Shōwa
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A Showa-period earthen storehouse in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. It is valued here for being well loved as a view from the very road out there even so.
Shoraikaku in Nagaoka, Niigata, the early Showa house of a sake-brewing family, joins Japanese and Western wings with fine woodwork, open free in season.
Ikinariya's middle gate and wall of 1928 form an inner boundary: a light gate with a natural-timber ridge, shingle roof and woven door, beside a wall by the storehouse.
Ikinariya's detached room, a 1928 wing and its largest registered structure, sets Western lamps and a natural-wood rail within a Japanese hall, cranes throughout.
An early Showa gate and walls in Niigata City: a light copper-roofed timber gate open above the lintel, set between stepped reinforced-concrete walls 11 m long.
An early Showa gate and wall in Niigata City: a narrow copper-roofed gate with a lattice door and a 7.9 m wall faced with cedar bark held by split bamboo.
The Isurugi Shrine Worship Hall in Nagaoka is a 1934 hip-and-gable hall on a stone base, with curved porch posts, a dragon and carved lions; registered in 2006.
The Isurugi Shrine Main Hall in Nagaoka is a 1.4 square meter nagare-zukuri shrine of 1934 by a local carpenter, with a dragon and curved beams; registered 2006.
A 1942 reinforced-concrete subway, 28 m long, linking the building and island platform at Nihongi Station, Joetsu, with a timber stair shelter. Registered in 2019.
A 1937 platform canopy at Nihongi Station in Joetsu, Niigata, whose columns are pairs of old US-made and Yawata rails welded head to head. Registered in 2019.
A 1935 timber waiting room on the platform at Nihongi Station, Joetsu, with red walls, a white-painted exposed frame and glazing all round. Registered in 2019.
Completed in 1935 and registered in 2003, this three-storey timber ryotei on Niigata's Honcho-dori pairs arched windows with woven copper walls and tiered roofs.
Kappo Tochu Bekkan in Ojiya, Niigata, is a prewar Showa annex linked to the main restaurant at an angle by a skip-floor passage. It was registered in 2015.
A gravity check dam of 1927 below a tributary mouth on the Kamakurazawa River in Minamiuonuma, 45 meters long and the key structure of a scheme registered in 2015.
A stone bed-control weir of 1927 on the Kamakurazawa River in Minamiuonuma, 26 meters long with a wide overflow notch and a diagonally laid face, registered in 2015.
A mortared stone check dam of 1932 at the head of the Kamakurazawa River series in Minamiuonuma, only 13 meters long across a rock narrows, registered in 2015.
A cyclopean concrete check dam of 1929 on the Kamakurazawa River in Minamiuonuma, lowest of three dams above a channel bend, registered in 2015 at 31 meters long.
A gravity check dam of 1928 on the Kamakurazawa River in Minamiuonuma, its andesite face enclosing a cyclopean concrete core, registered in 2015 at 32 meters long.
A stone bed-control weir of 1935 on the Kamakurazawa River in Minamiuonuma, 17 meters long and 1.4 meters high, lowest of the eight structures registered in 2015.
A stone check dam of 1930 on the Kamakurazawa River in Minamiuonuma, 3.9 meters high, battered face and thick crest, best preserved of eight registered in 2015.