Shōwa
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Saikai Bridge in Nagasaki, completed in 1955, crosses the Ino-ura Strait on a 216-metre steel arch, Japan's first strait crossing and a post-war landmark.
Two tiers of diagonally set basalt run 218 metres along this Hirado hillside, coursed and hexagonal stonework flanking two stairways of Aō stone. Registered 2008.
A 1939 timber house in a Tabira valley, Hirado, layering three roof forms over 317 square metres, its main reception room in the southeast corner. Registered 2008.
Behind the Edo brewhouses at Imazato Sake Brewery in Hasami, Nagasaki, this early Showa rice-washing shed has a sheet-iron roof, a king post truss and a ridge vent.
The largest building at Imazato Sake Brewery in Hasami, Nagasaki, this early Showa brewhouse has two full storeys and, unlike its gabled neighbours, a hipped roof.
The Unzen Kanko Hotel of 1935 in Nagasaki, built for foreign visitors by Takenaka Komuten, rises from lava stone to log work to half-timbering in Alpine-lodge style.
Kameoka Shrine Offering Hall and Climbing Corridor, from the early Showa era, joins two 1880 halls with a vaulted ceiling and a corridor arched like a drum bridge.
Kancho Bridge in Sasebo, a steel pony truss of 1954, spans the fast tidal narrows of Shionome east of Hario Island and served the post-war trunk road.
The Former Fukko Pottery Works Painting Workshop in Hasami is a 1926 timber shed, 23 m long under a truss roof, where porcelain was dried and painted before firing.
The Former Fukko Pottery Works Forming Workshop in Hasami is a 1926 timber shed, 32.6 m long under a truss roof, where porcelain was shaped. It is now monné porte.
The Former Fukko Pottery Works Office in Hasami, Nagasaki, is a 1926 timber office with painted clapboard and long window bands, now the café monné legui mooks.
Four courses of two-meter blocks with recessed edges, running twelve meters along a koi-filled spring channel in Shimabara. Registered in 2014, viewable any hour.
Built around 1935 in Shimabara's Shinmachi district, this 158-square-meter timber house turns its guest rooms toward a spring-fed garden. Registered in 2014.
A brick wall rising straight from the side masonry of a spring channel in Shimabara, thirty meters long and barely one brick thick, braced by piers every 2.4 meters.
The garden pavilion of the Tsutsumiuchi Residence in Shimabara, Nagasaki, is a thatched retreat of about 1933, its veranda turned toward the Ariake Sea. Not open.
The Fukushige Family Residence Main House in Hasami is the 1928 home of the Fukko kiln owners, with a fine tokonoma room and a carp-carved transom. Usually closed.
The 1940 stone wall at the entrance of Hekiunso on Iki is laid in level courses of cut Karatsu basalt, 123 metres long in all and about 10 metres high at one corner.
The 1941 main house of Hekiunso on Iki, a single-storey timber home, sets a 12.5-mat main room and a sukiya room around a courtyard, with a large alcove.
The front gate of Hekiunso on Iki, built in about 1941, is a three-bay bracket gate 7.6 metres wide with doors of single Yakusugi planks and copper-edged eaves.
Magome Church on Iojima island, Nagasaki, built in 1931, is an early concrete Gothic church with a pinnacled front and an eight-part ribbed vault inside.