Shōwa
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An early Showa storehouse in Yurihonjo, Akita, sheltered with the middle storehouse inside one plain boarded shed that keeps driven snow off the earthen walls.
A tall 1949 end-gabled house in Masuda, Yokote, with a traditional white plaster gable framed in beams and posts, and a tall earthen passage lit by high windows.
Shinmei Shrine Ryobu Torii in Yurihonjo, Akita, is a timber gate braced by auxiliary posts, dated to 1842 by city sources and to early Showa by the national list.
Suzuki Sake Brewery's 1965 brewing storehouse in Daisen, Akita, sets a king post truss roof on a traditional nuki-braced frame; the youngest of its seven buildings.
The Sekita divider in Misato, Akita, a concrete ring of 1938 at the head of the Rokugo fan, splits irrigation water ten ways through 180 holes, an early example.
Tenshikan, the former Seien Maria-en of 1932 in Kosaka, Akita, was a kindergarten for the families of Kosaka Mine workers, a timber building in plain Western style.
This Protestant church of 1949 in Jumonji, Yokote, Akita, has a bell tower on its gabled front and a worship space without columns, a landmark in the town centre.
The main building of the Towada Hotel, built in 1938 above Lake Towada in Kosaka, Akita, is a three-storey timber hotel clad in Akita cedar, a fine large building.
Built in 1938, last of a row of warehouses, keeping a number with nothing left to count. A king post truss inside, washed granite on the signboard gable.
The council chamber of Noshiro, Akita, a timber hall of 1950 beside the city office, has a geometric front, close-set wide windows and a queen-post truss roof.
The first building of Noshiro City Hall in Akita, a concrete office of 1949, shows its rigid frame plainly on a 51-metre front, a fine postwar city hall.
The Moricho Ryokan Storehouse in Oga, Akita, is an early Showa kura with black-banded white plaster, relief-framed windows and a separate roof, now a sauna.
The Moricho Ryokan Annex in Oga, Akita, is a weatherboarded 1949 wing whose two upstairs alcove rooms and railed veranda now form the inn's single suite.
The Moricho Ryokan Main Building in Oga, Akita, is a 1934 Western-style timber inn with a mansard roof, mortar walls and a bat-adorned gable, still taking guests.
L-shaped residential wing at the back of a kimono merchant's estate in Yuzawa, Akita, with a formal alcove room; alone of seven registered as a model of design.
Low, steady earthen storehouse built in 1935 at the back of a kimono merchant's estate in Yuzawa, Akita, turned north-south with doors on two sides. Registered 2007.
Small early Showa concrete garage beside a kimono merchant's townhouse on the old Ushu Kaido in Yuzawa, Akita, with spiral brackets under its hood. Registered 2007.
Gable-fronted 1930s townhouse of a kimono merchant in Yuzawa, Akita, with stacked beams and deep green Seto glazed tiles. Registered 2007; open one day a year.
Smallest of four 1935 storehouses on a kimono merchant's estate in Yuzawa, Akita, with hinged window shutters under hoods carried on brackets. Registered 2007.
Long, narrow 1935 earthen storehouse on a kimono merchant's estate in Yuzawa, Akita, with a separately framed roof, hooded windows and no ornament. Registered 2007.