Shōwa

A 4-meter-square, 2-storey storehouse of 1939 at the corner of the garden behind the Onogi main house in Yamashina, Kyoto, with stepped plaster doors facing south.

This 1939 shed on the Onogi estate in Yamashina, Kyoto, doubled as a waiting bench, with namako tile and lime plaster on the faces guests saw on their way in.

Completed in 1934 in the light sukiya taste, this single-story parlor is a quieter counterpart to the Kataoka family's formal shoin guest hall of the Taisho years.

Completed in 1928 as Kyoto's police headquarters, this concrete block pairs a flat tiled exterior with arches and stained glass at its entrance. Registered 2024.

A timber village office of 1929 at Kuchiono in Kyotango, built after the Kita-Tango earthquake, its walls ranged with band courses. Registered in 1999.

A small bank of 1927 facing Shichijo-dori in Kyoto, with tall arched windows, stone quoins and a Lombard band along the top of the wall. Registered in 2017.

The main house of Kyutei Omuro, a 1937 sukiya villa on Narabigaoka's slope in Kyoto. A Mount Fuji transom crowns rooms whose karin table mirrors the garden.

Soan, the freestanding tea house of Kyutei Omuro near Narabigaoka in Kyoto. This four-and-a-half-mat room opens its north wall to frame the town and the hills.

The storehouse of Kyutei Omuro stands at the northwest corner of this 1937 Kyoto villa, a plastered kura registered for how it shapes the historic scene.

West of the tea house in Kyutei Omuro's garden stands the machiai, a waiting arbor of just 4.8 m², packed with design from copper roof to round window.

A tiled wall traces the edges of Kyutei Omuro, a gabled gate set into it. The adzed door and boat-shaped brackets carry the villa's refinement to its boundary.

A 1935 Kyoto merchant house registered in 2021. It keeps the omoya-zukuri plan but gives the shopfront a Western face, with an earth floor and a corridor behind.

Registered in 2021, this 28-square-metre building of 1935 stands at the back of a Kyoto dyer's plot, with a goods store below and a staff rest room above.

Bathhouse of 1930 on Kuramaguchi-dori in Kyoto, with a karahafu entrance and decorative tiles inside and out, now the café Sarasa Nishijin, its old layout intact.

North building of the Kyoto Art Center, the 1931 north wing of Meirin school, with ramps in a quarter-round tower and window canopies; now studios and a gallery.

Main gate and wall of 1931 at the Kyoto Art Center on Muromachi-dori: Secession-style octagonal piers with domed tops, matched by the side gates and wall posts.

West building of the Kyoto Art Center, the 1931 main block of Meirin school, with Spanish tiles, a balcony, a coffered 78-mat great hall and the old auditorium.

South building of the Kyoto Art Center, the 1931 south wing of Meirin school, with an arched entrance, a tower, three round windows and a fourth-floor tea room.

The north information board of the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, built in about 1933, has posts tiled like the main building under a small gabled copper roof.

The north gate of the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, built in about 1933, repeats the granite-faced octagonal posts of the main gates on the north side of the site.