Shōwa
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Wooden shop-house of 1933 in Yasuda, Kochi, with a front shop on an earth floor, rooms behind and above, and drip tiles over its front pent roof, a local feature.
A two-storey guest building of about 1953 at the back of a merchant's plot in Yasuda, Kochi, its tall plastered gable banded with rows of Tosa-style drip tiles.
An early Showa concrete gate in Yasuda, Kochi: 2 capped square posts set back from the road, with wing walls curving forward in arcs to meet the street wall.
An early Showa shed on the Hatanaka estate in Aki, Kochi, 9.5 metres long, holding a brick-lined bath, firewood store and miso room; the only Showa building there.
Wall of about 1934 at a landowner's compound in Nahari, Kochi: beach stones laid in concrete, 24 m long and 1.9 m high, with cement-brick corners and coping.
Kitchen and bath wing of 1934 attached to the main house of a landowner's compound in Nahari, Kochi, with a maid's room, earth floor and open-sided well area.
Small 1934 building for handling rice in a landowner's compound in Nahari, Kochi, linked to the main house by a corridor, with a hip-and-gable roof; registered 2004.
1934 single-storey house at the heart of a landowner's compound in Nahari, Kochi, with a hip-and-gable roof, latticed gables and a corner parlor; registered 2004.
An 18-metre reinforced concrete garden wall of the early Showa era, pierced with curved diamonds and checkerboard voids. Registered in 2003 as not easy to reproduce.
Just 1.5 metres wide, this early Showa timber gate divides entrance from garden at Hyakunen-ya in Kochi. Registered in 2003 for the order it brings to the approach.
A 1929 merchant house at a corner of the Shikoku pilgrimage route in Aki, Kochi. Four tiers of drip tiles guard its east wall. Registered in 2013; exterior only.
A 5.8-metre earthen wall in Aki, Kochi, coated in Tosa lime plaster with a corded plaster ridge built against typhoons. Registered in 2013 with the house it adjoins.
The early Shōwa home of a Kōchi sake-brewing family, with white Tosa-plaster walls, a black-plastered entrance and deep eaves on log purlins, registered in 2004.
An early Shōwa zelkova gate with gable pendants and a washed-aggregate concrete fence before a Kōchi sake brewer's house, registered as exemplary design in 2004.
An early Shōwa concrete gateway scored to resemble stonework, dividing brewery from household at the center of a Kōchi sake brewer's compound; registered 2004.
An early Shōwa sake storehouse with buttressed reinforced-concrete walls, showing how brewery building evolved in a Kōchi brewer's compound. Registered in 2004.
A detached early Shōwa timber privy behind the Main House of a Kōchi sake brewer's compound, with a king-post roof and an original west face. Registered 2004.
An early Shōwa concrete bathhouse behind a Kōchi sake brewer's house, with cornice, pilasters and a curved canopy; registered as exemplary design in 2004.
Restaurant Tokugetsuro Kiku Room, built in 1957 at the innermost point of the site, omits the nageshi rail and turns its writing bay in an L by the alcove.
Restaurant Tokugetsuro Guest Room began as a forestry pavilion at the 1937 Nangoku Exposition, moved here in 1950. Its timber list still hangs by the door.