Shōwa
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The storehouse of Yutoya Ryokan in Kinosaki, Hyogo, built in 1932, is a large two-storey clay-walled store with namako tiling and mock-stone mortar at its base.
The connecting corridor of Yutoya Ryokan in Kinosaki, Hyogo, from the mid-Showa period, adds hexagons inspired by the Genbudo Cave and pine, bamboo and plum windows.
The Yoneda Family Residence Guest Hall in Sumoto is a 1941 sukiya building on 2 floors, with prized-wood alcoves, a bamboo coffered ceiling and fan-rafter eaves.
The Yoneda Family Residence Lower Storage Shed in Sumoto is a 1941 storage strip about 1 metre deep behind the main house, split into 4 bays with sliding doors.
The Yoneda Family Residence Main House in Sumoto is a 1941 single-storey sukiya-style home with a gabled porch; its ridge tag names its designer and carpenter.
The Yoneda Family Residence Shinden Pavilion is a 1941 south-facing pavilion in Sumoto, pairing tile with cypress-bark eaves and walls of board, screen and glass.
The Yoneda Family Residence Storehouse in Sumoto is a 1941 2-storey storehouse on a cut-granite base, with white plaster walls, a mizukiri ledge and full tile roof.
The Yoneda Family Residence Shrine in Sumoto is a 1941 household shrine in one-bay nagare-zukuri style, with a copper roof, bracket sets and carved beams on granite.
The Yoneda Family Residence Bathhouse in Sumoto is a 1941 sukiya building lining up a bath, dressing room and tea room, with log rafters and an odd alcove post.
The Yoneda Family Residence Western-Style House in Sumoto is a 1941 office wing with scratch-tile walls and a parapet over a Japanese timber frame, facing the house.
The main hall of Renjoji at Kinosaki Onsen, Hyogo, a building of 1933 moved here from the Omoto religion in 1936, has an off-centre porch and a bell-shaped window.
The garage of Roy Smith Hall in Nada, Kobe, built around 1935, is an unusual two-storey garage with a chauffeur's room above, its colours matched to the main house.
The main building of Roy Smith Hall, the former Otani house in Nada, Kobe, built in 1935, has a Spanish-tiled hipped roof, half-timbering and stained glass.
The gate pillars and stone walls of Roy Smith Hall in Nada, Kobe, built around 1935, are granite-faced pillars and walls 111 metres long, typical of large estates.
Rokko Sanso, the former Kodera family villa on Mount Rokko in Kobe, built in 1934, has clapboard walls and a living room with a stone fireplace by its terrace.
Built in 1932 as a soy sauce company head office in Tatsuno, this timber building wears tile and stone to read as brick. Since 1979 it has shown 2,400 brewing tools.
A 1950 doctor's surgery built beside a headman's house in Fukusaki, Hyogo. Waiting room west, operating room north-east, a glazed front east. Shops occupy it now.
A small 1933 timber house on the steep slope below Suwayama Park in Kobe, registered in 2006 for its part in the hillside landscape. Private and closed to visitors.
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.