 shed at the Morihide works in Kiryu, built to store Jacquard pattern cards: two narrow ranges about 3 m deep joined at a bend, with a concrete east wall.
A c.1924 timber weaving shed in the southeast corner of the Morihide works in Kiryu, with a three-bay sawtooth roof and original south mortar wall. Registered 2006.
Four timber storeys raised in stages from 1921, the West Wing of Yokotekan keeps fourteen guest rooms of choice timber and fine transom work, no two of them alike.
Built in 1920, the year fire cleared the site, the East Wing of Yokotekan ranges glass windows and rafter-lined eaves in horizontal bands above Ikaho's stone steps.
Small steel bridge of 1912 on the Watarase Keikoku Railway in Kiryu, Gunma, one of the largest standard I-beam spans of its era, near the Kojise Gorge.
Steel bridge of 1912 on the Watarase Keikoku Railway at the Oguro and Watarase confluence in Gunma, 54 metres long, with three girders sized to its midstream piers.
Kamikanbai Station on the Watarase Keikoku Railway in Midori, Gunma: a timber country station of 1912 with office, waiting room and a rare wooden ticket barrier.
Tiny brick store of 1912 for lamp oil on the platform at Godo Station on the Watarase Keikoku Railway in Midori, Gunma, one of only three such stores on the line.
Curving stone platform of 1912 at Godo Station on the Watarase Keikoku Railway in Midori, Gunma, 107 metres long, with split-stone and cobble walls in original form.