Shōwa
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The Goto Family Residence Barn, a 1949 two-storey barn in Aki, is registered for its board and Tosa plaster walls and the fence that ties it to the main house.
The Goto Family Residence Annex, a 1954 cottage on the Aki Castle site, is registered for its two tatami rooms, kitchen and toilet wings and black north wall.
The Koyagauchi Bridge in Shimanto, Kochi, is a concrete low-water bridge of 1953, set on bedrock with pointed cutwaters so that floods can pass right over it.
Concrete submersible bridge of 1954 on the Shimanto River, Kochi, with no railings and a 12-metre central span left after floods swept away its piers.
The storehouse of the Sawamura Family Residence in Tosa, Kochi, built in 1935, wears white Tosa lime plaster banded with 4 tiers of rain-shedding tile ledges.
The main house of the Sawamura Family Residence in Tosa, Kochi, built in 1935, crosses a French-tiled Western wing into a traditional hip-and-gable house.
The outdoor toilet of the Sawamura Family Residence in Tosa, Kochi, built in 1935, is a small plastered building with a fan-shaped window in its west wall.
The gate of the Sawamura Family Residence in Tosa, Kochi, built in 1935, has arched concrete gateposts and iron doors styled to match the Western wing of the house.
A 1935 timber yakuimon gate in Konan, Kochi, reached by dog-leg steps from the road and turning a gently curved gable to the street as part of the estate's front.
A 1935 retaining wall of great natural boulders in Konan, Kochi, 25 metres long and capped in concrete, whose east end forms a balustrade with a spiral design.
A two-storey 1935 house in Konan, Kochi, built as three wings joined at right angles in the local tombo-zukuri manner. Registered in 2002; the interior is not open.
A tiny 1935 reinforced concrete bathhouse in Konan, Kochi, 2.2 by 4 metres, its decorated parapet echoing the estate's stone wall. An early concrete house in Kochi.
Shogakuji Temple Stone Wall in Nahari, Kochi: a 1930 ishiguro windbreak against sea gales, of rounded stones 31 m long, 1.5 m high and 1 m thick, registered in 2003.
Shogakuji Temple Main Hall in Nahari, Kochi: a 1930 wooden hall, 4 by 4 bays, with a steep pyramidal roof and front porch, now the outer hall. Registered in 2003.
A 1927 kitchen and servants' wing at a doctor's home in Geisei, Kochi, with three staff rooms, a stepped tiled roof, a vent cap over the stove and slatted windows.
A two-story 1927 earthen storehouse at the northwest corner of a doctor's home in Geisei, Kochi, its north wall banded with three tiers of rain-shedding tiles.
A 1927 weatherboarded clinic and home in Geisei, Kochi, with a clipped hipped roof, gable brackets and separate doors for family and patients. Registered in 1999.
A 1927 tiled gatehouse facing the road in Geisei, Kochi, leading to a doctor's family door, with a roofed wall north and a concrete wall to the clinic gate. 1999.
Steel road bridge of 1928 near where the Yusuhara meets the Shimanto River in Kochi: 3 Warren trusses, 138 metres long, with granite end posts in geometric ornament.
Takaiwa Bridge in Ino, Kochi: a 1928 reinforced-concrete girder bridge, 64 m long in 7 spans, whose pierced piers and matching parapets give it a single design.