Shōwa
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Built in 1934 above Ago Bay for a retired insurance manager, this Shima City house sets formal Japanese reception rooms beside a lacquered coffered-ceiling study.
A 1932 detached guest wing of a Nabari restaurant inn: four tatami rooms and a Western room, each with its own front door, under split-bamboo and colored clay walls.
A 1936 banquet block of a Nabari restaurant inn: a Western dance hall with Chinese details below, a 44-tatami hall with a coved coffered ceiling above it.
A 1936 tea room of 12 square meters at a Nabari restaurant inn: four mats, no hearth, a wide alcove with a curved bark-on post and a split wicker and bamboo ceiling.
The 1936 family house of a Nabari restaurant inn: copper-edged eaves, a kozama-shaped lattice window, curved cut-outs in the corridor walls, and a Western room.
The Annex of the Former Ryokan Kokonoe in Iga, Mie, is a c.1949 detached wing of two tatami rooms finished with blue tiles and random stone, registered in 2018.
The Gate and Wall of the Former Ryokan Kokonoe in Iga, Mie, built c.1943, pair a low gabled gate and split-bamboo wings with 14 meters of wall; registered 2018.
Just 7.2 square metres, this early Showa tool store in Matsusaka, Mie, was registered in 2013 for the way it closes a former medicine dealer's walled compound.
Built around 1935 at Juryoji temple in Kuwana, Mie, this 16-square-metre concrete hall sets a vaulted roof above a Japanese cusped gable carried on fluted columns.
A one-bay concrete bell tower of about 1935 at Juryoji temple in Kuwana, Mie. Arches span its posts below a pyramidal roof, and washed aggregate patterns its faces.
The North Building of Shirakawa Elementary School in Kameyama, Mie, is a 1954 timber wing joined to its twin by three corridors across a courtyard. Registered 2009.
Registered in 2009, the 1954 South Building of Shirakawa Elementary School in Kameyama, Mie, is a 58-metre timber wing whose dormer gable fronts a working school.
Daiosaki Lighthouse in Shima, Mie: a 23-metre round concrete tower lit in 1927, with a fan-shaped colonnade and classical entrance at its foot. Open to climb.
Daiosaki Lighthouse Gateposts and Wall in Shima, Mie: a 1927 concrete wall that bends for 105.3 m around the lighthouse, with gateposts in washed mortar.
Four-storey concrete store built in 1930 by Kawakita Handeishi on Mount Chitose, Tsu, Mie, with double walls and windows; still in use beside the Sekisui Museum.
The Nagai Family Residence (Umeya) Inari Shrine in Kihoku, Mie, is a household shrine of about 1969 with a hole in its back wall for foxes. Registered in 2021.
The Nagai Family Residence (Umeya) Inner Gate, Inner Wall and Service Gate in Kihoku, Mie, enclose the main garden with a 31-meter wall, c. 1931. Registered 2021.
The Nagai Family Residence (Umeya) Maid's Room in Kihoku, Mie, is a 1928 service wing with a maid's room and a workroom that still holds an icebox. Registered 2021.
The Nagai Family Residence (Umeya) Main Gate and Stonework in Kihoku, Mie: a 1969 gate set in 42 meters of massive fieldstone walls from about 1931. Registered 2021.
The Nagai Family Residence (Umeya) Outer Wall and Service Gate in Kihoku, Mie, close the north side with a 26-meter tiled wall of about 1931. Registered in 2021.