Shōwa
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A Showa-period timber hall in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, Japan. Its own name over there is simply that of the architect who had designed it all even so now.
Railway bascule bridge of 1931 over the Chitose Canal in Yokkaichi, Mie, by Yamamoto Utaro; its span rises to 80 degrees, the only movable rail bridge in use.
Haiseiden in Iga, Mie is a 1942 Important Cultural Property marking poet Matsuo Basho's 300th birth anniversary, shaped to evoke the wandering poet in travel attire.
A three-mat early Showa tea room in the Akai Family Residence garden in Iga, with a full-height entrance, a round window and a smoked-bamboo alcove post.
The Asahi Elementary School Circular Building in Mie, a 1962 four-storey round school with a column-free hall, is a peak work of Sakamoto Kanao. Registered 2013.
Anorisaki Lighthouse in Shima, Mie: a 16-metre square concrete tower of 1948 that replaced an 1873 wooden light at the mouth of Matoya Bay. Open to climb.
Amikan Head Office in Yokkaichi, Mie: an early Showa office of timber-framed concrete with a rounded corner, scratch tile walls, tall windows and a rooftop tower.
Amikan Head Office Main Gate in Yokkaichi, Mie: an early Showa concrete gate whose 3.1-metre posts have domed tops, flanked by a long brick wall on either side.
Amikan Head Office Brick Wall in Yokkaichi, Mie: a 46-metre early Showa brick wall with pilasters every 2.2 metres, a solid reminder of modern industry.
Ishikawa Sake Brewery North Archive Storehouse is an early Showa vault in Yokkaichi, built to copy its late Meiji neighbour's white plaster and eaves band.
Reading room of 1932 in Ishiyakushi, Suzuka, Mie, a library given by poet Sasaki Nobutsuna for his sixtieth birthday, with cream walls and large windows.
An early Showa reinforced concrete room of 12 square metres in Ise, with roof tiles along its flat-roof parapet and washed aggregate walls. Registered in 2001.
An early Showa concrete tower in Ise, 2.5 metres wide and about 6 metres high, with two segmental arches at its base and a tank above. Registered in 2001.
Concrete waterworks pump house of 1936 in Iga, Mie, built for Ueno's first piped water, with a balcony porch and arched windows; the first registered in Mie.
A 1929 rest house in Iga's Kagiya-no-tsuji park recreating the teahouse of the 1634 vendetta. Sukiya detailing, split-bamboo ceiling, registered 2024, repaired 2026.
The main house of Katsuo no Tenpaku, a dried-bonito maker on Cape Daio in Shima, Mie, is a single-storey home of 1951 with board walls set low against the sea wind.
The 1951 workshop of Katsuo no Tenpaku in Shima, Mie, pairs a smoking hut with a sunken firebed and a mould room, where dried bonito is still made by hand today.
A two-storey reinforced concrete post office of 1932 on the Wakayama Kaido in Matsusaka, Mie. Built as the Kakino Post Office, it was registered in 2011.
A single-storey timber post office of 1931 in Tsu, Mie. Its L-shaped plan sets the working space east and the night duty rooms west. Registered in 2019.
A detached tatami parlour of around 1955 at the Former Ito Denshichi Villa in Yokkaichi, Mie. Ten and six mat rooms, alcove joinery; registered in 2010.