Shōwa
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The 1951 front building of Komatsuya Ryokan at Iwamuro Onsen, Niigata: a projecting hip-and-gable porch, a roof that changes form end to end, 3 upstairs rooms.
The Sakata residence main house in Gosen, Niigata, once home to village headmen. Its 20-metre frontage and hipped-and-gabled roof mark a wealthy farming family's rank.
The Sakata family's timber new storehouse in Gosen, Niigata. Exposed close-set pillars and a black-plaster dado mark an unusually careful early-Showa kura.
A compost and livestock shed at the Sakata grounds in Gosen, Niigata. Rough walls and an exposed frame make this rare working building part of a wealthy farmstead.
An earthen-walled storehouse on the Sakata grounds in Gosen, Niigata. Thick plastered walls and closely set pillars make a fireproof dozo, unlike the timber kura nearby.
The Sasaguchi Family Main House in Niigata, built in 1935 for a sake-brewing family, is a large modern Japanese house with fine tatami rooms and an Art Deco room.
The Sano Shoten Store and Residence in Nuttari, Niigata, is a 1937 corner merchant house with bracketed eaves and vertical board siding of local tradition.
Three slow sand filter beds in use at the Osaki waterworks in Sanjo, Niigata, since 1933, 70.9 meters by 28 meters with coping-stone edges. Registered in 2011.
A 1933 two-family staff house inside the Osaki waterworks in Sanjo, Niigata, with a hipped tile roof and weatherboard walls. Listed 2011; seen at spring openings.
The 1933 timber office at the heart of the Osaki waterworks in Sanjo, Niigata, whose curved red-tile roof recalls a Shinto shrine. Listed 2011; see it from the gate.
A 1933 intake pump house on the Igarashi River in Sanjo, Niigata: a timber cottage with a gabled porch hiding a 5.6-meter intake well. Listed 2011; interior closed.
A 1933 concrete gateway at the Osaki plant's river intake in Sanjo, Niigata: paired 2.1-meter posts with coping stones and splayed wing walls. Registered 2011.
An open-sided 1933 shed at the Osaki waterworks in Sanjo, Niigata, where filter sand is washed; its columns are old railway rails forked into a Y. Registered 2011.
A 1933 pump house at the Osaki waterworks in Sanjo, Niigata, with plastered walls, round-arched windows and a Lombard band; it pumps water up to the reservoir.
A 1933 concrete well at the Osaki waterworks in Sanjo, Niigata, that receives river water and feeds the slow sand filters; 3.6 meters across. Registered in 2011.
A 1933 buried tank at the Osaki waterworks in Sanjo, Niigata, holding treated water under a grassy mound with six vents before it is pumped uphill. Registered 2011.
A 1933 hilltop reservoir at the Osaki waterworks in Sanjo, Niigata: two basins under an earth mound with 36 vents and a classical machine room, serving by gravity.
The 1933 main gate of the Osaki waterworks in Sanjo, Niigata: granite posts 4.4 meters apart, wing walls and six subsidiary posts, 13 meters long. Registered 2011.
A 1933 meter house by the Osaki reservoir in Sanjo, Niigata: just 3.9 square meters, with a cornice and canopy; it once held a British Venturi meter. Listed 2011.
The Seikokan Main Building at Deyu Onsen, Niigata, registered in 2015, is a three-storey timber inn of about 1928 whose rooms each use different prized woods.