Shōwa
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An early Showa two-story storehouse in Nara City with a washed artificial-stone base, a black-plaster door frame and plaster carried over its eaves; registered 2018.
The Ushitani house in Haibara, Uda, Nara, built in 1968 to a design by the Sakakura Junzo office, sets its rooms clockwise in a square plan under radiating rafters.
Uchiyama-ke Kashiya, registered in 2020, is a single-storey Nara house built to be let in the Showa Depression. Grey lime walls, and no earth passage inside.
Built in 1930 at the southeast corner of a Naramachi plot, this eleven-square-metre earthen storehouse has plastered walls, board skirting and a sliding door.
A storehouse of about 1938 in the northwest corner of the Okahashi estate in Kashihara, Nara, named for that direction, with a braced wagoya roof. Registered 2020.
A 30-metre early Showa gatehouse at the Okahashi estate in Kashihara, Nara, with eaves on projecting brackets and gatekeeper and servant rooms. Registered in 2020.
An early Showa building at the Okahashi estate in Kashihara, Nara, pairing a garden gate and a barn under one gable, told apart by the boarding. Registered 2020.
The smallest of the 15 Okahashi buildings in Kashihara, Nara: a 17-square-metre barn with a maneki roof and a matching 7.2-metre tiled wall. Registered 2020.
An early Showa stone gate with an iron arch and a 119-metre tiled earthen wall enclosing the back of the Okahashi estate in Kashihara, Nara. Seen from the east lane.
The smallest of seven registered storehouses at the Okahashi estate in Kashihara, Nara, this corner rice store carries three plaster bands under its eaves.
The early Showa lodging where yamamori, stewards of the Okahashi family's Yoshino forests, stayed when visiting its Kashihara estate in Nara. Registered in 2020.
At the Okahashi estate in Kashihara, Nara, the early Showa lodging where the shutto, chief of the family's Yoshino forest stewards, stayed. Joined to the main house.
A 25 m earthen wall of about 1942 flanking a samurai house gate in Nara, built on Mikasa andesite with bands of tile edges across its face and a pantile coping.
The former Ikoma town hall in Nara, a U-shaped timber building of 1933 with three hip-and-gable fronts, is a fine example of Japanese-style government architecture.
A 2-storey early Showa reinforced concrete storehouse in Sakurai finished like a traditional earthen kura, plastered white to the eaves under a tiled gable roof.
A single-storey early Showa sukiya-style wing in Sakurai with staggered 6- and 8-mat rooms, a raised ceiling, bamboo and wickerwork, and deep copper-edged eaves.
An early Showa tea room of three and a half mats in Sakurai with a triangular gable, crawl-in door, bamboo alcove post and dropped and sloping ceilings.
A low, single-storey early Showa earthen storehouse in Sakurai with a stone-faced base and hooded north door front, its interior since converted into a bath.
A 2-storey early Showa reception wing in Sakurai with matching 6- and 8-mat suites on both floors, a tall upper storey and glass-doored verandas onto a garden.
A small early Showa half-timbered Western-style house in a Sakurai timber merchant's compound, with a strutted gable, arched porch and plaster ceiling medallion.