Shōwa
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An early Showa koji room at Koeigiku Sake Brewery in Ogi, Saga, faced in brick to 3 metres over a timber frame, set on a stone watercourse, under a king post truss.
A 1930 starter house at Koeigiku Sake Brewery in Ogi, Saga, with floor-level windows in every bay of its north and east walls and a half-hipped gable. Listed 2021.
Koyanagi Sake Brewery Chimney, Ogi, Saga: a square English-bond brick stack of 1941, the tallest thing on the site, with two conflicting heights in the source.
Koyanagi Sake Brewery Kettle Room, Ogi, Saga: a 1928 steaming house of 96 square metres whose monitor roof and exposed king-post truss came straight from the work.
Koyanagi Sake Brewery Inspection Room, Ogi, Saga: a 1930 hut of 20 square metres glazed on three sides, built for liquor tax inspection rather than for brewing.
Koyanagi Sake Brewery Koji Room, Ogi, Saga: a 1928 building of 67 square metres, timber-boarded on three sides with one brick gable where the heat had to be held.
Koyanagi Sake Brewery Showa West Storehouse, Ogi, Saga: a 1928 store of 431 square metres, 34 metres long, now part distillery. Brickwork, boarding and visiting.
Koyanagi Sake Brewery Showa East Storehouse, Ogi, Saga: a 1928 store of 112 square metres sharing its west wall, boarded to face the watercourse in western manner.
Koyanagi Sake Brewery West Water Tank, Ogi, Saga: a brick cistern of 1941 lifted on piers to 4.5 metres, holding water for steaming and washing by gravity.
Koyanagi Sake Brewery East Water Tank, Ogi, Saga: at 4 square metres the smallest listed structure here, its brick vessel carried on an arcade of six piers.
Koyanagi Sake Brewery Bottling House, Ogi, Saga: a plain 1928 shed of 77 square metres whose doubled beams clear a 9-metre floor for the final stage of brewing.
A brick shed of 5.3 square metres at Koyanagi Sake Brewery in Ogi, Saga. Built in 1928 with slag-brick walls, a segmental arch and a flat roof; registered in 2002.
A roofed workspace of 1928 spanning the gap between the koji room and the west kura at Koyanagi Sake Brewery in Ogi, Saga. Named for its job, registered in 2002.
Saito Shoten Store and Main House in Ogi, Saga: the c.1927 townhouse of a sugar merchant supplying yokan makers, with a tall trussed roof and an early show window.
An early Showa retirement house in Honjo-machi, Saga City, with an eight-mat formal room, glazed verandas and fine kumiko latticework. Registered nationally in 2022.
Joranjuku Guest House (Ganshokaku) in Takeo, Saga: a wooden guest house of c.1943 attributed to Endo Arata, with a Western room, Japanese rooms and Mifune murals.
Joranjuku School Building and Dormitory in Takeo, Saga: an L-shaped wooden classroom wing and dormitory meeting at Wright-style tuff piers, attributed to Endo Arata.
The Lutheran church of 1938 in Ogi, Saga, a small gabled timber church by the Vories office, is loved for the sanctuary that curves out from its rear gable wall.
Villa of 1938 on the shore of Karatsu Bay, Saga, with crossing hip-and-gable roofs and a mezzanine room facing the sea; now a guest room of the Mizuno Ryokan.
An early Showa brick and timber koji room at Yano Sake Brewery in Kashima, Saga, the newest of seven listed buildings, with an anteroom and mortar-lined walls.