Shōwa
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The Service Gate at Seishikan in Inagawa, Hyogo, is a 1934 everyday gate 4.2 m wide between the main house and tool shed, its ridge tucked under the house eaves.
The 1934 Water Tower at Seishikan in Inagawa, Hyogo, pumped well water to a raised tank that fed flush toilets. It was registered as hard to reproduce, unique here.
The Brushwood Room at Seishikan in Inagawa, Hyogo, is a 1934 woodshed on the forecourt, finished in red bengara and yellow plaster to match the Front Gate.
The thatched 1934 main house of Seishikan in Inagawa, Hyogo, hides a truss frame under its roof and adds a reception wing and flush guest toilet. Free to visit.
Tomita Kumasaku's 1934 study at Seishikan, Inagawa, Hyogo, is a plastered storehouse with tatami over an iron floor heated from a fire chamber below, ondol-style.
The Charcoal Room at Seishikan in Inagawa, Hyogo, is a small 1934 shed with mokko crest-shaped high windows and a tiled canopy running on from the Tool Room.
The 1934 tea room at Seishikan in Inagawa, Hyogo, pairs a four-and-a-half-mat room with a tiled chair-seated tea area and glazed windows. Rentable and often open.
The Tool Room at Seishikan in Inagawa, Hyogo, is a 1934 red and yellow shed with crest-shaped high windows, a stepped-roof toilet bay and a shared canopy.
The Earthen Wall at Seishikan in Inagawa, Hyogo, is a 1934 tiled clay wall running about 98 m on a tall stone base around the estate, with a back door and back gate.
The 1934 attendants' shelter at Seishikan in Inagawa, Hyogo, sets posts on low concrete walls under a curved beam, corrugated roof and bamboo ceiling. 4.2 m².
The Middle Storehouse at Seishikan in Inagawa, Hyogo, is a 1934 two-story plastered store on a high vented stone plinth, the center of three behind the water tower.
The Garden Wall at Seishikan in Inagawa, Hyogo, is a 13 m tiled wall of 1934 between forecourt and inner garden, boarded on one face and cedar bark on the other.
The Guardhouse at Seishikan in Inagawa, Hyogo, is a 1934 watchman's lodge at the entrance path, with a gently curved tile roof, two small rooms and a veranda.
The Miso Room at Seishikan in Inagawa, Hyogo, is a 1934 plastered storehouse of 11 m² whose red bengara door and bracketed canopy tie it to the sheds beside it.
The Somatani Sabo Dam in Nada, Kobe, completed in 1956, is a gravity concrete erosion-control dam with a slit in its spillway, said to be the first of its type.
At the property's western edge stands this sukiya-style gate: round-log posts, three-tier framed doors and a cedar-bark roof over wooden shingles, worked with care.
This small plastered storehouse east of the Japanese wing has a honshogawara tile roof and upper eaves sealed in white lime, a quiet record of a Hanshin garden suburb.
Completed in 1928 in Takarazuka's Hanayashiki garden suburb, this registered house pairs a varied hipped-and-gabled silhouette with Art Deco and Secession interiors.
Added to the Western house in 1954, this Japanese wing has an eight-mat room with a polished-log alcove post and a corridor under an arched boat-bottom ceiling.
The former Matsumoto residence in Takarazuka, Hyogo, built in 1937 to a design by Kawasaki Shinobu, is a Western-style house with an S-tile roof and a bay window.