Shōwa

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.

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.