Shōwa

Kawabun's 1950 gate and 25 metres of roofed wall front Uonotana-dori in Nagoya, registered in 2005. Added eaves lend rank to a frame only 3.9 metres wide.

A detached room of 1950 to 1952 behind Kawabun's main house in Nagoya, registered in 2005. The 10-mat room covers 63 square metres, the corridor leading to it 52.

Built in 1937, registered in 2005: a 132-square-metre concrete kitchen behind Kawabun's main house in Nagoya, and the oldest of the compound's five listings.

Yoyotei at the Kawabun restaurant in Nagoya: a 21 square metre timber pavilion of 1950 to 1952, listed 2005. Round log posts, a kakekomi ceiling, and visiting.

Standing at the southeast corner of Renkeiji, a Jodo Shinshu Otani-ha temple in Agui Town, Aichi Prefecture, the Renkeiji Earthen Walls were built in 1951 as a unified composition with the temple's Main Gate. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2013, the walls combine stone-block foundations, vertical wood plank wainscoting, white plaster, and pantile roofing — an elegant expression of traditional Japanese boundary architecture.

Discover Nagahama Ohashi Bridge in Ozu City, Ehime, Japan's oldest still-operating bascule road bridge. Built in 1935, this striking red landmark over the Hijikawa River opens regularly for visitors and was designated an Important Cultural Property in 2014.

The Middle and East Buildings of Hizuchi Elementary School, Yawatahama, Ehime, designated 2012. Matsumura Masatsune's timber modernism, cluster plan, and open days.

A 9.5-metre concrete lantern of 1931 beside a pilgrimage road at Saijo in Ehime, registered in 2002, with jewel finial, cap and four-way fire chamber all cast.

Built in 1938 at Ainan in Ehime, the Imura Family Residence Main House splits at its door: Japanese rooms west, drawing room and green tiles east. Registered 2003.

Uchinoura Public Hall, a 1937 timber hall on Kawanoishi harbour in Yawatahama, Ehime, sets a washed-mortar Western face over a tatami room. Registered in 2001.

Umebijin Sake Brewery Boiler Room and Chimney in Yawatahama, Ehime, dates from 1928: a king-post truss, a monitor roof for steam, and a brick chimney.

Umebijin Sake Brewery Office in Yawatahama, Ehime, is a tiled 1931 shop-office registered in 2004. Granite rustication, sash windows, a parapet, and how to visit.

The Ehime Prefectural Education Hall of 1937 in Matsuyama, a three-storey timber building by a prefectural architect, blends Western design with Japanese ornament.

The Ehime Prefectural Government Main Building in Matsuyama, completed in 1929, is an H-shaped concrete office with a domed tower, still in use by the prefecture.

Built in 1927 as a retirement house, the Ochi Family Residence Sukiya in Saijo, Ehime was registered in 2002 for its exemplary design, coffered and woven ceilings.

The Ochi Family Residence Tea House in Saijo, Ehime, called Shoin, is a 15-square-metre tea room of 1927, registered in 2002 for its exacting small-room design.

Quietly standing within the precincts of Chōraku-ji Temple in Matsuyama City, Ehime Prefecture, the Kagiya Kana Shōkōdō (Kagiya Kana Memorial Hall) was built in 1929 to honor the achievements of Kagiya Kana, a woman who created Iyo-kasuri, one of Japan's three great kasuri textiles. Designed by the renowned architect Kigo Shichirō, who also created the famous Bansui-sō and the Ehime Prefectural Government Main Building, this distinctive reinforced-concrete octagonal hall is supported by eight entasis columns and traditional bracket sets, beautifully fusing Eastern and Western architectural sensibilities. It was registered as a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan in 2001.

Kihoku Town Hall in Ehime Prefecture is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property completed in 1958 as the original Hiromi Town Hall, designed by the office of Czech-born architect Antonin Raymond. Its third-floor council chamber features a then-cutting-edge hyperbolic paraboloid shell roof, and circular glass blocks scatter colored light across the interior. A meticulously faithful renovation has earned it multiple national architectural awards, and it is now celebrated as a hidden gem of postwar Japanese modernism.

Built in the early Showa era as a study for the Kimura children, this small wing in Mitsu, Matsuyama, opens its upper east wall toward the harbour. Registered 2019.

The youngest building on the Sano family plot in Uchiko, Ehime, built around 1932. Its high rooms and glazed veranda mark it as an early Showa detached wing.