Taishō

Discover Honkan Kosekikan, a registered tangible cultural property in Ginzan Onsen. Experience authentic Japanese hospitality in this 1914 Art Deco-style inn featuring unique black inkstone and white Taisho-era baths, all-inclusive dining, and nostalgic Taisho romance atmosphere.

Discover Keishoden, the nationally registered treasure hall at Uesugi Shrine in Yonezawa, Yamagata. Designed by renowned architect Ito Chuta in 1923, this reinforced concrete hall houses over 1,000 artifacts including Important Cultural Properties—samurai armor, swords, and relics of Uesugi Kenshin, Naoe Kanetsugu, and Uesugi Yozan.

Discover the Uzen Kenren Corporation Scouring Building in Tsuruoka, Yamagata — a nationally registered tangible cultural property where Taishō-era silk scouring techniques continue to this day. Part of the Japan Heritage "Samurai Silk" story.

A rare early example of machine-woven wire gabion engineering in Japan, set along the wooded Kitazawa stream of the Shōbōji River in Tendō City, Yamagata. Built by the prefecture in the 1920s after the devastating flood of 1913, it was registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2005 and continues to function nearly a century on.

After the 1913 flood, this 2.4-metre stone check dam on the Shobojigawa is a small dam given a full secondary dam and revetment, completed in 1923; registered in 2005.

After the 1913 flood, this 3.2-metre stone check dam on the Shobojigawa is the dam with pentagonal crest stones, completed in 1923; registered in 2005.

After the 1913 flood, this 2.6-metre stone check dam on the Shobojigawa is the compact dam fitted to a narrow gorge, completed in 1923; registered in 2005.

After the 1913 flood, this 3.0-metre stone check dam on the Shobojigawa is a braced dam with a curved south wing, completed in 1926; registered in 2005.

After the 1913 flood, this 3.0-metre stone check dam on the Shobojigawa is the dam that opened the second phase of works, completed in 1926; registered in 2005.

After the 1913 flood, this 1.5-metre stone check dam on the Shobojigawa is the lowest dam in the group, completed in 1926 and listed as a cultural property in 2005.

After the 1913 flood, this 3.0-metre stone check dam on the Shobojigawa is the only dry-laid dam in the group, completed in 1926; registered in 2005.

After the 1913 flood, this 3.0-metre stone check dam on the Shobojigawa is a dam with a stone apron and revetment, completed in 1926; registered in 2005.

The Nakazawagawa Higashiyama Dam in Obanazawa City, Yamagata Prefecture, is a Taisho-era gravity-type stone masonry sabo dam built around 1920 after a devastating 1913 flood. As part of Yamagata's first prefectural sabo project, this 12m-long, 2.4m-high dam was registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2010. Located near the famous Ginzan Onsen, it offers a unique glimpse into Japan's pioneering disaster prevention engineering heritage.

The 1925 heart of the former Uesugi counts' residence in Yonezawa, rebuilt in pure Japanese style by Nakajo Seiichiro, its cypress hall open beside Uesugi Shrine.

On the north side of the Yonezawa City Uesugi Memorial Hall stands a plaster-walled dozo storehouse built to resist fire, completed in 1924 and registered in 1997.

The only two-storey building of the former Uesugi residence in Yonezawa, a 1925 guest wing by Nakajo Seiichiro whose banded corridor transoms shape its refined exterior.

Beside the main gate of the former Uesugi count's residence stands the guardhouse, built in the 1920s and registered in 1997. In 2019 it became the Nagomitei cafe.

A rear wing of the former Uesugi residence in Yonezawa holding the children's and maids' rooms, built in fine cedar to the same standard as the formal rooms.

A single-storey service wing of the former Uesugi residence in Yonezawa, with servants' rooms, a maids' room and a kitchen, plainly but finely built in cedar.

A registered storehouse behind the former Uesugi count's residence in Yonezawa. Built in 1925 as a rice store, this plastered dozo joins a rebuilt daimyo estate.