Taishō
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Yoshitei Honya in Yonezawa, Yamagata, is a two-storey silk merchant's house of about 1919. Registered in 2003, its Akita cedar rooms now serve a beef restaurant.
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.
The smallest of the buildings at the former Uesugi count's residence in Yonezawa, this 24-square-meter registered cultural property shelters a single family altar.
The former Uesugi residence in Yonezawa is fronted by a single-bay yakuimon gate with a curved copper roof, rebuilt after a 1919 fire and now a registered property.