Taishō
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A 1923 dry-laid stone dam on the Kitasawa branch of the Shohoji River in Tendo, 24 m long and 3.0 m high, one of a closely spaced series sharing the sediment load.
A 1922 dry-laid stone dam on the Kitasawa branch of the Shohoji River in Tendo, 40 m long and 4.6 m high, with 1-wari spillway shoulders; foreman Sato Soichiro.
A 1922 dry-laid dam of rhyolitic welded tuff on the Kitasawa branch of the Shohoji River in Tendo, 27 m long and 4.6 m high, with revetments intact on both banks.
A 1923 dry-laid stone dam on the Kitasawa branch of the Shohoji River in Tendo, 25 m long and kept low, its spillway by the left bank, where bedrock takes the fall.
A 1924 mortared stone dam on the Kitasawa branch of the Shohoji River in Tendo, 47 m long and 5.0 m high, with long wings; among the larger Taisho dams on the river.
A 1924 mortared stone dam on the Kitasawa branch of the Shohoji River in Tendo, 31 m long, with rounded crest ends and spillway corners and an apron in front.
A 1923 mortared stone dam on the Kitasawa branch of the Shohoji River in Tendo, laid in diagonal tanizumi coursing: one of Japan's early mortared sabo dams.
A 1924 mortared stone dam on the Kitasawa branch of the Shohoji River in Tendo, 25 m long and 3.0 m high; its low series eased the bed and let trees return.
Built in 1925 and enlarged in 1942 on the Kitasawa branch of the Shohoji River in Tendo: a 48 m mortared stone dam with an apron and a secondary dam below it.
A 1923 dry-laid stone dam on the Kitasawa branch of the Shohoji River in Tendo, 23 m long and 3.2 m high, with larger stones set low where sediment presses hardest.
A 1922 dry-laid stone dam on the Kitasawa branch of the Shohoji River in Tendo, just 1.8 m high but built with a wide crest to bear sediment from the Tanukisawa.
A 1923 dry-laid stone dam on the Kitasawa branch of the Shohoji River in Tendo, 27 m long, with stones set upright at the spillway corners to brace the wings.
A 1922 dry-laid stone dam on the Kitasawa branch of the Shohoji River in Tendo, 34 m long and 4.6 m high, its spillway notch set toward the left bank.
A 1923 dry-laid stone dam on the Kitasawa branch of the Shohoji River in Tendo, 26 m long, with a well-kept apron of big stones and a fine tanizumi embankment.
Seven wire-gabion groynes of 1924 below the No. 15 dam on the Shohoji River in Tendo: Kawasaki-type hexagonal-mesh gabions stacked two high, saddled on top.
A 1923 mortared stone dam on the Tanukisawa ravine of the Shohoji River in Tendo, only 7.0 m long yet given a secondary dam, revetments and a square drain hole.
A 1923 mortared stone dam at the foot of the Tanukisawa ravine of the Shohoji River in Tendo, 11 m long, its crest capped with pentagonal stones, with revetments.
A 1923 mortared stone dam on the Tanukisawa ravine of the Shohoji River in Tendo: at 6.4 m the shortest on the river, fitted snugly into a gorge cut by erosion.
A 1926 mortared stone dam on the Minamisawa ravine of the Shohoji River in Tendo, 15 m long, with a thick body, a south wing curving into the bank and a paved apron.
A 1926 mortared stone dam in the upper Minamisawa ravine of the Shohoji River in Tendo, 15 m long and 3.0 m high, the first of the second-phase works.