Shōwa
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The street gate of the Matsumoto estate in Kodera, Nara: an early Showa hipped gate with a gatekeeper's room, double sliding doors and clay walls; registered 2017.
A two-storey clay storehouse of 1930 on a tall stone base in the north plot of the Matsumoto estate, Kodera, Nara; the only one with a firm date. Registered 2017.
A 19 m clay-walled building on the north plot of the Matsumoto estate in Kodera, Nara, with rice store, work floor and barn in a row under one roof. Registered 2017.
A small early Showa barn in the north plot of the Matsumoto estate in Kodera, Nara, open on the east, with rough clay walls and an earth floor. Registered 2017.
An early Showa gatehouse on the street side of the Matsumoto estate's north plot in Kodera, Nara: lodge, gate and fence in one plastered wall. Registered 2017.
An early Showa outbuilding east of the Matsumoto main house in Kodera, Nara: two rooms for live-in farmhands and a firewood shed under one roof. Registered 2017.
The largest building of the Matsumoto estate in Kodera, Nara: an early Showa farmhouse ten bays long with an earth floor and six raised rooms; registered 2017.
A long early Showa clay storehouse on the Matsumoto estate in Kodera, Nara, that held tableware for entertaining; five rooms inside and a toilet. Registered 2017.
An early Showa barn on the east side of the Matsumoto estate in Kodera, Nara: a boarded, plastered fence outside and an open log-post shed inside. Registered 2017.
An early Showa barn on the street side of the Matsumoto estate in Kodera, Nara, called the mortar room: half wall with double doors, half open shed. Registered 2017.
Early Showa clay walls closing the south-west corner of the Matsumoto estate in Kodera, Nara: 39 m in all, stepping down at the corner. Registered in 2017.
An early Showa rice storehouse, 7.9 by 5.9 m, at the back of a rice merchant's estate in Naramachi, Nara; its upper floor was removed soon after it was built.
An early Showa earth-walled grain store, 6.9 by 4.9 m, behind a Naramachi rice merchant's house in Nara, with nisurigi battens lining its walls. Registered in 2015.
An early Showa corridor behind a Naramachi townhouse in Nara, its 6 m log beam hung from the eaves so no posts block the courtyard. Registered in 2015.
A 1949 cylindrical water divider in Nanto, Toyama, registered in 2020, the prefecture's oldest, sharing irrigation water fairly among three channels on the Tonami Plain.
A 1935 connecting hall joining the 1883 main hall to the offering hall of Ariso Sho Hachimangu Shrine in Takaoka, with plain square posts, lattice shutters, blinds.
The 1935 front hall of Ariso Sho Hachimangu Shrine in Takaoka, whose worship and offering halls share one many-gabled yatsumune-zukuri copper roof with chigi.
The Ushijima Lock in Toyama City, a small concrete lock of about 1934 with timber mitre gates, regulates water between the Fugan Canal and the Itachi River.
Katsurayu in Johana, Toyama, a former bathhouse of about 1930 in three wings, has a copper-clad Western-style front that brightens the old temple town.
A timber workshop of 1957 beside the Minatogawa at Himi, Toyama, built as igusa matting demand peaked. Its ground floor opens into the earthen warehouse next door.