Shōwa
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The Terada Family Residence Main Gate in Kaizuka, Osaka, built in 1936, uses wrinkled cedar poles and a steep tiled roof that reads convincingly as thatch.
A three-storey former private house of about 1939 in Kashiwara, Osaka, with an octagonal rooftop tower, green-glazed tiles and wire-mesh concrete walls. Not open.
A c.1939 storehouse in Kashiwara, Osaka, first built as a vaulted single-storey block, extended in 1945-1954, with Corinthian door capitals and mesh-concrete walls.
A c.1939 two-storey house in Kashiwara, Osaka, that looks like a storehouse but has wire-mesh concrete walls, offset hipped roofs, board eaves and balustrade trim.
A c.1939 concrete railing 13 metres long and 57 centimetres high beside the approach to a Tenrikyo church in Kashiwara, Osaka, with wire mesh exposed between posts.
The classroom wing of Tokajuku in Tondabayashi, Osaka, a long timber building of 1933 east of the main building, has three classrooms behind walls of glass doors.
The main building of Tokajuku in Tondabayashi, Osaka, a timber welfare building of 1933 on a green hillside, has a central porch, large windows and an upstairs hall.
Tomobayashi no Uji Shrine Temizusha, a large purification pavilion moved from Yasukuni Shrine, with three round columns at each corner and a slatted transom.
Tomobayashi no Uji Shrine Worship Hall and Offering Hall, 1941: a five-bay hip-and-gable hall of unpainted cypress with a chidori gable and a granite-paved floor.
Tomobayashi no Uji Shrine Main Hall, a 1940 Kasuga-style sanctuary three bays wide in unpainted Taiwanese cypress, seen through its lattice wall; why it was listed.
Tomobayashi no Uji Shrine Gate and Lattice Wall, 1940: a 55-meter openwork fence on kerbstones enclosing the main hall, with a gabled gate and carved kaerumata.
Tomobayashi no Uji Shrine Wakamiya Hachimangu Hall, built in 1940 as a school hoanden and moved here: a rare wooden shinmei-style hall with upright ridge posts.
The 1929 detached wing of the Nishiyama Family Residence in Toyonaka looks through wide glass doors onto Seiryutei and has a tea room and waiting arbor by Okada.
The Nishiyama Family Residence Connecting Corridor in Toyonaka, about 1940, opens to the garden on one side, with a woven ceiling and a pebble-and-tile floor.
A 1928 church in Shinsaibashi, Osaka, built with Nakamura Mamoru's concrete block system. Registered in 2009; note the grand stair and 6-pillar entrance.
A 1929 concrete church facing Osaka Tenmangu Shrine, registered in 2015. Its sanctuary has pierced elliptical arch beams and a 2021 Garnier pipe organ.
Murano Togo's 1928 concrete church tower in Abeno, Osaka, registered in 2025, with circle-and-cross openwork and the curving 1981 chapel he designed behind it.
Early Showa yakuimon gate, 1.4 m wide, atop steps in the stone wall at the back of a former cotton merchant's house in Yao, Osaka, between rice storehouse and barn.
Early Showa barn at a former cotton merchant's house in Yao, Osaka, with doors at each end under an open lean-to and exposed-frame plaster walls. Listed 2019.
The northern gate of an Osaka acupuncture compound, built around 1938 with copper tiles, a slatted transom and a coffered ceiling behind. Registered in 2019.