Shōwa
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A private archery hall of about 1933 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka, with a shooting floor, an anteroom with a Shinto altar, and a target house facing it.
A storehouse of about 1933 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka, with a clay-walled timber store and a wooden firewood store under stepped gabled roofs.
A 2-story building of about 1933 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka, used as servants' quarters until about 1945, with lattices fitted to its upstairs windows.
An earthen wall of about 1933 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka, 106 meters long, with plaster walls, bark or board at the base and local left-hand pantiles.
A barn of about 1933 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka: 10.1 meters long but 1.9 meters deep, its south face built as one with the earthen wall.
A target house of about 1933 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka, facing the archery hall, with an open front under a curved tie beam and cedar bark walls.
A firewood shed of about 1933 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka, open at the front and roofed with local left-hand pantiles; the smallest of the 18.
The Tadokoro Shoten Warehouse in Yahata, Kitakyushu, an early Showa store for tea, is an L-shaped building of local slag brick under an irregular hipped roof.
The Najima Bridge of 1933 over the Tatara River in Fukuoka carries Route 3 on seven flat concrete arches, with classical balconies and domed newel posts.
The brick wall of about 1927 at the Lutheran church in Kurume, Fukuoka, shows seven arches between evenly spaced piers, a street frontage that matches the chapel.
Tetsugyuan, the tea house of the Nogata Tanio Art Museum in Fukuoka, was built around 1941 in sukiya style. Tea room, mizuya and waiting room run in one line.
The Nogata Tanio Art Museum Western Wing in Fukuoka was rebuilt around 1941 as the Okuno Clinic after a fire. Composite columns and tiled walls hide a timber frame.
Built around 1941 behind the Okuno Clinic in Nogata, Fukuoka, the Japanese Wing housed the family. A mud-walled storehouse at one corner holds the collection.
The Bairinji Tea House of 1958 in Kurume, Fukuoka, an early work by Kikutake Kiyonori, rests a roof-and-beam slab on a few columns behind walls of glass.
Kiku, the central annex of the former Ryokan Tagawa in Kokura, Kitakyushu, built in 1962, has deep eaves and a railed veranda that make it seem to float on the pond.
Genkai, the western annex of the former Ryokan Tagawa in Kokura, Kitakyushu, built in 1962, uses bamboo and logs in a hermitage manner with a modern ceiling grid.
Sugao, an annex of the former Ryokan Tagawa in Kokura, Kitakyushu, built in 1962, is a shoin-style sukiya that sets curtains between shoji and glass doors.
The corridor of the former Ryokan Tagawa annex in Kokura, Kitakyushu, built in 1962, links three sukiya rooms with a tiled floor, log posts and a bamboo ceiling.
The 1936 night duty annexe of the rush trade offices in Oki Town, Fukuoka. Plastered walls, an irimoya roof, two tatami rooms and a kitchen. Registered 2020.
A 1936 timber office in Oki Town, Fukuoka, built for the local rush trade. Clapboard walls with applied sticks outside, Art Deco ceilings within. Registered 2020.