Shōwa
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Designed by Takeda Goichi in 1930 for a teacher of flower arrangement, this Ashiya house puts a tea room and a fireplace under one Spanish tile roof. Closed.
No crawl entrance, only a high kijinguchi: this small Nishinomiya tea house follows the Fumai school of Matsue, a lineage rarely built in the Kansai region.
Tea-house scholar Okada Takao designed this 331-square-metre Nishinomiya house, which pivots from Spanish tile to tatami. Registered property, open by booking.
Japanese storehouses are normally earthen-walled; this one in Nishinomiya is reinforced concrete, with a tatami antechamber and a darkroom set at the front.
A steel-frame water tower in the Hirao Family Residence, Toyooka. Its early-Showa frame carries a riveted tank that once piped water through the estate. Not public.
An earthen garden wall in the Hirao Family Residence, about 19 m long. A rough rubble footing carries it, exposed inside and black-plastered outside. Not open to the public.
A short 3.6 m wall linking the main house to the livestock shed, Hirao Family Residence. It cleanly separates domestic space from the working yards. Not open to the public.
A 28 m board fence enclosing the inner garden's east side, Hirao Family Residence, set on a low fieldstone retaining wall. Plain boarding gives a quiet enclosure. Not public.
A 25 m board fence and bracket gate closing the inner garden's north side in the Hirao Family Residence. Set straight on the ground, it completes the enclosure. Not public.
West of the main hall at Nagata Shrine in Kobe, this 1928 building covers one square metre yet keeps a cut-stone plinth, copper roof and vermilion woodwork.
A 1936 drum storehouse at Tomari Shrine in Kakogawa, Hyogo: hipped-and-gabled on the north face, plain gable on the south, charred cedar walls. Registered 2008.