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The Fujioka Family Residence Main House in Kideracho, Nara, is a 1928 farmhouse with a lattice townhouse front and a farmhouse plan. Registered 2016; a private home.
The main house of the Horii Family Residence in Anashi, Sakurai, built in 1932, faces Mount Miwa and sets glazed doors into a carefully built traditional frame.
The 1932 nagayamon gate of the Horii Family Residence in Anashi, Sakurai, pairs a zelkova gateway and slatted transom with the Anashi River as the estate's front.
The wall of the Horii Family Residence in Anashi, Sakurai, built about 1932, runs 30 metres from the gate in plaster and board on dressed stone under tiled coping.
A small 1946 clinic building in Oji, Nara, added to the Matsuura house when the family opened a practice: mortar walls, a parapet and a green-glass round window.
A small early Showa clay storehouse joined to the Matsumoto main house in Kodera, Nara, its rafters sealed in plaster; registered in 2017 as a model of design.
The street gate of the Matsumoto estate in Kodera, Nara: an early Showa hipped gate with a gatekeeper's room, double sliding doors and clay walls; registered 2017.
A two-storey clay storehouse of 1930 on a tall stone base in the north plot of the Matsumoto estate, Kodera, Nara; the only one with a firm date. Registered 2017.
A 19 m clay-walled building on the north plot of the Matsumoto estate in Kodera, Nara, with rice store, work floor and barn in a row under one roof. Registered 2017.
A small early Showa barn in the north plot of the Matsumoto estate in Kodera, Nara, open on the east, with rough clay walls and an earth floor. Registered 2017.
An early Showa gatehouse on the street side of the Matsumoto estate's north plot in Kodera, Nara: lodge, gate and fence in one plastered wall. Registered 2017.
An early Showa outbuilding east of the Matsumoto main house in Kodera, Nara: two rooms for live-in farmhands and a firewood shed under one roof. Registered 2017.
The largest building of the Matsumoto estate in Kodera, Nara: an early Showa farmhouse ten bays long with an earth floor and six raised rooms; registered 2017.
A long early Showa clay storehouse on the Matsumoto estate in Kodera, Nara, that held tableware for entertaining; five rooms inside and a toilet. Registered 2017.
An early Showa barn on the east side of the Matsumoto estate in Kodera, Nara: a boarded, plastered fence outside and an open log-post shed inside. Registered 2017.
An early Showa barn on the street side of the Matsumoto estate in Kodera, Nara, called the mortar room: half wall with double doors, half open shed. Registered 2017.
Early Showa clay walls closing the south-west corner of the Matsumoto estate in Kodera, Nara: 39 m in all, stepping down at the corner. Registered in 2017.
An early Showa rice storehouse, 7.9 by 5.9 m, at the back of a rice merchant's estate in Naramachi, Nara; its upper floor was removed soon after it was built.
An early Showa earth-walled grain store, 6.9 by 4.9 m, behind a Naramachi rice merchant's house in Nara, with nisurigi battens lining its walls. Registered in 2015.
An early Showa corridor behind a Naramachi townhouse in Nara, its 6 m log beam hung from the eaves so no posts block the courtyard. Registered in 2015.