Taishō

A late Taisho workshop at the core of a Yuzawa brewery in Akita; soy sauce is heated, filtered and bottled under a king post truss and lantern roof. Registered 2024.

An early Taisho storehouse where soy sauce ages in 24 cedar vats at a Yuzawa brewery in Akita; some vats are too big for the door. Registered in 2024; on the tour.

Ryozeki Sake Brewery No. 3 Storehouse in Yuzawa, Akita, is an early Taisho earthen storehouse with no ridge tablet, sheltered by an outer roof that keeps off snow.

Ryozeki Sake Brewery Main Building in Yuzawa, Akita, is a 1923 office and home with a gabled front showing its wagoya beams. It holds Akita's registration No. 1.

Ryozeki Sake Brewery No. 4 Storehouse in Yuzawa, Akita, is a 1916 earthen storehouse designed from the start to store sake, wider than its other stores.

The office and residence of the Watanabe Hikobei Shoten brewery in Gojome, Akita, built in 1925, joins a street-front shop with a through passage to tatami rooms.

Reinforced-concrete bank branch of 1925 in Miyauchi, Nagaoka, moved in 1952 and opened in 2009 as a free museum of posters by Nagaoka-born designer Akiyama Takashi.

Ikinariya's front gate of 1914 is a sukiya-manner gate with a curved copper roof and korai-mon stance, a crane emblem carved in openwork above the door.

The Ito Family Residence Front Gate and Inner Fence in Gosen, Niigata, pairs a 2.1-metre bracket-arm gate with 21 metres of battened boarding, listed in 2005.

The Yahiko Shrine Stone Bridge in Niigata, a 1916 stone bridge over the Mitarashi stream, has a gently arched deck of 7 slabs and railings each cut from one stone.

The Yahiko Shrine Stone Corridor in Niigata, a 1916 walkway 5.7 metres long between offering hall and main hall, was roofed only for the transfer of the deity.

The Yahiko Shrine First Torii Gate in Niigata, a vermilion four-legged ryobu torii of 1916 at the end of the approach, is recorded by the Agency as 8.5 metres high.

The Yahiko Shrine Ema Hall in Niigata, built in 1916, has triangular gables front and back and shows prize plaques from contests once held at a sports ground nearby.

The Yahiko Shrine Gakusha Musicians' Hall in Niigata, built in 1916 beside the dance hall, has a raised musicians' platform and a deliberately plain tiled design.

The Yahiko Shrine Guardian Dogs in Niigata, a 2.1-metre stone pair of 1916 before the Zuishinmon gate, were designed by Ito Chuta and modelled by Shinkai Taketaro.

The Yahiko Shrine Drum Tower in Niigata, a small 1916 tower moved to its site in 1962, still has its great drum beaten 3 times a day, at dawn, at noon and at 10 p.m.

The Yahiko Shrine Saikan in Niigata was built in 1916 to lodge the emperor's envoy, with a shoin reception room and four more rooms, a sign of the shrine's rank.

The Yahiko Shrine Sanshuden in Niigata, built in 1916 as a kagura viewing hall, is a long tiled building beside the stage whose south shutters lift for the dances.

The Yahiko Shrine Shikojo Attendants' Hall in Niigata, a 1916 duty hall for priests, mirrors the food offering hall across the worship hall, with a railed veranda.

The Yahiko Shrine Sacred Food Hall in Niigata, the 1916 shrine kitchen behind the worship hall, has a palace-style front of lattice shutters behind a railed veranda.