Taishō
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Sabo dam begun in 1916 on the Midai River in Minami-Alps, Yamanashi, Japan's first built with cement, later raised with an arch on its gravity base; 22.6 m high.
Stone outlet of 1918 in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi, where a hydro waterway from Lake Kawaguchi leaves a tunnel and runs downhill in an open channel to a power station.
The stone upper mouth, built in 1913, of the Katayama Tunnel that sent treated water from Kofu's Hirase plant to the city: an iron-doored portal 4.6 metres wide.
The town-side mouth of Kofu's Katayama Tunnel, completed in 1913: a plain stone portal with an arched iron door, a nameplate above and an iron main inside the rock.
A 1913 stone portal, 14.4 metres wide, where the Arakawa intake conduit entered the Hirase plant; the only one of six Hirase sites registered as a model of design.
A tiny round concrete well house of 1913 at Kofu's Hirase plant, where a valve set the pace of filtration; a pedimented door bears an inscription read right to left.
A 1913 granite gate at the head of the tunnel that carried Arakawa River water to Kofu's Hirase plant, with a four-character tablet and edokiri-style masonry.
The Taishido at Minobusan Kuonji is a storehouse-style hall of 1912, plastered to the eaves above a stone base and linked to the veneration of Prince Shotoku.
The smallest of four listed structures at Yamagata Shrine in Kai City, this 1921 purification pavilion covers 5.1 square metres over a natural boulder basin.
At the southern entrance of Yamagata Shrine in Kai City stands a 1923 torii of reinforced concrete, 6.8 metres high and shaped like a wooden shinmei gateway.
The worship hall of Yamagata Shrine in Kai City, built in 1921, sets a stone-paved floor under a ceiling whose slope differs from the copper roof above it.
Built in 1921 at the north end of Yamagata Shrine in Kai City, this small shinmei-zukuri hall rests on a white plastered podium and was registered in 2016.
Yokoyama Sake Brewery Store in Nanbu, Yamanashi: a shop-house of about 1916 filling a triangular plot, with imitation-stone walls and a third floor added c. 1953.