Shōwa

Kenkun Shrine Grand Torii, a 7.2 m myojin gateway of unpainted Taiwan cypress built in 1934, marks the east entrance to Nobunaga's shrine on Kyoto's Mount Funaoka.

Kenkun Shrine Office, built in 1929 on Kyoto's Mount Funaoka, pairs a tiled roof with a shingled entrance canopy and tall openings. It is still the shrine office.

Tofukuji Temple Main Hall in Kyoto, completed in 1934, is an 809-square-metre Zen hall with a mokoshi roof, three-stepped brackets and Domoto Insho's ceiling dragon.

Tondaya Annex is a 1935 guest wing at a Nishijin merchant house, with a reception room for Noh and the Rakuju tea room named by a tea master, used for booked tea.

Tondaya Treasure Storehouse is a two-storey earthen storehouse built in 1935 at a Nishijin merchant house, its door bearing the shop name inside and hozo above.

The Tea House of the Nakano Family Residence in Nagaokakyo, Kyoto, built in 1951, is a four-and-a-half-mat room named Koan with a lit four-panel woven ceiling.

The early Showa gate of a Yawata villa is just 2.1 metres wide, yet packs a bowed roof, adze-finished posts and a slatted transom into it. Registered in 2012.

Anglican church of 1930 by Bergamini in Nakagyo, Kyoto: a half-timbered Japanese-style building with a kindergarten below and a chapel under curved trusses above.

Ninnaji Temple Treasure Museum, a 1927 concrete building whose walls copy an azekura storehouse, opens three times a year. Its design, door guardians and visits.

A freestanding tea room of about 1935 behind a Nishijin townhouse in Kyoto, its four-and-a-half-mat plan and woven and sloping ceilings echo Urasenke's Yuin room.

A light sukiya-style gate and fence of about 1935 on a Nishijin townhouse in Kyoto: knobbed log posts, battened boards, cedar bark and a single line of tiles.

A 1932 concrete bathhouse in northern Kyoto reuses stone railings from the demolished Kikusui Bridge, with majolica tile walls and circular clerestory windows.

The Heian Jogakuin Showakan is a 1929 steel-reinforced concrete school in Kyoto by J. V. W. Bergamini and Naito Tachu, with pointed arches and brick-tiled walls.

Behind Kyoto's Heian Jingu sanctuary runs the inner corridor, a 1940 vermilion cloister on a stone platform with latticed windows and round pillars.

The great torii of Kyoto's Heian Jingu, raised in 1928 in reinforced concrete, stands about 24 meters tall. Once Japan's largest, it anchors the Okazaki district.

On the west of Heian Jingu's south court stands the 1940 Gakuden, a rest-and-assembly hall modeled on an ancient palace hall, with board doors and lattice shutters.

On the east of Heian Jingu's south court, the 1940 Kaguraden sits on a stone platform, open on three sides, hosting sacred dance and Shinto weddings.

Outside Heian Jingu's east corridor, the 1940 Saikan is a refined modern Japanese hall with a karahafu gabled entrance and finely coffered ceilings.

Extending east and west from Heian Jingu's main gate, the 1940 Shinmon Yokuro adds tatami rooms and vermilion woodwork under tiled roofs, shaping the shrine's front.

Behind Heian Jingu's sanctuary, a see-through fence and small rear gate close off the rear precinct. Built in 1940 by Sunami Takashi and Tani Shigeo, it runs 90 meters.