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Built in 1934 as an office and residence when an Osaka bottle-cap maker moved to Kitatsumori, with a coffered reception room and an upstairs tatami room.
A one-story office of about 1937 at an Osaka bottle-cap factory, fronted in scratch tile and split stone, with a staff canteen behind and a shrine-topped time clock.
A 207-square-meter timber store of about 1934 at an Osaka bottle-cap factory, used for raw materials until the late 1980s, with built-in shelves and a wagoya roof.
A 309-square-meter timber workshop built in 1934 at an Osaka bottle-cap factory, with a hybrid wagoya and truss roof frame under a wide daylighting clerestory.
A 9.4-square-meter concrete structure hidden behind a garden mound at an Osaka bottle-cap factory, said to be a wartime shelter and later made into a lavatory.
The 1937 timber head office of an Osaka bottle-cap maker, faced in cream tile under French-tile canopies, still keeps its original reception room and ceiling fans.
A 3-square-meter clapboard gatehouse of about 1937 at an Osaka bottle-cap factory, with arched windows outside and a tatami floor and reception counter within.
Reinforced-concrete gateposts of about 1937 at an Osaka bottle-cap factory, with oval caps, pebble-washed surfaces and lamp windows bearing the company crest.
A clapboard building of about 1937 at an Osaka bottle-cap factory, with a jerkinhead roof, bracketed window canopies and high windows hinting at a former workshop.
In Fukae, Osaka, the former Koda residence's inui storehouse is an earthen dan-gura raised against floods, its west wall set with twin round windows above a tiled fence.
In Fukae, Osaka, the former Koda residence's front gate stands between two storehouses, its deep eaves, thick doors and stone steps marking a former headman's standing.
In Fukae, Osaka, the former Koda residence's 1935 main house sets a farmhouse ground floor beneath a modern upper floor, and alone of the four is cited as a design model.
In Fukae, Osaka, the former Koda residence's storehouse is an earthen barn with its floor set in three tiers against floods, a raised central ridge hiding a half-floor.
The largest Fujii outbuilding, this early-Showa parlour pairs an eight-mat room with glazed screens and an alcove pierced by an Oribe window from the tea room.
A 1935 suburban house in Toyonaka, Osaka, designed by Hankyu estate architect Shimomura Kisaburo as his own home, with cabin-style gables and pale vermilion tiles.
The Mido Building in Osaka, built by Takenaka in 1965 as its local head office, is a set-back office block of wide spans with walls faced in three-coloured tile.
Minase Shrine Worship Hall and Offering Hall in Shimamoto, Osaka, was designed by Sunami Takashi in 1929, with an archaic roof frame and curved struts.
The former Fukushima branch of the Kawasaki Savings Bank in Osaka, built in 1934, curves its front gently to the plot behind four giant fluted Ionic columns.
The 1930 lattice fence around the main hall of Miyukimori Tenjingu Shrine, Osaka: 32 meters on a stone base, with slatted windows, bracket arms and chamfered posts.
The 1930 worship hall of Miyukimori Tenjingu Shrine, Osaka, on a rounded kamebara base with a curved karahafu porch, a fine example of Kamakura-revival design.