Shōwa
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The Shioda Family Residence South Storehouse on Shodoshima is a small early Showa earthen storehouse built on the Umaki River revetment at a bend. Listed 2002.
The Shimizu Kannondo on Teshima in Kagawa is a small early Showa hall above the Karato spring, forming with the shared water place a space that ties water to faith.
Former kimono shop of 1935 in Mitoyo, Kagawa, said to copy modern Kyoto architecture, with a skylit double-height gallery; now a small rural postal agency.
A five-bay wooden passage at Zentsuji Tanjoin in Kagawa, built about 1940, with a one-bay Enma hall under its north roof slope. Registered in 2010, 21 square metres.
A three-bay-square hall of 1936 at Zentsuji Tanjoin in Kagawa, with a pyramidal tiled roof and a carved centre bay treated like a shrine cabinet. Registered in 2010.
A three-bay-square hall of 1940 at Zentsuji Tanjoin in Kagawa, with a two-tier copper pyramidal roof and deliberately archaic carving. Registered in 2010.
A copper-roofed passage of about 1940 at Zentsuji Tanjoin in Kagawa, linking three halls, with an earth floor and open rafters. Registered in 2010, 56 square metres.
A hall of just 6.6 square metres at Zentsuji Tanjoin in Kagawa, built in 1940 with a curved gable, coffered ceiling and a stone Jizo inside. Registered in 2010.
A hall of 1940 at Zentsuji Tanjoin in Kagawa with a copper pyramidal roof and a cypress bark pent roof around it, lifted over the centre bay. Registered in 2010.
A tiled boundary wall of 1936 at Zentsuji Tanjoin in Kagawa, 61 metres long, stepping up beside the gate and marked with five rank lines. Registered in 2010.
A stone girder bridge of 1936 over the moat at Zentsuji Tanjoin in Kagawa, 6.5 metres long, with eight oversized finials on each side. Registered in 2010.
A four-legged gate of 1936 facing the moat at Zentsuji Tanjoin in Kagawa, copper-roofed with curved gables and a coffered ceiling overhead. Registered in 2010.
A stone girder bridge of 1942 at Zentsuji Tanjoin in Kagawa, 6.8 metres long, listed in 2010 as a model of its form, the only one of the 19 so judged.
A guardhouse of 1936 beside the gate at Zentsuji Tanjoin in Kagawa, 9.3 square metres, with lattice windows opening only towards the approach. Registered in 2010.
The central hall of 1936 at Zentsuji Tanjoin in Kagawa, 554 square metres, with two crossing gabled roofs and the ticket desk for the dark passage inside.
An early-Showa greenhouse in Mitoyo, Kagawa, built of clay and tile rather than glass, where a village mayor grew aoi plants and kept songbirds. Registered in 2021.
A two-storey Showa reception wing with a Western annex, built by a village mayor in Mitoyo, Kagawa, and registered in 2021. It now runs as the Kachoen guesthouse.
An early-Showa garden gate in Mitoyo, Kagawa, with woven ajiro doors and bamboo fences on blue stone, in the spirit of a tea garden. Registered in 2021.
An early-Showa garden gate dividing the courtyard of the Tottori compound in Mitoyo, Kagawa, with paired rafters and slatted earthen side walls. Registered in 2021.
A small early-Showa bath wing built for honoured guests in Mitoyo, Kagawa, with a wood-fired iron tub, tiled walls and a vented ceiling. Registered in 2021.