Shōwa
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A shop of 1928 on the old Shimodate highway at Iizuka in Makabe, Sakuragawa, registered in 2003. Hipped roofs, a deep lean-to, glass doors of the early Showa years.
The Jushichiya footwear shop of 1930 in Ishioka, Ibaraki, is a kanban-style building whose flat front has tall windows and a Lombard band below the eaves.
The Sugaya Cosmetics Store in Ishioka, Ibaraki, is a timber shop-house of 1930 whose front is dressed with classical pilasters, a dentilled cornice and a pediment.
Tsuchiura Civic Hall, registered in 2024, is a 1969 hall by the acoustician Sato Takeo, with a colonnaded south entrance front and a curved-walled main auditorium.
The Degawa Family Residence Stone Storehouse of 1937 in Makabe, Sakuragawa, is 6.7 metres long in granite 325 millimetres thick, its long walls dressed edokiri.
The Degawa Family Residence Main House, a 1937 town house in Makabe, Sakuragawa, was registered in 2005. Its 1951 pharmacy front took a shallow hood, not a shop eave
The Nakabashi Bridge of 1937 in Hitachiota, Ibaraki, a concrete arch known as the Spectacles Bridge, is an early Lohse bridge and rare north of the Kanto region.
The Anglican chapel of Saint Barnabas in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, built in 1930 west of the castle ruins, has concrete walls, timber trusses and an octagonal bell tower.
A 1932 concrete gallery wing of the Bakumatsu and Meiji Museum in Oarai, Ibaraki, with windowless faux-stone walls, pilasters, dentils and Corinthian-style columns.
A wooden inn built in 1929 on a street corner in Makabe, Sakuragawa City. Its entrance canopy, wide upper openings and balustrade mark the trade. Registered 2002.
An early Showa timber house in Makabe, Sakuragawa City, registered 2004. Boarded walls, plaster on the street front alone, hipped tiled roof; exterior viewing only.
Raised around 1930 after a fire razed central Ishioka, this two-storey timber shophouse fronts Nakamachi-dori with scratch-tile pilasters. Registered in 2004.
Built in 1928 and spared by the fire that levelled Ishioka a year later, this artificial-stone shopfront is the town's oldest signboard building and still trades.
Built in 1931 on Ishioka's Nakamachi Street, this sugar shop wears the heavy roof of a traditional merchant house, yet its black wall is concrete, not plaster.
The kokugura at Fuchu Homare in Ishioka, Ibaraki, is a wood-frame concrete rice store recording the fire-resistant methods adopted after the great fire of 1929.
In Makabe, Sakuragawa, this early Showa gate of the Masubuchi Hiroichi family blends three gate types, munamon, yakuimon and udegimon, into one design.
Set back within the Masubuchi Hiroichi family lot in Makabe, Sakuragawa, this early Showa dozo storehouse has plastered walls and double-leaf fire shutters.
The low-level water tower in Mito, Ibaraki, built in 1932 to designs by Goto Tsurumatsu, is a 21.6-metre concrete tower with relief carving, a local landmark.
The chimney of Murai Jozo in Makabe, Ibaraki, a 22-metre concrete stack of the early Showa period, has a firebrick lining and comb-shaped trim near the top.
An early Showa timber wing behind the main house on a Makabe plot in Sakuragawa City, with matted rooms, alcove furnishings and a south veranda. Listed in 2005.