Shōwa
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A 1931 timber corridor linking the entrance and main building of the Yunoshimakan inn in Gero, with an exposed-roof ceiling, red walls, lattice and cedar bark.
An early Showa two-storey house in Kasamatsu, Gifu, built by a Kyoto carpenter for a silk-farming family, with a coffered altar-room ceiling and stained glass.
An early Showa two-storey storehouse in Kasamatsu, Gifu, raised on a tortoise-shell stone base with heavy clay shutters and registered in 2017 for its streetscape.
Early Showa gate and 18-meter wall of the Wada house in Kasamatsu, Gifu: black plaster toward the street, bamboo and cedar bark toward the garden. Registered 2017.
A 1934 guest pavilion at Hida Furukawa's Hourai sake brewery: clay storehouse walls, a stone-effect mortar face to the river, tatami below and Western room above.