Taishō
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The Omori Family Residence Nagayamon Gate in Makabe, Ibaraki, is a small early Taisho gatehouse with doubled degeta eaves, registered in 2004 and seen from the lane.
Okujun Tenpo in Yuki, Ibaraki, is an early Taisho shop clad in copper sheeting, registered in 2005. It is still the buying floor where the house trades tsumugi silk.
A 1925 gravity concrete weir 20 metres long on the Satokawa, the Ozatogawa Power Plant Water Intake Station has a fish ladder and sluice gates and feeds the plant.
The Ozatogawa Power Plant Tailrace of 1925 returns water to the Satokawa along 142 metres of open channel, its dry stone walls crossed by 3 concrete arch bridges.
A 1925 reinforced concrete powerhouse on the Satokawa in Hitachiota, Ibaraki, the Ozatogawa Power Plant Main Building covers 186 square metres and still generates.
The Ozatogawa Power Plant Spillway of 1925 carries surplus water from the head tank down the hillside to the Satokawa, 281 metres in all, mostly as open channel.
The 1919 intake of the Gami power station on the Sato River in Hitachiota, Ibaraki: a stone-faced weir with an arched crest, two sluice gates and a settling basin.
The 1919 outfall and spillway of the Gami power station in Hitachiota, Ibaraki: 299 m of finely stone-lined channels with an arched concrete service bridge.
The 1919 timber powerhouse of the Gami hydroelectric station in Hitachiota, Ibaraki, with clapboard walls, a clerestory and Pratt-truss roof; still in use.
Tucked into the mountains of northern Ibaraki Prefecture, the Former Asakawa Elementary School Building No. 1 is a roughly 39-meter-long wooden schoolhouse built in 1913. Registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2018, it is a beautifully preserved example of the single-corridor school architecture once common in rural Japan. Discover this quiet rural heritage site in Daigo Town alongside attractions such as the spectacular Fukuroda Falls.
A wooden 2-storey former inn on the Hinuma River in Oarai, Ibaraki. Registered in 2007, it shows deep eaves on a projecting purlin and a latticed ground-floor bay.
An early Taisho townhouse in Ryugasaki. Its 5 ken front carries a tiled lean-to, and inside stands a principal post 36 centimetres square. Registered in 2004.
A 1917 timber theatre in Hitachi, Ibaraki, built by the Hitachi Mine on the Kabukiza model for about 1,800 people, registered in 1999 and now a martial arts hall.
The former head office of Daigo Bank, built in 1917 on a corner of the old highway in Daigo, Ibaraki, has a domed tower and a pedimented entrance, a local landmark.
A Taisho stock storehouse behind a draper's shop in Hojo, Tsukuba, black-plastered with a boarded north gable. Registered in 2015 and closed to visitors.
A Taisho grain store on the east edge of a draper's plot in Hojo, Tsukuba: a thin white-plastered single storey with a bath added later. Registered 2015.
A Taisho service block northeast of a draper's house in Hojo, Tsukuba: cooking room, bath and privy in one file, built detached. Registered in 2015 and closed.
A Taisho draper's shop in Hojo, Tsukuba, its 2 black-plastered gable ends facing the old road to Mount Tsukuba. Registered in 2015; ground floor open free.
A Taisho-era stone storehouse in Koga, Ibaraki, walled in cut Oya tuff with single long stones at each doorway. Registered in 2000, it now holds a small hall.
A Taisho house of around 1921 behind the family shop in Makabe, Sakuragawa City. Its plan sets a 6-mat Western room beside a 10-mat altar room. Registered in 2004.