Shōwa
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The Tahoto Pagoda of Kosanji Temple in Setoda, Onomichi, was built in 1942 west of the Main Hall, square below and round above, set at an angle to the axis.
The Middle Gate of Kosanji Temple in Setoda, Onomichi, is a two-storey gate of 1939 modelled on Horyuji, four bays wide and with no stairs to its upper level.
Choseikaku of Kosanji Temple in Setoda, Onomichi, is the house the founder built for his mother, joining a concrete Western wing to a single-storey Japanese one.
The Octagonal Hall of Kosanji Temple in Setoda, Onomichi, dates from 1942 and stands east of the Main Hall, halving the scale of the Yumedono at Horyuji.
The Buddha Treasure House of Kosanji Temple in Setoda, Onomichi, was built in 1938, the first of the halls here, and is plain where the later ones are not.
The Dharma Treasure House of Kosanji Temple in Setoda, Onomichi, was built in 1941 on the middle terrace, facing Sohozo across the five-storied pagoda.
The Main Hall of Kosanji Temple in Setoda, Onomichi, was built in 1941 on the model of the Phoenix Hall at Byodoin, with wing corridors and a tail corridor behind.
The Arhat Hall of Kosanji Temple in Setoda, Onomichi, dates from 1939 and runs east and west from the Middle Gate as a corridor, seventeen bays on each side.
Built around 1953 for the village's war dead, this small copper-roofed nagare shrine faces the approach, its doors and carved struts bearing chrysanthemum crests.
Built in 1940 to enclose a 1907 main hall, this tiled bracket-arm gate and 78-metre white plaster wall with vertical lattice give the hilltop sanctuary its boundary.
Local sake brewers brought this deity from Kyoto's Matsuo Taisha. Their tiny 1929 shrine of 3.5 square metres keeps full detail: tapered posts and curved beams.
A 1937 half-through steel arch bridge over Lake Shinryu in the Taishakukyo gorge, Hiroshima, registered in 2011, built for a sightseeing road with a light design.
The Sanada Family Residence Inner Room is a 1928 reception wing in Mihara, whose great room turns its alcove shelves round a corner and uses prized timber.
The Sanada Family Residence Front Gate is a 1928 yakuimon on Mihara's old Sanyo Road, with a copper gable roof, frog-leg strut and slatted transom above its doors.
The Sanada Family Residence Guest Room is a 1928 guest house in Mihara with a parquet-floored Western parlor below and tatami rooms and a railed veranda above.
The Sanada Family Residence Tea House is a small 1928 tea room in Mihara, linked to the reception wing, with a six-mat room, crawl-in door and varied roofs.
The Sanada Family Residence Storehouse in Mihara joins a two-storey earthen store and a three-storey brick store under a single coat of white lime plaster.
This small early-Showa tea room off the annex covers just 10 square meters. Its two-mat space opens south and west to the garden, admitting light in a modern spirit.
This early-Showa gate and wall guard the site's east front. A single-bay armgate meets a 13-meter wall, both in fine zelkova, lending the boundary a quiet dignity.
Built in 1930 as the Jōge Police Station, this timber building in Fuchū City reproduces the look of reinforced concrete, with a tower rising over its entrance porch.