Shōwa

A 1935 sawtooth weaving mill in Kiryu, Gunma, walled in Oya stone and registered in 2006. Converted in 1999, it now trades as a hair salon; view it from the street.

Two-storey timber storehouse of 1935 at the former Matsuoka Shoten in Kiryu, Gunma, fitted between the office and the house, with mortar walls and a separate roof.

Timber shop of 1935 in Kiryu, Gunma: an office, a fabric inspection room and a receiving area behind a brick-coloured tiled front with a relief and round window.

Built in 1938 as the record store of Manba town hall, this two-storey dozo in Kanna, Gunma pairs clay walls with a slate roof and iron doors. Now Gallery Yorozu.

Textile guild office of 1934 in Kiryu, Gunma, a timber Western-style building with scratch-tiled walls and green tiles, now the free Kiryu Textile Memorial Museum.

A 1932 reinforced concrete distribution reservoir on the Tsutsumi-cho hill in Kiryu, Gunma, registered in 1997, part of the city's early Showa waterworks.

Former waterworks storehouse of 1932 in Kiryu, Gunma, built of concrete but dressed as a traditional kura; now used as the community centre's plant room and store.

Former waterworks office of 1932 in Kiryu, Gunma, now the Nishi Community Center: Art Deco, with stone-scored walls, curved openings and a 1956 council floor.

Early-Showa public hall in Maebashi, Gunma, by Sato Koichi, facing the prefectural office he also designed; stone below, scratch tile above, and still in use today.

Prefectural office of 1928 in Maebashi by Sato Koichi, now the Showa Building, with scratch-tile walls and an arched porch; Gunma's first registered property.

The Koonji Temple Stone Storehouse in Chiyoda, Gunma, is a two-storey Ōya stone store of about 1933, with a tiled lean-to and hooded windows, registered in 1999.

A 1933 shelter at Goto Textile Mill in Kiryu over a stone-lined well 1.4 metres across, the source of dye water, with inward-leaning posts and iron walls.

A 1949 kettle house at Goto Textile Mill in Kiryu, rebuilt after wartime removal, where a brick furnace with five firing mouths still holds its iron kettles.

A 1933 reinforced-concrete tower at Goto Textile Mill in Kiryu, 5.7 metres tall, whose tank held well water pumped by the factory motor for dyeing silk.

A timber weaving shed built in 1948 after wartime requisition at Goto Textile Mill, Kiryu. Sawtooth bays were added in 1949 and 1950 as weaving resumed.

A 1936 single-storey store behind the factory at Goto Textile Mill in Kiryu, one open room built to hold the punched jacquard cards for its obi designs.

The Kobayashi Family Residence Stone Wall in Kiryu, Gunma, is an 82-metre cobble flood wall of about 1953, built after typhoon floods to guard a silk mill and house.

The Kobayashi Family Residence Factory in Kiryu, Gunma, built in 1948, joins four gabled sheds instead of a sawtooth roof. Kotake Textile wove fukuro-obi here.

The Kobayashi Family Residence Main House in Kiryu, Gunma, dates to about 1931. Its earth floor opens into the mill, and obi were shown to buyers in its best rooms.

Warehouse No. 1 at the Kobayashi Family Residence in Kiryu, Gunma, is a 1961 concrete-block yarn store with a well and sink that served both the mill and the house.