Shōwa
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A 1935 farm warehouse on the Minamikubota estate in Ukiha, Fukuoka, clad in vertical boards, with a south lean-to open to the outside; newest of eight registered.
Built in 1960 beside the South Building, this concrete service block at Moji Golf Club in Kitakyushu keeps players' and caddies' routes apart; registered in 2014.
The 1960 main clubhouse by Antonin Raymond at Moji Golf Club, Kitakyushu: bare concrete frame, cedar-log trusses, shoji clerestories and a hooded fireplace upstairs.
A 1960 timber starter's hut at Moji Golf Club, Kitakyushu, in the clubhouse's orange-red, with exposed log beams and a band of waist-high windows; registered 2014.
An early Showa farmhouse in Tagomori, Ukiha, whose hipped thatch roof is layered with cedar bark, a local roofing now rare in these hills. Registered in 2024.
Ryotei Masa Front Gate and Wall, the 1954 gate and 107 m tiled wall around a ryotei in Nakasu, Fukuoka: a canopied west gate and board-faced wall, seen from outside.
Ryotei Masa Main House, a 1954 two-story dining hall in Nakasu, Fukuoka, with clay okabe walls, three rooms and an upstairs hall off central corridors, and access.
Ryotei Masa New Wing, a 1961 tatami wing in Nakasu, Fukuoka, with a 12-mat room, fusuma that slide into the walls, horizontal-bar shoji and a flat lit ceiling.
Ryotei Masa Kitchen Wing, a 1954 service wing behind the main house in Nakasu, Fukuoka, with a kitchen, office and reception room in the Yoshida Isoya manner.
Ryotei Masa Detached Wing, a 1954 garden pavilion in Nakasu, Fukuoka, with a moon-viewing veranda, a tea room with a naguri post and lattice window, copper eaves.
Reizenso in Hakata, Fukuoka, a concrete apartment block of 1958 with stepped terraces, survives from the post-war rebuilding of old Hakata and now houses artists.