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The smallest of the seven listed structures at Kogarasu Shrine in Fukuoka, this 1929 hall of 3.42 square metres stands on a granite podium in a corner.
The largest listed structure at Kogarasu Shrine in Fukuoka, this open worship hall of 1929 covers 35.09 square metres. Wisteria is carved above its canopy.
A stone pillar of 1929 standing 6.0 metres beside the worship hall at Kogarasu Shrine in Fukuoka, topped by a bronze three-legged crow and inscribed with donors.
Built in 1929 on the highest ground at Kogarasu Shrine in Fukuoka, this three-bay nagare-zukuri hall of 19.67 square metres was listed in 2019. A fence rings it.
A timber openwork fence of 1929 squaring the main hall at Kogarasu Shrine in Fukuoka, running 33.11 metres. Slatted panels let the hall show through it.
The Jokyu Soy Sauce Rear Zashiki in Fukuoka is an early Showa parlor building, the president's home until 1964, with an inventive alcove and trapezoidal cupboards.
A stone wall of about 1933 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka, about 48 m long, its Edo-kiri dressed blocks laid 5 courses high by the gate, 3 along the road.
A 2-story retirement house of about 1933 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka, with a Buddhist altar room, a bell-shaped window and a sukiya-style study upstairs.
A 2-story storehouse of about 1933 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka, which held serving ware and is joined to the retirement house by an arched corridor.
A side gate of about 1933 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka: a bracket-arm gate whose outer roof slope and side walls are laid with a local left-hand pantile.
A small storehouse of about 1933 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka, its plastered walls tiled only at the lower corners, with a copper-shuttered window.
A private archery hall of about 1933 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka, with a shooting floor, an anteroom with a Shinto altar, and a target house facing it.
A storehouse of about 1933 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka, with a clay-walled timber store and a wooden firewood store under stepped gabled roofs.
A 2-story building of about 1933 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka, used as servants' quarters until about 1945, with lattices fitted to its upstairs windows.
An earthen wall of about 1933 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka, 106 meters long, with plaster walls, bark or board at the base and local left-hand pantiles.
A barn of about 1933 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka: 10.1 meters long but 1.9 meters deep, its south face built as one with the earthen wall.
A target house of about 1933 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka, facing the archery hall, with an open front under a curved tie beam and cedar bark walls.
A firewood shed of about 1933 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka, open at the front and roofed with local left-hand pantiles; the smallest of the 18.
The Tadokoro Shoten Warehouse in Yahata, Kitakyushu, an early Showa store for tea, is an L-shaped building of local slag brick under an irregular hipped roof.
A 1955 tea pavilion at a Fukuoka girls' school: ten- and fifteen-mat shoin rooms ringed by a veranda, a small tea room and a tiled gable roof. Registered in 2011.