Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Yamagata

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.

A 1927 mortared stone dam on the Minamisawa ravine of the Shohoji River in Tendo, 24 m long and 3.0 m high, one of a row of dams all built about 10 shaku tall.

A 1927 mortared stone dam on the Minamisawa ravine of the Shohoji River in Tendo, 26 m long and 3.0 m high; from here downstream the spillway notches are made wider.

A 1927 mortared stone dam at the foot of the Minamisawa ravine of the Shohoji River in Tendo, 31 m long, set on a concrete levelling course poured over bedrock.

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.

Seifuso in Momiji Park, Yamagata City, was the shoin of Hodoji temple: a late Edo hall whose raised jodan-no-ma keeps an alcove, shelves and a garden-facing bay.

Seba Sabo Dam of 1953 crosses the Tatsuyazawa River in Shonai Town, Yamagata: a 193-metre wall of hand-laid cobblestone concrete that drops water in four stages.

A Registered Tangible Cultural Property at Zenpoji in Yamagata, built by fishing communities as Japan's only pagoda memorializing the fish taken from the sea.

A Registered Tangible Cultural Property at Zenpoji in Yamagata, built in 1855 by northern-trade merchants, its tiered altars holding over five hundred rakan figures.

A Registered Tangible Cultural Property at Zenpoji in Yamagata, a late-Edo two-story gate holding Bishamonten and Idaten as guardians rather than the usual temple kings.

A Registered Tangible Cultural Property at Zenpoji in Yamagata, a compact four-legged gate covered in deep carvings of waves, animals, and the twelve zodiac signs.

A Registered Tangible Cultural Property at the innermost point of Zenpoji in Yamagata, its wave-shaped roof modeled on the undersea dragon palace of the sea deity.

A Registered Tangible Cultural Property at Zenpoji in Yamagata, a quiet hall keeping the temple's earlier name and holding a cloud-and-dragon ceiling painting.

Sōmaya Shuoku in Sakata, Yamagata, is a registered cultural property of about 1895, built around the earthen storehouses that survived the 1894 quake and fire.