Shōwa
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Built around 1965 by the 17th Horikiri head as a lawyer's study, this 11 m² hip-and-gable building faces the lane with the front gate in Iizaka Onsen.
The street frontage of the Sasa Masamune brewery in Kitakata, Fukushima: a yakui-mon gate of about 1927 and a 35-meter wall, spared by the June 2026 fire.
Added in 1932 as retirement quarters for the head of the Sato household in Fukushima City, this annexe holds an eight-mat room with a toko alcove and shoin window.
A 1954 sabo dam on the Shionokawa near Tsuchiyu, 47 m long and 15 m high, faced on both sides in diagonally laid kenchi stone over rubble concrete. Registered 2008.
Built in 1956 where the Shionokawa meets the Arakawa near Tsuchiyu, this 16 m sabo dam, tallest of the 15, has a thick 3.0 m crest. Registered in 2008.
The Suzuzen Kurazashiki is a 1929 storehouse in Aizuwakamatsu with a workroom and tatami parlors, a scratch-tile base and red roof tiles. Registered in 2021.
The Suzuzen Store is an early Showa shop and office in Aizuwakamatsu whose timber front is washed artificial stone scored like ashlar. Registered in 2021.
The Suzuzen Nakazashiki is a 1929 parlor wing in Aizuwakamatsu joining two tatami rooms by a corridor around a small courtyard. Registered nationally in 2021.
The Suzuzen Nizukurigura is an early Showa storehouse in Aizuwakamatsu where lacquerware was packed, its street side finished like stone. Registered in 2021.
A 1933 two-storey timber farmhouse in Ishikawa, Fukushima, built on a T-plan with formal alcove fixtures and a 15-mat double-height reception room. Registered 2011.
The Anglican Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Koriyama, Fukushima, a concrete church of 1931, shows fine Gothic design in its tower and scissor-truss roof.
The Hayashi family house in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima, a large two-storey Japanese house of 1927 under a run of gables, keeps three 15-mat guest rooms upstairs.
A sabo dam of 1948, enlarged in 1951, in the middle of Tsuchiyu Onsen, Fukushima, with coursed stone downstream and diagonal masonry upstream. Registered 2008.
A sabo dam near Tsuchiyu joining a 1951 prefectural dam with a larger national dam 66 m long and 15 m high, faced in coursed stone. Registered in 2008.
Built in 1957 on the upper Higashi Karasu River, the newest of the 15 Arakawa sabo dams: 67 m long, diagonal masonry, unbroken wing slopes. Registered 2008.
Completed in 1930, this 176-square-metre earthen brewing hall in Nihonmatsu, Fukushima carries a Western king-post truss that leaves its upper floor free of columns.
Built about 1930 at the east of this Aizuwakamatsu merchant compound, the detached wing looks onto the garden through a glazed veranda and changes finish by floor.
An early Showa plank-walled granary in the corner of the Heishi estate, Fukushima City: posts 45 cm apart, four compartments, and doors made by removing a post.
A 1945 tea house on the Matsumoto estate in Iwaki, Fukushima: an eight-mat reception room, a six-mat tea room with a sunken hearth and a pantry, named Ichitarō-an.
A 1945 hip-roofed study joined to the tea house on the Matsumoto estate in Iwaki, Fukushima: a ten-mat Western room with built-in shelves, by a Hachiōji carpenter.