Shōwa

A 1927 Stick Style school in Susai, Akaiwa, with clapboard and roughcast walls and a gambrel gable; moved at half size in 1984, now a free local history museum.

The annex of Ibara Civic Hall in Okayama, built in 1971 behind the stage, has a rehearsal room and a ventilation tower in the fair-faced concrete of the main hall.

The main building of Ibara Civic Hall in Okayama, a concrete civic hall of 1971, mixes fair-faced concrete of many textures and raises a tall clock tower in front.

Wooden photo studio built in Tsuyama in 1929, with a semicircular reception room, paired arched windows and a north clerestory for daylight. Still a working studio.

A 1927 granite myojin torii at the head of Oura Shrine's approach in Asakuchi, 6.5 m tall, its plaque written by Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi; registered in 2019.

Worship, offering and prayer halls in a row before the main hall of Oura Shrine, Asakuchi; remodeled about 1927, registered in 2019; carved beasts on the porch.

The 1927 sanctuary of Oura Shrine, Asakuchi, on a high stone platform: hip-and-gable copper roof, stacked gables and carved brackets; registered in 2019.

Completed in 1957 alongside the main block, this three-storey chamber by Maekawa carries an unbroken line of perforated brick beneath its cantilevered top floor.

Maekawa returned to his own Okayama site in 1971 with struck concrete instead of glass: a lattice facade over an open ground-floor colonnade, base-isolated in 2004.

Kunio Maekawa's first government building, completed 1957 on the site of Okayama Castle, registered in 2024. Piloti, raised corridor, black curtain wall.

A 1930 reinforced-concrete book store beside its 1902 brick twin at Okayama Asahi High School, its cornices and windows matched so the pair reads as one.

Built in 1927 at the centre of a Kurashiki school campus, this timber hall still hosts judo and kendo practice. A rare surviving prewar budojo, registered in 2007.

At the centre of Oku Kōmyōen, a Hansen's disease sanatorium on Nagashima, this 1941 timber hall bears three arched windows and was listed for its striking design.

This 1939 wooden schoolhouse, Kōmyō Gakuen, taught children at the Oku Kōmyōen sanatorium on Nagashima, a rare surviving school built inside such an institution.

This 1949 granite pier at Oku Kōmyōen faces the mainland across a strait, the boat landing that linked the Nagashima sanatorium before the bridge of 1988.

This 1938 concrete cable incline at Oku Kōmyōen lifted supplies from the wharf to the Nagashima sanatorium, back when everything reached the island by boat.

On high ground at Oku Kōmyōen stands a tiny 1943 concrete hōanden that once enshrined the emperor's portrait, a rare survivor at a Hansen's disease sanatorium.

The main building of the Okutsuso inn at Okutsu Onsen, Okayama, built around 1935, has a gabled front, lattices and deep eaves at the heart of the spa streetscape.

The Okutsu No. 1 Covered Conduit is a 122-metre reinforced-concrete channel faced in coursed stone, built in 1932 on the upper Yoshii River and registered in 2006.

The Okutsu No. 1 Aqueduct is an 18-metre reinforced-concrete rigid-frame bridge of 1932 that carries the power station's canal water across the Kirotani-gawa in Okayama.