Shōwa
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Built about 1927 to store tea, Maedaen Honten Warehouse in Nogata, Fukuoka, is brick and timber clad in iron sheet, roofed on a king post truss. Now a rental hall.
Maedaen Honten Store in Nogata, Fukuoka, is a tea merchant's shop of about 1927, black-plastered and copper-clad on the upper storey. Registered 2013; now a cafe.
Built in 1936 in Daimyo, Fukuoka, this two-story house by the Housing Improvement Society splits guest and family rooms and stacks bay windows under layered eaves.
A 12-square-meter earthen storehouse of 1936 in Daimyo, Fukuoka, reached via a courtyard from the kitchen, with raked roof beams and star-pattern vent grilles.
The 1936 gate and wall of a Daimyo, Fukuoka house: a tiled munamon with lattice doors and a wicket, and a block wall in rough mortar matching the parlor beside it.
A tiny 1936 reception parlor in Daimyo, Fukuoka: hipped tile roof, rough mortar walls that flow into the boundary wall, and openings on all four sides.
A 1935 farm warehouse on the Minamikubota estate in Ukiha, Fukuoka, clad in vertical boards, with a south lean-to open to the outside; newest of eight registered.
Built in 1960 beside the South Building, this concrete service block at Moji Golf Club in Kitakyushu keeps players' and caddies' routes apart; registered in 2014.
The 1960 main clubhouse by Antonin Raymond at Moji Golf Club, Kitakyushu: bare concrete frame, cedar-log trusses, shoji clerestories and a hooded fireplace upstairs.
A 1960 timber starter's hut at Moji Golf Club, Kitakyushu, in the clubhouse's orange-red, with exposed log beams and a band of waist-high windows; registered 2014.
An early Showa farmhouse in Tagomori, Ukiha, whose hipped thatch roof is layered with cedar bark, a local roofing now rare in these hills. Registered in 2024.
Ryotei Masa Front Gate and Wall, the 1954 gate and 107 m tiled wall around a ryotei in Nakasu, Fukuoka: a canopied west gate and board-faced wall, seen from outside.
Ryotei Masa Main House, a 1954 two-story dining hall in Nakasu, Fukuoka, with clay okabe walls, three rooms and an upstairs hall off central corridors, and access.
Ryotei Masa New Wing, a 1961 tatami wing in Nakasu, Fukuoka, with a 12-mat room, fusuma that slide into the walls, horizontal-bar shoji and a flat lit ceiling.
Ryotei Masa Kitchen Wing, a 1954 service wing behind the main house in Nakasu, Fukuoka, with a kitchen, office and reception room in the Yoshida Isoya manner.
Ryotei Masa Detached Wing, a 1954 garden pavilion in Nakasu, Fukuoka, with a moon-viewing veranda, a tea room with a naguri post and lattice window, copper eaves.
Reizenso in Hakata, Fukuoka, a concrete apartment block of 1958 with stepped terraces, survives from the post-war rebuilding of old Hakata and now houses artists.
A 1953 two-storey house at the centre of the Abe estate in Fukushima City, its rooms divided by clay walls rather than sliding doors, with a wide south corridor.
The Amano Family Residence Main Gate in Odaka, Minamisoma, is a 1927 granite gate: two 3 m pillars with copper pyramid caps, flanked by torii-shaped side gates.
The Amano Family Residence Side Gate, Rear Gate and Wall in Minamisoma is a 100 m reinforced concrete wall of 1927, with granite base and coping, and two gates.