Shōwa
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Small early Showa games-room building at Hakkakutei in Togane, a timber structure dressed in mortar scored to look like stone, under a hipped roof of red pantiles.
Early Showa two-storey inn building on Hakkaku Lake in Togane, with a 60-mat hall under a Yakusugi coffered ceiling and upstairs rooms each with its own little roof.
Early Showa single-storey bathhouse at Hakkakutei in Togane, with an L-shaped plan and a family bath decorated with chequered tiles and diamond and round openings.
In Narashino, Chiba, an eight-square-meter roof over a well holds a national cultural property listing, registered in 2003 within a grain wholesaler's compound.
In Tateyama, Chiba, the Beniya Store residence sits beside a shop made from an earthquake-surviving storehouse. From about 1926, it is a registered property.
On Noda's old Edo-River wharf, the Masuda family's early-Showa storehouse hides earthen walls behind mortar scored to mimic stone, a relic of lost river trade.
At a Nagareyama temple stands the Matsugaoka Type 1 Street Lamp, a fluted concrete post residents built to light their 1950s estate, the last of its kind intact.
An early Showa brick wall, 26 metres long and up to 4.3 metres high in Flemish bond, around the Inari Shrine corner of a Noda soy brewer's estate. Visible outside.
Mobara Ascension Church in Chiba, an Anglican chapel of 1933, has a Latin-cross plan, a half-timbered front gable and an entrance porch on paired Tuscan columns.
Built about 1955 at Ueno in Katsuura, this stone gate has granite piers 60 centimetres square and 2.4 metres high, with an opening of 4.0 metres. Registered in 2008.
Ryokan Matsunoie in Katsuura, Chiba, an inn of the early Showa period, is a two-storey timber building with an open upper floor and a cusped gable porch.