Shōwa
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The Former Receiving Well House at Sue Water Purification Plant in Kanazawa is a 1932 concrete gatehouse with a curved parapet and round windows. Registered 2016.
The No. 5 Slow Sand Filter at Sue Water Purification Plant in Kanazawa is a 1931 filter whose well house has rounded corners, a stepped roof and a dome.
The No. 3 Sedimentation Basin at Sue Water Purification Plant in Kanazawa is a 1930 concrete basin fed evenly from the east with water from the Sai River.
The No. 3 Slow Sand Filter at Sue Water Purification Plant in Kanazawa is a 1931 filter between walkway walls, with overflow pipes and a granite-rimmed well.
The No. 2 Sedimentation Basin at Sue Water Purification Plant in Kanazawa is a 1930 concrete basin in 12 sections, sealed with asphalt and lead joints.
The No. 2 Slow Sand Filter at Sue Water Purification Plant in Kanazawa is a 1931 filter in 25 sections, its bed of brick, slab and sand draining at 1 in 118.
The No. 4 Slow Sand Filter at Sue Water Purification Plant in Kanazawa is a 1931 filter whose small well house stands on a granite plinth with three steps.
The No. 6 Slow Sand Filter at Sue Water Purification Plant in Kanazawa is a 1931 filter at the north-west corner, where the outflows of all six filters join.
Built in 1931 after the Komatsu fire, the Suzuki Family Residence Main House turns a Nakamachi corner with a hip-and-gable roof, corner entrance and stepped eaves.
Built in 1931 after the Komatsu fire, the Suzuki Family Residence Shop Storehouse is concrete dressed as a plastered dozo, with a peaked parapet facing the street.
Sojiji Temple Soin Koshakudai, the 1954 priests' quarters and kitchen of Sojiji Soin in Wajima, doubles as part of the cloister and shows arched lattice windows.
A small household store of 1948 at a Kaga sake brewer’s compound, faced in Takigahara tuff under a separate fireproof roof. Registered Tangible Cultural Property.
This small copper-roofed gate to the garden of a Kaga sake brewer’s house was rebuilt in 1950 after the Fukui earthquake. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property.
Built in 1954 as a brewing hall at a Kaga sake compound, it wraps steel columns and trusses in tuff, a step toward concrete. Registered Tangible Cultural Property.
Rebuilt in 1950 after the Fukui earthquake, this Kaga brewer’s guest wing has a formal room with an alcove and coved ceiling. Registered Tangible Cultural Property.
A 23-metre wall of boards and black plaster on a tuff base that curves around the corner of a Kaga sake brewer’s compound. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property.
The Harunari sake brewery house in Nanao, Ishikawa, a tall timber townhouse of 1934 near the start of the Noto road, stands out among its neighbours for its size.
A 1949 row-house gate at a Komatsu sake brewery, with a 4.7 m gateway, heavy double doors, a wicket, and a front of stone, plaster, tall boards and a lattice window.
A small 1948 yakuimon gate at a Komatsu sake brewery, 1.7 m wide, flanked by cut-stone walls topped with earth on one side and boards on the other, 8.6 m in all.
A 1952 four-and-a-half-mat tea room at a Komatsu sake brewery, lit by shoji and a tall guest door under a mixed ajiro ceiling; closed for earthquake repairs.