Shōwa
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A two-storey 1927 house with a rooftop lookout, built for a branch of the Ito family at Somi, Niigata, its walls and fittings based on tall rectangles.
A compact early Showa storehouse on the south wall of the Ito estate in Somi, Niigata, heavily built with thick timbers, tile-clad base and doors facing the house.
A Western wing of about 1928 joined to a Meiji villa in central Niigata, where Aizu Yaichi lived for a decade. It now displays his calligraphy and works by Ryokan.
An early Showa storehouse for household goods in the Dairoan compound of the Ito estate in Somi, Niigata, with a raised roof and deep eaves carried on beam ends.
Built in 1934 on Murakami's Omachi Street, this 2-storey townhouse shop with a 5.5-ken frontage was registered for its tall early Showa form. It still sells sake.
The smallest structure at the Mori doctors' estate in Mano, Sado: a 3 square metre early Showa family privy of corrugated iron with a carefully built front eave.
The early Showa garden gate of the Mori doctors' estate in Mano, Sado: a plain timber gate 2.1 metres wide dividing the garden from the family's living quarters.
The 1932 clinic wing of the Mori doctors in Mano, Sado: a hipped-roof timber building with clapboard walls, bracketed eaves, railed gables and a green exterior.
The early Showa stone front gate of the Mori doctors' estate in Mano, Sado: 3.8 metres wide, with tooled posts, polished edges, rounded tops and no doors.
The corridor of the Ryokan Memorial Hall in Izumozaki, Niigata, by Yoshiro Taniguchi, is a 23-metre cantilevered walkway leading visitors to the gallery.
The administration building of the Ryokan Memorial Hall in Izumozaki, Niigata, by Yoshiro Taniguchi, greets visitors with deep eaves and a vertical lattice.
The exhibition building of the Ryokan Memorial Hall in Izumozaki, Niigata, by Yoshiro Taniguchi, is a low concrete hall with a veranda for Ryokan's calligraphy.
The Rengebuji Temple Omon Gate on Sado is a pair of cut-stone pillars about 3.7 metres high, built in 1928 at the north end of the approach as a landmark entrance.