Shōwa
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A 2-storey early Showa reinforced concrete storehouse in Sakurai finished like a traditional earthen kura, plastered white to the eaves under a tiled gable roof.
A single-storey early Showa sukiya-style wing in Sakurai with staggered 6- and 8-mat rooms, a raised ceiling, bamboo and wickerwork, and deep copper-edged eaves.
An early Showa tea room of three and a half mats in Sakurai with a triangular gable, crawl-in door, bamboo alcove post and dropped and sloping ceilings.
A low, single-storey early Showa earthen storehouse in Sakurai with a stone-faced base and hooded north door front, its interior since converted into a bath.
A 2-storey early Showa reception wing in Sakurai with matching 6- and 8-mat suites on both floors, a tall upper storey and glass-doored verandas onto a garden.
A small early Showa half-timbered Western-style house in a Sakurai timber merchant's compound, with a strutted gable, arched porch and plaster ceiling medallion.
A bracket gate 2.0 metres wide on a stone plinth, lattice doors outside and folding doors within, plus 15 metres of plastered fence. Registered in 2025.
Registered in March 2025, this 174-square-metre Nara townhouse of 1940 sits back behind its own gate and keeps its half-storey, doma and cooking hearth.
Only 19 square metres, this Nara storehouse of about 1940 pairs a heavy hongawara gable with namako-kabe tilework on its courtyard face. Registered 2025.
An early Showa storehouse for household goods in Uda, Nara: an earthen kura under a separate roof, white plaster over charred cedar, and a shared anteroom.
An early Showa annex behind a soy merchant's house in Uda, Nara, with a corridor of frost-glass doors on its south side, a tatami room upstairs and a bath below.
A 1928 Renaissance-style bank in Kashihara, Nara, registered in 2006, designed by Funahashi Shunichi with Ionic columns, now a wedding restaurant.
Kettle house of about 1926 at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: a tall gabled room with an earth floor and a cut-stone well in its one open corner. Registered in 1998.
Building of about 1926 at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: once rooms for live-in staff, now a changing room, extended twice around a 2-storey core. Registered 1998.
Early Showa workshop at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: a tall single-storey room where kneaded glue and soot are weighed and pressed into moulds. Registered in 1998.
Early Showa room at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: a tall 15-square-metre building where guests were received and later shown how ink is made. Registered 1998.
Early Showa glue house at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: an earth-floored room with 2 brick hearths and a chimney, where glue was melted for ink. Registered 1998.
Early Showa work house at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: where wood ash for drying ink was dried and the sticks were bound in rice straw. Registered in 1998.
Early Showa bathhouse for the craftsmen of Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: 4 washing tubs and 1 rinsing tub in their old layout under a vent roof. Registered 1998.
Early Showa U-shaped block at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: once a mould store, now where ink is polished, with a work rail through one wing. Registered 1998.