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Built in 1947, this office supported the firm's postwar export growth. Facing the new road east, it has a plastered reception room and an entry porch.
The firm's Middle Warehouse, its king-post truss left exposed inside. Used in the electric-kiln era, its build year differs between sources, as the article notes.
Built in the early Showa era to store ceramics, roofed by a large king-post truss that opens a column-free floor. It stands north of the New Shed on the slope.
Kirakutei in Toyota, Aichi, a former restaurant inn of the early Showa era moved to a garden, keeps its lattice front, railed verandas and refined rooms.
The Eikokan of Kinjo Gakuin in Nagoya, built in 1936 as a hall for the whole school and its chapel, has a Spanish-style exterior of red tiles and white walls.
Built around 1949 in Ichinomiya, Aichi, this L-shaped house joins living quarters to a storehouse wing and once held a women's dormitory. It was registered in 2020.
Built around 1955 in Ichinomiya, Aichi, this small block held separate bathing rooms for men and women next to a row of lavatories, and was registered in 2020.
Built around 1948 in Ichinomiya, Aichi, this single room under king-post trusses has held raw wool for its whole life. It joined the national register in 2020.
A 1932 wool mill in Ichinomiya, Aichi, registered in 2020. Its four sawtooth bays draw steady north light onto Schoenherr looms that still weave suiting cloth.
Built around 1932 in Ichinomiya, Aichi, this small office wears a boarded Western exterior yet holds two ten-mat tatami rooms upstairs. It was registered in 2020.
Built around 1957 in Ichinomiya, Aichi, this two-room timber store closes the line of buildings along the mill's western edge. It joined the register in 2020.
Built around 1952 in Ichinomiya, Aichi, this small block left its ground floor open as a passage and store, with three bedrooms above. It was registered in 2020.
Built around 1932 in Ichinomiya, Aichi, this hip-and-gable house holds eight tatami rooms and a shallow writing bay. Still a family home, it was registered in 2020.
The 1939 four-legged gate of Kozenji in Haguro, Inuyama, Aichi, finished entirely in zelkova with a finely grained ceiling and flowing ornament. Registered.
In Inuyama's old castle town, Sairenji's two-story shoin is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property, valued for the historic temple streetscape it preserves.
A 1927 wooden wing of the former Damine Elementary School in Aichi's Okumikawa hills, listed as a national cultural property in 2014 and closed as a school in 2024.
A 1927 timber schoolhouse in the Aichi mountain hamlet of Damine, this Registered Cultural Property was preserved by a seismic retrofit and used until 2024.
The largest of Shunkoin's seven registered buildings, this 1933 kuri held the kitchen and priest's quarters, with a modern corridor plan and bold beamwork.
Built in 1936 and the only copper-roofed building of the seven, Furokaku hides a refined sukiya interior behind a plain shell, with polished-log posts.
Completed in 1934 at a Zen temple in Inuyama, this east-facing main hall follows the six-room hojo plan with archaic boat-shaped brackets. Registered in 2012.