Shōwa
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A 1935 timber yakuimon gate in Konan, Kochi, reached by dog-leg steps from the road and turning a gently curved gable to the street as part of the estate's front.
A 1935 retaining wall of great natural boulders in Konan, Kochi, 25 metres long and capped in concrete, whose east end forms a balustrade with a spiral design.
A two-storey 1935 house in Konan, Kochi, built as three wings joined at right angles in the local tombo-zukuri manner. Registered in 2002; the interior is not open.
A tiny 1935 reinforced concrete bathhouse in Konan, Kochi, 2.2 by 4 metres, its decorated parapet echoing the estate's stone wall. An early concrete house in Kochi.
Shogakuji Temple Stone Wall in Nahari, Kochi: a 1930 ishiguro windbreak against sea gales, of rounded stones 31 m long, 1.5 m high and 1 m thick, registered in 2003.
Shogakuji Temple Main Hall in Nahari, Kochi: a 1930 wooden hall, 4 by 4 bays, with a steep pyramidal roof and front porch, now the outer hall. Registered in 2003.
A 1927 kitchen and servants' wing at a doctor's home in Geisei, Kochi, with three staff rooms, a stepped tiled roof, a vent cap over the stove and slatted windows.
A two-story 1927 earthen storehouse at the northwest corner of a doctor's home in Geisei, Kochi, its north wall banded with three tiers of rain-shedding tiles.
A 1927 weatherboarded clinic and home in Geisei, Kochi, with a clipped hipped roof, gable brackets and separate doors for family and patients. Registered in 1999.
A 1927 tiled gatehouse facing the road in Geisei, Kochi, leading to a doctor's family door, with a roofed wall north and a concrete wall to the clinic gate. 1999.
Steel road bridge of 1928 near where the Yusuhara meets the Shimanto River in Kochi: 3 Warren trusses, 138 metres long, with granite end posts in geometric ornament.
Takaiwa Bridge in Ino, Kochi: a 1928 reinforced-concrete girder bridge, 64 m long in 7 spans, whose pierced piers and matching parapets give it a single design.
Wooden shop-house of 1933 in Yasuda, Kochi, with a front shop on an earth floor, rooms behind and above, and drip tiles over its front pent roof, a local feature.
A two-storey guest building of about 1953 at the back of a merchant's plot in Yasuda, Kochi, its tall plastered gable banded with rows of Tosa-style drip tiles.
An early Showa concrete gate in Yasuda, Kochi: 2 capped square posts set back from the road, with wing walls curving forward in arcs to meet the street wall.
An early Showa shed on the Hatanaka estate in Aki, Kochi, 9.5 metres long, holding a brick-lined bath, firewood store and miso room; the only Showa building there.
Wall of about 1934 at a landowner's compound in Nahari, Kochi: beach stones laid in concrete, 24 m long and 1.9 m high, with cement-brick corners and coping.
Kitchen and bath wing of 1934 attached to the main house of a landowner's compound in Nahari, Kochi, with a maid's room, earth floor and open-sided well area.
Small 1934 building for handling rice in a landowner's compound in Nahari, Kochi, linked to the main house by a corridor, with a hip-and-gable roof; registered 2004.
1934 single-storey house at the heart of a landowner's compound in Nahari, Kochi, with a hip-and-gable roof, latticed gables and a corner parlor; registered 2004.