Shōwa
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Completed in 1928 in Takarazuka's Hanayashiki garden suburb, this registered house pairs a varied hipped-and-gabled silhouette with Art Deco and Secession interiors.
Added to the Western house in 1954, this Japanese wing has an eight-mat room with a polished-log alcove post and a corridor under an arched boat-bottom ceiling.
Discover the former Matsumoto Residence in Takarazuka, Hyogo — a beautifully preserved 1937 Western-style house designed by University of California-trained architect Kawasaki Shinobu, now a nationally registered tangible cultural property.
A granite plinth beside Kakogawa's copper-clad Takihama Yokan, cut in 1936 for a bronze of fertiliser pioneer Taki Kumejiro that wartime metal drives took.
The purification pavilion of Nishinomiya Jinja stands on the approach, columns rising from stone pedestals under a copper roof. Built in 1934, it predates the war.
The west wing hall of Nishinomiya Jinja mirrors its eastern twin beside the main hall. A small one-bay building of 1961, it completes a symmetrical sanctuary.
The worship hall of Nishinomiya Jinja is a reinforced-concrete building before the main sanctuary. Built in 1961, its wings enclose the ritual courtyard.
The east wing hall of Nishinomiya Jinja is a small one-bay ritual building facing the courtyard. Newly built in 1961 as one of a matched pair, it was registered in 2025.
The main hall of Nishinomiya Jinja, Japan's head shrine of Ebisu, is the country's only triple Kasuga-zukuri sanctuary, rebuilt in 1961 after wartime loss.
Beside the entrance of Nishimuraya Honkan stands the Ohiroma-to, rebuilt after the 1925 quake. Its eighty-mat hall spans a Western truss under a coffered ceiling.
The Hirata Wing at Nishimuraya Honkan was designed in 1960 by Hirata Masaya, a sukiya master. Its rooms share a single garden through sightlines that never cross.
At the south front of Nishimuraya Honkan stand a large yakuimon gate and an early-Showa wall. Local basalt, the stone that named nearby Genbudo, lines the wall's base.
Completed in 1941 in Tamba City, Hyogo, this guest wing pairs a storehouse-like volume with a glazed terrace and mixes tatami and western rooms. Registered 2007.
Running 45 metres along the street in Tamba City, Hyogo, this 3.3-metre timber wall of cedar boarding and lime plaster fronts the Kotsuzumi brewery. Registered 2007.
Discover the main hall of Honjuji Temple, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in the heart of Kinosaki Onsen, Hyogo Prefecture. Rebuilt in 1931 after the devastating 1925 Kita-Tajima Earthquake, this Nichiren Buddhist temple features exquisite coffered ceilings and dragon carvings by the renowned Matsumoto school of Banshu Shikama.
A 27-square-metre timber barn in Maiko Park, Kobe, with a two-storey veranda across its south face. Registered in 2001, it stands inside the estate's closed zone.
Kobe's Kitano is a slope, and this 53-metre boundary of 1951 is registered in its own right: diagonal stonework, white concrete, round tile coping, a curved corner.
A 1951 wooden house in Kobe's Kitano: white stucco, pink louvered shutters, a Spanish-tiled hipped roof over a partial basement. Registered in 2012; exterior only.
A 1928 reinforced concrete gate with four posts on the Nitta estate in Nishinomiya, set back from the road to frame the approach to the Onzan Memorial Hall villa.
A 1928 concrete storehouse on the Nitta estate in Nishinomiya, north of the villa, designed by Kigo Shichiro to match the main house of the Onzan Memorial Hall.