Shōwa

Kawai Kanjiro designed this 1937 Kyoto house himself: a hipped, gable-entry timber home with a lattice front and a double-height hall around an irori hearth.

Kawai Kanjiro's wheel room of about 1929, older than his house: an earth-floored room and a board floor split into chair and sitting levels, the wheel on the higher.

A small early Showa brick kiln beside Kawai Kanjiro's studio, 1.8 m deep, used to bisque fire pots before the climbing kiln; said to be built to his design.

House and clinic of 1936 on Fuyacho-dori in central Kyoto: a three-storey timber building with French tiles, a round corner tower and a half-timbered stair hall.

A 1936 concrete institute facing Kyoto University, registered in 1998, designed from an outline by Perret's pupil Mestrallet and still home to the French institute.

The 1936 reinforced-concrete gate of Gion Kobu Kaburenjo on Hanamikoji, with a hipped copper-tile roof framing the approach to the theater. Where to see it and when.

Completed in 1944 by Kitamura Sutejiro, this Kyoto gatehouse uses slim round logs, a low pan-tiled gable roof and a ceiling of dense bamboo over sparse log rafters.

Designed by Yoshida Isoya in 1963, this concrete modern sukiya house has flat ceilings with built-in lighting and shoji running the full height of the rooms.

Built in 1944 by Kitamura Sutejiro, this entrance hall has stepping stones indoors, a nijiriguchi with a round hearth, and a Western-style waiting room for tea.

At the back of a Kyoto tea garden, this 1944 tea house by Kitamura Sutejiro pairs the small room Chinsanren and its companion seat with a quiet large room.

Built in 1944 by Kitamura Sutejiro, this Kyoto corridor of diagonal tiles bends on its way to a tea room, ending at a waiting bench with noble and companion seats.

The Former Ueda Family Residence Middle Gate and Wall in Muko, Kyoto, date from about 1942: a 1-meter ridge-beam gate and 27 meters of tiled wall around a garden.

The Former Ueda Family Residence Annex in Muko, Kyoto, is a two-story guest wing from about 1942, with linked tatami rooms and a tropical hardwood alcove post.

A white-plastered two-storey storehouse in the Ueno family compound in Maizuru, raised on cut stone with stone steps. Sources date it to the 1880s or to 1945–1954.

Raised in 1939 by master carpenter Kanamori Mitsugu, this Yamashina house hides its rafters under lime plaster and stacks small roofs like a castle. Interior closed.

Built about 1936, the earliest dated building on the Onogi estate in Yamashina, Kyoto: a traditional storehouse fitted with an iron door and trowel-shaped brackets.

A 9.9-square-meter hall for the goma fire ritual, built about 1939 between two storehouses on the Onogi estate in Yamashina, Kyoto, with a smoke vent in its ceiling.

A 1.6-meter tea-style gate on knotted log posts and 60 meters of tiled walls divide the front of the Onogi estate in Yamashina, Kyoto, from its inner garden.

Completed in 1941, this storehouse closes the south end of the storehouse row on the Onogi estate in Yamashina, Kyoto, and has hooded windows on two of its walls.

Built in 1939, the largest of 4 storehouses on the Onogi estate in Yamashina, Kyoto, and the only one roofed in round tiles, with boarded and plastered floors.