Shōwa
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Built new in 1942 for the relocated precincts, the Aritoshi Shrine Open Corridor in Izumisano runs eleven open bays along a stone wall to the main hall.
Rebuilt in 1940 and moved two years later, the Aritoshi Shrine South Purification Pavilion in Izumisano shelters a large stone basin inscribed with 1694.
The Ikoma Watch Shop in central Osaka, built in 1930 to a design by So Hyozo, is a five-storey corner building with a clock tower and scratch-tile walls.
An early Showa storehouse in Fukae, Osaka, on level ground beside the raised storehouse, its attached walls closing the edge of the old compound. Registered 2023.
A 1960 two-storey Ema Hall at the shrine entrance that doubles as a gate, with a sword and arrow on its ridge and guardian statues among the votive plaques.
A 26-meter copper-roofed openwork fence of about 1931 that runs back from the worship hall, flanks the main hall and stops at its stone base; registered in 2025.
A T-shaped 1931 worship hall and offering hall at Ishikiri Tsurugiya Shrine, a curved porch gable under a triangular gable, the rear roof tucked under the main hall.
A 1931 sanken-sha nagare-zukuri main hall on a tall stone platform in Higashiosaka, with tortoiseshell rain guards on its gables and Daibutsuyo-style beam ends.
A 1937 waiting shelter in the outer roji of the Kuboso Memorial Museum of Art tea compound, where guests sat before Chosentei, copying the Omotesenke layout.
A 1937 well curb of four granite stones, about 70 cm square, in the outer roji of the Kuboso Memorial Museum of Art tea compound; a dry copy of an Omotesenke well.
A tiny 1937 waiting bench with a privy in the inner roji of the Kuboso Memorial Museum of Art tea compound, where guests bound for the tea room Soan sat.
A 1937 gate 1.0 m wide between the outer and inner gardens of the Kuboso Memorial Museum of Art tea compound, with log posts and bamboo lattice doors.
The 1937 entrance wing of the Kuboso Memorial Museum of Art tea compound: a copper-trimmed tile gable, a canopied gable-end door and a bamboo-slat step-in.
A small 1941 tea room at the foot of the arched bridge in the Kuboso Memorial Museum of Art garden, with a stepped roof, copper canopy and upright guest entrance.
The 1937 front gate of the Kuboso Memorial Museum of Art tea compound: a 2.1 m bracket-armed gate with cypress-bark eaves, lattice doors and a log lintel.
A tiny 1937 tea room at the Kuboso Memorial Museum of Art copying Omotesenke's Fushin-an: crawl-in entrance, skylight and a bent central post. Closed to visitors.
A 1937 ten-mat tea room at the Kuboso Memorial Museum of Art copying Omotesenke's Zangetsu-tei down to its measurements. Open on Sundays; photos allowed, no tripods.
A 1937 wall-like garden gate 2.7 m long in the Kuboso Memorial Museum of Art tea compound, with a low sliding doorway and a lath window, copied from Zangetsu-tei.
Gazoku-sanso, the 1937 Ikeda home of Hankyu founder Kobayashi Ichizo, blends Spanish tiles and Tatsuyama stone. It is now the Kobayashi Ichizo Memorial Hall.
A 47-metre reinforced-concrete wall around Kobayashi Ichizo's Ikeda villa, topped with the same tiles as the house so the boundary reads as part of the design.