Shōwa
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A 1970 concrete workshop at Kyushu University, Fukuoka, where a passage under its front corridor leads from the Fry Pan plaza to a small courtyard. Registered 2025.
The Former Kyushu Imperial University Faculty of Engineering Main Building of 1930 has a scratch-tile tower, a tiered lecture hall and a free museum room.
The Former Kurauchi Family Residence Storehouse in Chikujo, Fukuoka, is an L-shaped early Showa store at the estate's southwest corner, split into tool rooms.
The Former Kurauchi Family Residence Rice Storehouse in Chikujo, Fukuoka, is an early Showa rice store with a helmet-style gable and white walls to the road.
The Kyushu Tategu Mokkosho Warehouse in Okawa, Fukuoka, a timber warehouse of 1956 with four tall windows and a parapet, tells of post-war prosperity in woodworking.
A 1934 guest house in Tagawa, Fukuoka, roofed in copper and known as the Akagane Goten. Its upper hall has a coved coffered ceiling and a veranda facing Kawaradake.
The Former Miidera Pumping Station and Substation in Kurume, Fukuoka, is a brick waterworks of 1933 with arched windows and king-post trusses, registered in 2008.
This 1929 building at Kogarasu Shrine in Fukuoka, where food offerings are prepared, is the only tiled structure in the precinct. It covers 19.00 square metres.
An open ablution pavilion of 1929 beside the approach at Kogarasu Shrine in Fukuoka. Four posts lean inward over a stone basin inscribed that same year.
The smallest of the seven listed structures at Kogarasu Shrine in Fukuoka, this 1929 hall of 3.42 square metres stands on a granite podium in a corner.
The largest listed structure at Kogarasu Shrine in Fukuoka, this open worship hall of 1929 covers 35.09 square metres. Wisteria is carved above its canopy.
A stone pillar of 1929 standing 6.0 metres beside the worship hall at Kogarasu Shrine in Fukuoka, topped by a bronze three-legged crow and inscribed with donors.
Built in 1929 on the highest ground at Kogarasu Shrine in Fukuoka, this three-bay nagare-zukuri hall of 19.67 square metres was listed in 2019. A fence rings it.
A timber openwork fence of 1929 squaring the main hall at Kogarasu Shrine in Fukuoka, running 33.11 metres. Slatted panels let the hall show through it.
The Jokyu Soy Sauce Rear Zashiki in Fukuoka is an early Showa parlor building, the president's home until 1964, with an inventive alcove and trapezoidal cupboards.
A stone wall of about 1933 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka, about 48 m long, its Edo-kiri dressed blocks laid 5 courses high by the gate, 3 along the road.
A 2-story retirement house of about 1933 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka, with a Buddhist altar room, a bell-shaped window and a sukiya-style study upstairs.
A 2-story storehouse of about 1933 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka, which held serving ware and is joined to the retirement house by an arched corridor.
A side gate of about 1933 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka: a bracket-arm gate whose outer roof slope and side walls are laid with a local left-hand pantile.
A small storehouse of about 1933 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka, its plastered walls tiled only at the lower corners, with a copper-shuttered window.