Shōwa
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The Nagai Family Residence (Umeya) Annex in Kihoku, Mie, is a retirement house of about 1932 with a sukiya tea room upstairs and a 1969 wing. Registered 2021.
The Nagai Family Residence (Umeya) Connecting Corridor in Kihoku, Mie, is a walkway of about 1931, open to the garden and walled in Otsu plaster. Registered 2021.
The Nakaroku Shop in Shima, Mie, built in 1929 before the gates of Izawa-no-Miya, turns its gable to the shrine and opens its upper floor with large windows.
The front gate of the Hattori Residence in Yokkaichi, Mie, built in about 1937, is a four-legged gate with egg-yolk walls, a cedar dado and a transom of umoregi.
The main house of the Hattori family in Yokkaichi, Mie, built in 1934, pairs a swelling roof and cedar-bark walls with sukiya, shoin-style and Western rooms.
The storehouse of the Hattori Residence in Yokkaichi, Mie, built in about 1936, keeps the old form but uses modern mortar finishes and a braced truss roof frame.
The barn of the Hattori Residence in Yokkaichi, Mie, built in about 1938, was planned with a student's room and matches the main house in roof and cedar-bark walls.
Timber Western-style alumni hall of 1936 on the Mie University campus in Tsu, built for the agricultural college's tenth anniversary; its only surviving building.
Outside the kitchen door of the Misedoi main house in Owase, this early-Showa well house shelters a well and sink under splayed posts, open on three sides.
The largest storehouse on the Misedoi estate in Owase, this early-Showa rice store has a hipped tiled roof with crested ridge tiles and a deep covered forecourt.
Built in 1931 in Owase, Mie, this timber house pairs a Western-style entrance and reception room with sukiya tatami rooms, a central corridor and Art Deco details.
Facing the old Kumano road in Owase, this early-Showa concrete gate and 126 m wall share the main house's rough coloured mortar, with scratch tile on the gateposts.
The smallest of the nine Misedoi structures in Owase, this early-Showa servants' toilet and pickle store is screened from the back gate by a yamato-bari board fence.
An early Showa, mortar-rendered office at the Miyazaki Honten brewery in Yokkaichi, with part-tiled upper walls and a gable ornament; registered in 1996.
A small early Showa warehouse behind Storage House Building A at Miyazaki Honten, Yokkaichi, its earthen walls cased in galvanised iron; registered in 1996.
The largest registered building at Miyazaki Honten, Yokkaichi: an L-shaped early Showa warehouse of three linked blocks, said to have been built as a brewhouse.
Two early Showa warehouses joined in an H opposite the Miyazaki Honten office in Yokkaichi, with eaves on every face and a brown brick chimney; registered in 1996.
A large early Showa gabled warehouse at Miyazaki Honten, Yokkaichi, painted with the Kikkomiya mark and clad differently from its neighbours; registered in 1996.
A 1968 shoin in Komono, Mie, built with Shigemori Mirei's garden: a 10-mat room with alcove shelves and a writing desk, verandas on three sides. Registered 2020.
Built in 1929 at Yunoyama Onsen, this inn annexe has a copper roof against frost, ogee windows sized from Ishiyamadera and rare Colburn glass. Registered in 2008.