Shōwa
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Iinuma Honke Rear Gate and Wall in Shisui, Chiba, dates from about 1954. A single-bay yakuimon 2.8 metres wide carries a wicket door, with short flanking walls.
Iinuma Honke Kinoene Storehouse in Shisui, Chiba, arrived about 1940 from a closed plant. A queen post truss spans it and its reception room has a marble floor.
Iinuma Honke Detached Annex in Shisui, Chiba, dates from about 1940. Formal rooms of 10 and 8 mats sit beside a corner tea room of bent, bark-covered timber.
The Ito Family Residence Storehouse in Kashiwa is an early Showa two-storey tool store with exposed posts and stone-look lower walls, a local type; registered 2018.
The Ito Family Residence Annex in Kashiwa is an early Showa guest wing joined to a thatched farmhouse, with a tiled roof and big bay windows, registered in 2018.
The Enomoto Family Residence Inari Shrine in Abiko, Chiba, is a tiny copper-roofed nagare-zukuri shrine of about 1958 with chamfered posts and curved beams.
The Enomoto Family Residence Main House in Abiko, Chiba, is an early Showa two-storey home with bracketed eaves, south-facing rooms and a hardwood alcove rail.
The Enomoto Family Residence Kettle House in Abiko, Chiba, is an early Showa hearth building with a ridge smoke vent, open lean-to and beams over an earthen floor.
The Enomoto Family Residence Main Gate in Abiko, Chiba, is an early Showa yakuimon of heavy zelkova, with 3 beams carrying the eaves and tall stacked ridge tiles.
Obara Family Residence Detached Wing, Tateyama, Chiba: a c.1929 guest pavilion with a reception room, a tea room, a round window and tinted plaster moldings.
Obara Family Residence Document Storehouse, Tateyama, Chiba: an early Showa earthen storehouse with stepped-plaster kakegonuri shutters and a timber-lined interior.
A 23-square-metre outbuilding on Iwasaki Hisaya's Chiba estate, its Oya stone walls faced in scratch tile right through the cornice. Registered 2013; exterior only.
Built in 1927 for Iwasaki Hisaya on his Chiba model farm, this registered villa hides concrete footings and gypsum board behind shoin rooms. Open since 2025.
A 1933 merchant house on the Kururi highway in Kimitsu, Chiba, registered in 2009. It sold sickles and bamboo well-drilling parts in a town of artesian springs.
A 1955 timber branch school in Sakura, Chiba, registered in 2021. Just two classrooms sit along one corridor, built to prewar conventions after the war ended.
A reinforced-concrete shelter under a grass mound in Narita, ordered by the Imperial Household Ministry and finished on 8 December 1941, the day war began.
The Nishihiro cannery in Choshi began as a bonito workshop, rebuilt in 1935 with timber trusses over a columnless hall and a tatami office above. Registered in 2018.
Oya stone at the base, three courses of local Choshi stone above, then English-bond brick corbelling out to a capped crown. Thirty-four metres, registered in 2018.
A 1931 single-storey wing of formal rooms behind a Sakura merchant's shop: altar and back rooms with verandas on a south garden, and a marble-lined guest lavatory.
This concrete building in Kashiwa, Chiba, built for an army regiment in about 1938, trained searchlight crews under a canvas sky; only two such buildings survive.