Taishō
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A 1926 mortared stone dam on the Minamisawa ravine of the Shohoji River in Tendo, just 1.5 m high to fit the land, with rounded spillway corners and a paved apron.
A 1926 stone dam on the Minamisawa ravine of the Shohoji River in Tendo, the only dry-laid one there: diagonal coursing without mortar, laid back at a gentle 5 bu.
A 1926 mortared stone dam on the Minamisawa ravine of the Shohoji River in Tendo, 17 m long and 3.0 m high, with an apron and revetments that keep the banks stable.
A Taisho-era storehouse in Yamagata facing the brewery's main house across the highway, with deep eaves and a lean-to; it keeps the site's layout before the road.
A mortared stone sabo dam built 1916 to 1920 on the upper Nakazawa River in Obanazawa, Yamagata, among the prefecture's first after the 1913 floods. Registered 2010.
A Taisho brewing storehouse at the back of the Naganuma sake brewery in Nagai, Yamagata: 19 m long, lime-plastered, with an iron door and a trussed roof.
A Taisho two-storey storehouse at the Naganuma sake brewery in Nagai, Yamagata: lime plaster, iron doors in local stone, tanks on a concrete floor, trussed roof.
A long earthen storehouse facing Tokamachi Street at the Naganuma brewery in Nagai, Yamagata: three older kura joined for rice polishing. Registered in 2008.
Built in 1922 and registered in 2015, Uzen-Narita Station in Nagai City is a 99-square-metre wooden station house with geometric cutwork around its ticket window.
Nishi-Otsuka is the only Flower Nagai Line station left from its light railway days, pairing a 78-square-metre wooden building with a 104-metre stone platform.
Yamashiroya Kyukan in Kaminoyama, Yamagata, is a 1918 timber inn building registered in 2011. Glazed corridors wrap guest rooms that face the Zao mountains.
Yoshitei Kita-dozō in Yonezawa, Yamagata, is a plastered storehouse of about 1919, registered in 2003. It packs three floors and a basement into 46 square metres.
Yoshitei Honya in Yonezawa, Yamagata, is a two-storey silk merchant's house of about 1919. Registered in 2003, its Akita cedar rooms now serve a beef restaurant.
The 1925 heart of the former Uesugi counts' residence in Yonezawa, rebuilt in pure Japanese style by Nakajo Seiichiro, its cypress hall open beside Uesugi Shrine.
On the north side of the Yonezawa City Uesugi Memorial Hall stands a plaster-walled dozo storehouse built to resist fire, completed in 1924 and registered in 1997.
The only two-storey building of the former Uesugi residence in Yonezawa, a 1925 guest wing by Nakajo Seiichiro whose banded corridor transoms shape its refined exterior.
Beside the main gate of the former Uesugi count's residence stands the guardhouse, built in the 1920s and registered in 1997. In 2019 it became the Nagomitei cafe.
A rear wing of the former Uesugi residence in Yonezawa holding the children's and maids' rooms, built in fine cedar to the same standard as the formal rooms.
A single-storey service wing of the former Uesugi residence in Yonezawa, with servants' rooms, a maids' room and a kitchen, plainly but finely built in cedar.
A registered storehouse behind the former Uesugi count's residence in Yonezawa. Built in 1925 as a rice store, this plastered dozo joins a rebuilt daimyo estate.