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A 1940 tea room at a Fukuoka girls' school: a four-and-a-half-mat room with a daime alcove, a preparation room with a hearth, and a T-shaped roof. Registered 2011.
A tiny 1940 waiting shelter beside the Senshinan tea room in Fukuoka: a tapering 1.4 m² plan, a cedar-bark beckoning roof and a bench of cedar and bamboo that bends.
The Najima Bridge of 1933 over the Tatara River in Fukuoka carries Route 3 on seven flat concrete arches, with classical balconies and domed newel posts.
The brick wall of about 1927 at the Lutheran church in Kurume, Fukuoka, shows seven arches between evenly spaced piers, a street frontage that matches the chapel.
Tetsugyuan, the tea house of the Nogata Tanio Art Museum in Fukuoka, was built around 1941 in sukiya style. Tea room, mizuya and waiting room run in one line.
The Nogata Tanio Art Museum Western Wing in Fukuoka was rebuilt around 1941 as the Okuno Clinic after a fire. Composite columns and tiled walls hide a timber frame.
Built around 1941 behind the Okuno Clinic in Nogata, Fukuoka, the Japanese Wing housed the family. A mud-walled storehouse at one corner holds the collection.
The Bairinji Tea House of 1958 in Kurume, Fukuoka, an early work by Kikutake Kiyonori, rests a roof-and-beam slab on a few columns behind walls of glass.
Kiku, the central annex of the former Ryokan Tagawa in Kokura, Kitakyushu, built in 1962, has deep eaves and a railed veranda that make it seem to float on the pond.
Genkai, the western annex of the former Ryokan Tagawa in Kokura, Kitakyushu, built in 1962, uses bamboo and logs in a hermitage manner with a modern ceiling grid.
Sugao, an annex of the former Ryokan Tagawa in Kokura, Kitakyushu, built in 1962, is a shoin-style sukiya that sets curtains between shoji and glass doors.
The corridor of the former Ryokan Tagawa annex in Kokura, Kitakyushu, built in 1962, links three sukiya rooms with a tiled floor, log posts and a bamboo ceiling.
The 1936 night duty annexe of the rush trade offices in Oki Town, Fukuoka. Plastered walls, an irimoya roof, two tatami rooms and a kitchen. Registered 2020.
A 1936 timber office in Oki Town, Fukuoka, built for the local rush trade. Clapboard walls with applied sticks outside, Art Deco ceilings within. Registered 2020.
Built about 1927 to store tea, Maedaen Honten Warehouse in Nogata, Fukuoka, is brick and timber clad in iron sheet, roofed on a king post truss. Now a rental hall.
Maedaen Honten Store in Nogata, Fukuoka, is a tea merchant's shop of about 1927, black-plastered and copper-clad on the upper storey. Registered 2013; now a cafe.
Built in 1936 in Daimyo, Fukuoka, this two-story house by the Housing Improvement Society splits guest and family rooms and stacks bay windows under layered eaves.
A 12-square-meter earthen storehouse of 1936 in Daimyo, Fukuoka, reached via a courtyard from the kitchen, with raked roof beams and star-pattern vent grilles.
The 1936 gate and wall of a Daimyo, Fukuoka house: a tiled munamon with lattice doors and a wicket, and a block wall in rough mortar matching the parlor beside it.
A tiny 1936 reception parlor in Daimyo, Fukuoka: hipped tile roof, rough mortar walls that flow into the boundary wall, and openings on all four sides.