Meiji
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The Maizuru Bridge of 1886 crosses the moat of Yonezawa Castle on the approach to Uesugi Shrine, a wide stone arch known locally as the Spectacles Bridge.
Yamashiroya Nigura in Kaminoyama, Yamagata, is a late-Meiji earthen-walled storehouse registered in 2011, built to hold the working stock of a hot spring inn.
Built around 1875 in earthen storehouse construction, the Kannon-do at Ryuto-ji sits below Mount Chokai, its front beam carved with a dragon for the temple's name.
Built in 1909 in Iide, Yamagata, the Watanabe Rokurobei nagayamon is a two-storey plastered gatehouse with a brick base and a coffered ceiling over its passage.