Shōwa
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A 1949 kettle house at Goto Textile Mill in Kiryu, rebuilt after wartime removal, where a brick furnace with five firing mouths still holds its iron kettles.
A 1933 reinforced-concrete tower at Goto Textile Mill in Kiryu, 5.7 metres tall, whose tank held well water pumped by the factory motor for dyeing silk.
A timber weaving shed built in 1948 after wartime requisition at Goto Textile Mill, Kiryu. Sawtooth bays were added in 1949 and 1950 as weaving resumed.
A 1936 single-storey store behind the factory at Goto Textile Mill in Kiryu, one open room built to hold the punched jacquard cards for its obi designs.
The Kobayashi Family Residence Stone Wall in Kiryu, Gunma, is an 82-metre cobble flood wall of about 1953, built after typhoon floods to guard a silk mill and house.
The Kobayashi Family Residence Factory in Kiryu, Gunma, built in 1948, joins four gabled sheds instead of a sawtooth roof. Kotake Textile wove fukuro-obi here.
The Kobayashi Family Residence Main House in Kiryu, Gunma, dates to about 1931. Its earth floor opens into the mill, and obi were shown to buyers in its best rooms.
Warehouse No. 1 at the Kobayashi Family Residence in Kiryu, Gunma, is a 1961 concrete-block yarn store with a well and sink that served both the mill and the house.
Warehouse No. 2 at the Kobayashi Family Residence in Kiryu, Gunma, is a 1962 concrete-block store on the stone wall by the gate that held punched loom cards.
The Kobayashi Family Residence Fence in Kiryu, Gunma, is a 49-metre open board fence of about 1953 on a cobble flood wall, giving a silk mill the look of a home.
The Komi Family Residence (Mizumuraen) Retirement House is a 1927 timber house with upstairs retirement rooms at a Takasaki tea shop, registered in 2000.
The Komoda Family Residence Storehouse in Isesaki, Gunma, is a 1927 earthen kura with a king post truss roof, steel sashes of wired glass and an attached miso room.
Timber station building of 1928 at Ogo on the Jomo Electric Railway in Maebashi, Gunma, clad in clapboard and plaster, still in use as the station today.
Steel power-receiving tower of 1928 at the Ogo substation of the Jomo Electric Railway in Maebashi, Gunma: a chair-shaped tower that receives power from the grid.
Steel relay tower of 1928 at the Ogo substation of the Jomo Electric Railway in Maebashi, Gunma: a portal tower that relays the busbar and branch line.
Timber train depot of 1928 at Ogo on the Jomo Electric Railway, Gunma, two tall gabled bays on king-post trusses; among Japan's earliest, open for booked tours.
Steel dead-end tower of 1928 at the Ogo substation of the Jomo Electric Railway in Maebashi, Gunma: a column-like tower that anchors the end of the busbar.
Steel lightning-arrester tower of 1928 at the Ogo substation of the Jomo Electric Railway in Maebashi, Gunma: a trussed tower that supports the arrester branch line.
Concrete substation of 1928 at Ogo on the Jomo Electric Railway, Gunma, extended in 1943 as a wartime refuge for the head office and still in use today.
Steel four-span railway bridge of 1928 over the Kasu River in Maebashi, Gunma, on the Jomo line; piers rebuilt after a 1947 typhoon, girders still original.