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The 1930 offering hall linking the worship hall and main hall at Miyukimori Tenjingu Shrine, Osaka: two bays, diamond-lattice windows and two tiers of beams.
The 1930 main hall of Miyukimori Tenjingu Shrine, Osaka: a three-bay nagare-zukuri with daibutsuyo bracket profiles, its floor raised to show above the fence.
Fujii Koji designed this Korien house in 1930 for an Osaka textile merchant. It retains its ventilation flues, chair-height rooms and original furniture.
Only ten square metres, this storehouse was rebuilt in fire-resistant earthen-wall construction in 1941, in preparation for war. Its bracing records the period.
Thirteen square metres holding one room of four and a half mats, this outbuilding housed the Yagi family's live-in groom. Its south door faced the stable.
The gate and 22-metre board fence closing the north edge of the Yagi estate at Korien, designed by Fujii Koji to match the house behind it. Registered 2023.
Yamano Family Residence Sake Brewery 4 is an early Showa koji house at a Katano brewery: a long 2-storey dozo with openings only in its east gable, board-lined.
An early Shōwa garden gate with short plastered walls at the Yokouchi house in Higashiosaka: a bracketed gate that divides the forecourt from the main garden.
A grand 1932 rice merchant's machiya on Kishiwada's old Kishū Kaidō, with a honkawara-tiled roof, a through-passage doma and rare koematsu pine fittings.
The Riverside Building of 1965 on the Tosabori River in Osaka gathers its structure to free full-length windows front and back, a fine International Style office.
The Wada Family Residence Inner Storehouse in Kishiwada, Osaka, is a small plastered storehouse of 1930, noted for shaped brackets and a cornice on all four sides.
The Wada Family Residence Inner Wall in Kishiwada, Osaka, is an L-shaped earthen wall of 1930 with a gate and windows, dividing the garden from the entrance path.
The Wada Family Residence Kitchen Gate in Kishiwada, Osaka, is a 1930 service gate 1.8 metres wide, with a gently curved tiled roof in a light sukiya style.
The Wada Family Residence Main House in Kishiwada, Osaka, is a 1930 two-storey mansion on an L-shaped plan, with a Western-style room and a formal guest room.
The Wada Family Residence Outer Storehouse in Kishiwada, Osaka, is a 1930 storehouse of 115 square metres for furniture and fittings, with three doorways.
The Wada Family Residence Outer Wall in Kishiwada, Osaka, is a 1930 brick wall on a tall stone base, marking the edge of a river that once ran past the estate.
The Wada Family Residence Nagayamon Gate in Kishiwada, Osaka, is a 1930 gatehouse with a tiled roof, its gateway in the right half and a waiting room on the left.
The Wada Family Residence East Wall in Kishiwada, Osaka, is an earthen wall of 1930, about 25 metres long, stepped partway along its length to follow the ground.
The Wada Family Residence Waiting Arbor in Kishiwada, Osaka, is a tiny 1930 bench shelter beside the kitchen gate, with rough clay walls and a tea-house window.
Architect Ikedaya Hisakichi built this single-storey house in Izumisano, Osaka, around 1927. A three-mat tea room of salvaged temple timber adjoins the entrance.