Shōwa

A 1952 screen wall of Minatogawa limestone before the main house of the Yagi homestead in Oton, Yaese: five courses of near-3 m blocks, 1.6 m high, 3.6 m long.

Nzatu Muraya, Misato's 1954 timber hall in Okinawa City: a rare hip-and-gable roof, amahaji eave posts, an open meeting-room plan and how to view it from the street.

House of 1941 in Kuji, Iwate, designed by the Vories office for the missionary Thomasine Allen, with a fireplace guest room, built-in kitchen fittings and a balcony.

Reinforced-concrete public hall of 1927 in Morioka with a six-stage tower and scratch-tile walls, built with an assembly chamber and main hall; still in use.

Built in 1931 to mark a father's seventieth birthday, this Takano parlor in Mizusawa has a carved hawk-and-pine transom and a garden veranda, linked to Choei's residence.

Built around 1941 on the Takano grounds in Mizusawa, this guest wing is prized for delicate kumiko glass screens and a coved plaster ceiling, linked to the Kokian.

Named for the pen name of scholar Takano Choei, this tiny 1932 earthen-walled library in Mizusawa has a copper door and iron grilles to guard his legacy.

A plank-walled storehouse of about 1929 in Kanegasaki, Iwate, its boards dropped into grooved posts without nails. Moved by hikiya in 1995 and registered in 2018.

Built in 1930 in Kanegasaki, Iwate, this two-story wooden house pairs a ten-mat zashiki and veranda with mortar walling and a round window. Registered 2018.

An early Showa timber grain store at a Ninohe merchant house, Iwate, in white plaster with iron doors, board-lined inside under a trussed roof. Registered 2009.

An early Showa warehouse at a Ninohe merchant house, Iwate, faced in washed artificial stone with three iron doors upstairs, beside the old shop. Registered 2009.

The Count Goto Memorial Community Hall in Oshu, Iwate, built in 1941 to honour Goto Shinpei, is held to be Japan's first community hall, with a half-timbered gable.

A 1929 timber church in Ichinoseki, Iwate, built with help from North American Presbyterian missionaries, with a corner spire and trefoil arches. Registered 2007.

Bandaikan in Ichinohe, Iwate, a timber cinema of 1956 on a business founded in 1909, is a fine example of the picture houses built before rapid growth.

A 10-square-meter 1934 valve house at Morioka's Yonai plant, trimmed in Oya stone at its base, corners, openings and eaves. Registered 1999; seen in cherry season.

A three-chamber concrete basin of 1934 where Yonai River water first entered Morioka's waterworks to be metered. Registered in 1999; grounds open in cherry season.

Twin square settling pools of 1934, 54 by 27 meters, with brick-lined walls and stone coping at Morioka's first waterworks. Registered 1999; open in cherry season.

A 90-by-37-meter slow sand filter of 1934 in Morioka, split into three beds with a small stone-trimmed valve house on each. Still in use; open in the cherry season.

The westernmost valve house of 1934 at Morioka's Yonai plant, the first building seen on the right inside the gate opposite Kami-Yonai Station. Registered in 1999.

An octagonal 1934 well house by the gate of Morioka's Yonai plant, one storey made to look like two, with Oya stone buttresses, band courses and round upper windows.