Shōwa
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In Inuyama's castle town, the Miyataké family's 1931 earthen-walled storehouse, registered in 2006, keeps hand-laid cobble footings and a heavy vault-like iron door.
In Inuyama's castle town, this 1930s sukiya house turns on a faithful copy of the famed Kyoto tearoom Yūin. A Registered Cultural Property, it stays a private home.
A 48-meter timber-and-tile wall wraps a residence in Inuyama's castle town. Built in 1931, it is a Registered Cultural Property valued for the historic streetscape.
Just the front-left corner of this 1927 Tokyo bank survives at Meiji-mura: granite, Doric columns and Corinthian pilasters, with a viewing level over Iruka Pond.
The 1930 timber station building at the former terminus of the Meitetsu Mikawa Line in Toyota, Aichi, with a waiting room, office and clapboard walls.
The early Showa platform of the former Nishinakagane Station in Toyota, Aichi, a straight 36-metre granite structure without a canopy among the fields.
The 1927 timber station building of the former Mikawa-Hirose Station in Toyota, Aichi, with an open waiting room and a distinctive battened base. Registered.
The 1927 platform of the former Mikawa-Hirose Station in Toyota, Aichi, a stone platform raised in concrete that curves gently along the Yahagi River.
An early Showa storehouse in Ichinomiya, Aichi. Its white plastered gable faces the old highway beside the long eaves of the main house. Registered in 2008.
Attached behind Ryusenji's main hall in Shinshiro, Aichi, this 1931 annexe steps up from tablet hall to founder's hall. Carpenter Nakamura Keizo. Registered in 2013.
Built in 1955 at Ryusenji in Shinshiro, Aichi, this open bell tower of 6.7 square metres has inward-leaning chamfered posts, bracket sets and a coffered ceiling.
Kawabun's 1950 gate and 25 metres of roofed wall front Uonotana-dori in Nagoya, registered in 2005. Added eaves lend rank to a frame only 3.9 metres wide.
A detached room of 1950 to 1952 behind Kawabun's main house in Nagoya, registered in 2005. The 10-mat room covers 63 square metres, the corridor leading to it 52.
Built in 1937, registered in 2005: a 132-square-metre concrete kitchen behind Kawabun's main house in Nagoya, and the oldest of the compound's five listings.
Yoyotei at the Kawabun restaurant in Nagoya: a 21 square metre timber pavilion of 1950 to 1952, listed 2005. Round log posts, a kakekomi ceiling, and visiting.
The earthen walls of Renkeiji in Agui, Aichi, built in 1951 on either side of the great gate, run 17 metres on high stone bases and frame the temple front.