Shōwa
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Zozan Shrine Ema Hall in Nagano is an open-sided 1938 pavilion with deep eaves and a gable lattice, for ema plaques and rest. Registered as a property in 2005.
Zozan Shrine Saikan in Nagano is a 1938 priests' hall with a tiled roof, curved karahafu porch, tall windows and Western-style rooms. Registered in 2005.
Zozan Shrine Office in Nagano is a long 1938 hip-and-gable building with a formal shikidai entrance, alcove rooms and many roofs. Registered in late 2005.
Zozan Shrine Worship Hall and Prayer Hall in Nagano is a 1938 hip-and-gable hall with lattice shutters, offering rooms and a rear prayer hall. Registered 2005.
Zozan Shrine Treasure Hall in Nagano is a 30 m2 gabled storehouse of 1938 on a cut-stone base, with barred windows and vents. Registered as a property in 2005.
Zozan Shrine Main Hall in Matsushiro, Nagano, is a 1938 three-bay nagare-zukuri sanctuary with no carved side screens, registered as a cultural property in 2005.
A tiny iron-roofed shed of 8.4 square metres covering the founding-era round well at the Takeshige brewery in Motai, where soft Mt. Tateshina water begins its work.
A tall early-Showa storehouse at the north edge of the Takeshige brewery in Motai, built to season the timber for its sake barrels and marking the compound's growth.
An early-Showa rice-polishing house at the Takeshige brewery in Motai, set where waterways meet and once driven by a wheel on the roadside channel to mill the rice.
An early-Showa L-shaped earthen cellar on the corner across the old Nakasendo from a Nagano brewery's gate, its gable turned to the road to close the street scene.
An early-Showa single-storey earthen cellar south of the old Nakasendo in Motai, its east gable facing the lane to the highway, its clapboard base matching the next.
A small Hachiman shrine of 1930 at the back of a Nagano brewer's estate: a one-bay nagare-zukuri sanctuary in a copper-roofed shelter with a gabled hall before it.
Completed in 1933 and registered in 2003, this scratch-tiled block at Matsumoto Fukashi High School carries pointed arches said to echo Tokyo's Yasuda Auditorium.
This 1934 hall at Matsumoto Fukashi High School doubles as a gymnasium, resting a steel-trussed pantile roof on concrete walls behind five pointed entrance arches.
The Nichirinsha in Azumino is a circular two-storey timber hall 13 metres across, modelled on the Uchihara barracks, completed in May 1945 and registered in 2009.
A 1933 reinforced concrete Anglican church on the old Zenkoji Road in Chikuma, Nagano, registered in 2023, with buttress-style piers and round-arched windows.
A 1932 timber Anglican church in Iiyama, Nagano, registered in 2017, with a bell turret, pointed-arch windows and tatami seating laid from the very start.
Okaya Saint Barnabas Church, an Anglican church of 1928 in Okaya, Nagano, has a south front like a line of mountain peaks, temple-style ornament and tatami seating.
Nozawa Onsen Lodge in Nagano, an acorn-shaped timber ski lodge of 1969 by Yoshizaka Takamasa and Atelier U, wraps split-level rooms round a spiral stair.
The Hatakoshi Family Residence Front Gate in Matsumoto, Nagano, is a Showa-era roofless kabukimon of two braced posts joined by a beam, 4 metres wide.