Shōwa
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Sukiya annex of 1936 by Hirata Masaya, moved from an Osaka villa to Ikenoura Park on Shimokamagari island in Kure, Hiroshima; noted for its veranda and tea room.
Shorinbo's 1934 Onari-no-ma in Miyoshi, Hiroshima, is a three-room guest wing with an alcove-fitted principal room and its own bath and toilet. Registered in 2011.
Shorinbo's 1934 guest hall in Miyoshi, Hiroshima, has a karahafu porch and a 17-and-a-half-mat audience room. Listed in 2011 as a model modern Shin audience hall.
Timber photo studio of 1928 in Kisa, Miyoshi, Hiroshima, by a local master carpenter, with a columned porch and paired windows shaped like a Kaiser moustache.
A 327-metre irrigation tunnel in Higashihiroshima, begun by one villager in 1927 and finished by the whole village around 1930, registered in 2000 and still in use.
Early-Showa Western-style clinic in Mihara, Hiroshima, with aligned windows and an arched window over the door; now a museum of the engraver Shimizu Nanzan.
An early Showa thatched teahouse with a waiting bench at the Nobuoka compound in Fukuyama, attributed to the head of the Hayami school and moved here around 1955.
An early Showa brewing storehouse at Hakubotan's Tenpogura in Saijo, 24 by 13 meters under red tiles, its ridge posts carrying an octagonal beam; registered 2017.
The rice storehouse of the Hino Residence in Aki-Takata, Hiroshima, built around 1927. A two-storey plaster kura facing the river, it once adjoined a rice-milling shed.
The Western-style annexe of the Hino Residence in Aki-Takata, Hiroshima, built in 1936, with offices below and a meeting room above. Paper roller blinds survive inside.
Concrete auditorium of 1927 in Hiroshima, built for the prewar Hiroshima High School in Romanesque Revival style; an A-bombed building still used by the school.
Built in 1948 and registered in 2014, Fukusenbo Hondo in Hiroshima omits railing and columns from its outer sanctuary and carries carved dragons across seven bays.
An early Showa single-storey brewery hall in the north-east corner of Fukubijin's Ebisu-gura in Saijo, Hiroshima, with a king-post truss and high windows for tanks.
An early Showa brewery building behind the No. 1 Storehouse at Fukubijin's Ebisu-gura in Saijo, Hiroshima, extended in stages: a 26-metre wing and an 11-metre wing.
An early Showa bottling hall at Fukubijin's Ebisu-gura in Saijo, Hiroshima, plastered like a storehouse but lined with windows, with a flat ceiling for clean work.
An early Showa earthen sake storehouse at Fukubijin's Daikoku-gura compound in Saijo, Hiroshima, roofed on a king-post truss with plaster-coated window lattices.
A two-storey 1930s Western-style house by Fukuyama Castle, with a steep tiled gable, mortar walls and arched window ornament; registered 1997, now a garden café.
A two-storey inner storehouse joined to the main building of Fukuju Hall, 9.9 by 6.0 metres, with white plaster, two bands of namako tiling and a swelling roof.
A 1940 tea wing by Kyoto carpenter Usui Kaichiro, joined to the main building of Fukuju Hall, with a 10-mat room, two small tea rooms and a boat-bottom ceiling.
A small two-storey storehouse behind the main building of Fukuju Hall, 6.9 by 3.9 metres, with namako walls and an earth-floored ground level by the kitchen.