Shōwa
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Tomi Shrine Sacred Food Offering Hall of 1939 in Nara City is a plastered building of 14 square metres for preparing offerings, with one cypress bark door canopy.
Tomi Shrine Purification Pavilion was made in 1939 by rebuilding the old front gate. Open on all sides, it carries the only round and flat tiled roof at the shrine.
The Naito family middle gate in Ikedacho, Nara, built in the early Showa era, is a tiled bracketed gate with cross-braced doors between front yard and garden.
Nakagawa Family Residence Annex, an early Showa garden annex in Nara: hipped-and-gabled to the courtyard, gabled behind, with log rafters and grey plaster walls.
The Nishida Family Residence Stone Wall rings an early Showa estate in Yamatokoriyama for about 160 metres, with dressed corners and tortoise-shell masonry.
The Nishida Family Residence Inner Storehouse links two wings of an early Showa house in Yamatokoriyama and has a floating tiled roof and a namako wall.
The Nishida Family Residence Shrine in Yamatokoriyama is a one-bay early Showa household shrine under a square metre, built with every part of a full sanctuary.
The Nishida Family Residence Main House Central Wing in Yamatokoriyama is a tall early Showa house with a multi-gabled roof and a lacquered Bamboo Room.
The Nishida Family Residence Main House West Wing in Yamatokoriyama is a single-storey early Showa link whose side entrance is framed by two seven-sided windows.
The Nishida Family Residence Main House South Wing in Yamatokoriyama is an early Showa guest wing pairing a formal tatami room with a parquet-ceilinged Western room.
The Nishida Family Residence Storehouse is a two-storey early Showa kura in Yamatokoriyama, attached to the main house, with namako tiles on its south face.
The Nishida Family Residence Worship Pavilion is a four-post early Showa prayer shelter before a household shrine in Yamatokoriyama, with a diamond-lattice transom.
The Nishida Family Residence Detached Room is a tiny early Showa sukiya pavilion in a Yamatokoriyama garden, with a round window and a ceiling of radiating battens.
The Fujioka Family Residence Main House in Takabatakecho, Nara, is a townhouse of about 1948 on the old Yagyu road, registered in 2020. Private; exterior only.
The Fujioka Family Residence Main House in Kideracho, Nara, is a 1928 farmhouse with a lattice townhouse front and a farmhouse plan. Registered 2016; a private home.
The main house of the Horii Family Residence in Anashi, Sakurai, built in 1932, faces Mount Miwa and sets glazed doors into a carefully built traditional frame.
The 1932 nagayamon gate of the Horii Family Residence in Anashi, Sakurai, pairs a zelkova gateway and slatted transom with the Anashi River as the estate's front.
The wall of the Horii Family Residence in Anashi, Sakurai, built about 1932, runs 30 metres from the gate in plaster and board on dressed stone under tiled coping.
A small 1946 clinic building in Oji, Nara, added to the Matsuura house when the family opened a practice: mortar walls, a parapet and a green-glass round window.
A small early Showa clay storehouse joined to the Matsumoto main house in Kodera, Nara, its rafters sealed in plaster; registered in 2017 as a model of design.