Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Yamagata

City hall of 1967 in Sagae, Yamagata, an early work by Kurokawa Kisho with upper floors hung from four cores and an Okamoto Taro sculpture; still in use today.

Former ryotei of 1895 by the master carpenter Sato Taitaro in Sakata, Yamagata, used by Kitamaebune shipowners; now open with displays on local history.

Nine wire-gabion groynes of 1925 below the No. 16 dam on the Shohoji River in Tendo: Kawasaki-type gabions two tiers high, densely saddled: the sturdiest type.

The uppermost stone dam on the Kitasawa branch of the Shohoji River in Tendo, built in 1922: 14 m long, 4.6 m high, dry-laid dressed stone in level courses.

Built in 1922 about 55 m below the No. 1 dam on the Kitasawa branch of the Shohoji River in Tendo: a 29 m dry-laid stone dam, battered alike on both faces.

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.

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