Shōwa
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A small two-storey storehouse behind the main building of Fukuju Hall, 6.9 by 3.9 metres, with namako walls and an earth-floored ground level by the kitchen.
The 1930s heart of a merchant's villa beside Fukuyama Castle, with a bark-roofed karahafu porch and a 21-mat hall whose veranda frames the keep across the garden.
A 1942 tea house across the pond at Fukuju Hall, known as Bojotei, with rooms open to the garden and a tea path split by a crawl-through nakakuguri gate.
Built in 1928 for Jikoin in Ryogoku, Tokyo, and moved to Kisa in 2020, this seven-bay hall pairs a U-shaped earthen outer hall with a trussed roof. Registered 2024.
Myogenji Main Hall in Fukutomi, Higashihiroshima, built in 1938 by carpenter Nishitani Shoichi, has diagonal brackets, 4-bay beams and ranma by an Omi carver.
Early Showa timber lab behind Yamamoto Rock Machine's old office in Tojo, Hiroshima: arched windows, scraped-mortar walls, registered in 2024 as a model of design.
Early Showa office and home of Yamamoto Rock Machine on Shinmachi-suji in Tojo, Hiroshima: scraped-mortar front, bay and round windows, registered in 2024.
A 38-meter timber workshop of about 1937 at Yamamoto Rock Machine in Tojo, Hiroshima: queen post truss, ridge monitor, arched gable windows. Registered in 2016.
A 1937 three-story timber family dormitory of Yamamoto Rock Machine in Tojo, Hiroshima, with clipped-gable roof and dormers, now in volunteer care. Registered 2016.
A timber canteen and recreation hall of about 1937 at Yamamoto Rock Machine's dormitories in Tojo, Hiroshima, with pressed-steel ceiling panels. Registered in 2016.
A 59-meter timber dormitory of about 1941 for single workers at Yamamoto Rock Machine in Tojo, Hiroshima, with ten-mat rooms and a basement. Registered in 2016.
A timber schoolhouse of about 1938 where Yamamoto Rock Machine in Tojo, Hiroshima trained apprentice machinists above a storeroom until around 1980. Registered 2016.
Built in 1934 in Tojo, Hiroshima, this 78-meter timber shop raises its central bay and adds a monitor roof for daylight. It still builds rock drills today.
Completed in 1937 at right angles to the older shop, this 44-meter timber workshop carries king post trusses, ranked windows, and a washed-aggregate dado.
Built about 1939 for the factory workforce, this 18-square-meter timber block was registered for its doubled glazing and its original flush plumbing system.