Shōwa

A working sake brewery building at Yokote in Akita, registered in 2011. A mud-walled ginjo house, and a stone moto room in Innai tuff, still brewing Amanoto.

A 1953 timber gym in Yurihonjo, Akita, registered in 2012. White posts climb its gray east gable, a ridge tablet names its builders, and it is now a toy playground.

A 1953 wooden classroom wing in Yurihonjo, Akita, registered in 2012. Its 62.78 m corridor runs from library to music room and now leads to wooden toy play rooms.

A 1953 wooden school office wing in Yurihonjo, Akita, registered in 2012. It held the principal's office and a guest entrance, and is now a free zone with a café.

A 1954 wooden classroom wing in Yurihonjo, Akita, registered in 2012. Last of the four to be built, it keeps a tatami etiquette room and two old classrooms.

This 1969 model farmhouse in Ogata Village, Akita, was built for prospective settlers of the Hachirogata reclaimed land; its big triangular roof marks the landscape.

Completed in 1928 beside the main house, this compact wing sets two Western rooms and two Japanese rooms across a central corridor, behind ochre roughcast walls.

The North Fermentation Storehouse at Kunibanzai Shuzo, Akita's last working brewery, is an early Showa earthen vault whose decorated doors echo its older neighbours.

The smallest building at Kunibanzai Shuzo, this early-Showa koji room grows the mould that starts each batch of sake, its plaster walls capped by English-bond brick.

An early Showa workshop in Yurihonjo, Akita, where a timber truss roof clears a tall column-free room for the cauldron and tub that steam the brewing rice.

An earthen storehouse in Yurihonjo, Akita, converted into the brewery's office in the early Showa era and roofed, uniquely on this site, in sheet iron.

The largest of the eleven registered buildings in Yurihonjo, Akita, this early Showa storehouse lies along the slope, its ridge north to south, holding sake tanks.

An early Showa storehouse in Yurihonjo, Akita, sheltered with the middle storehouse inside one plain boarded shed that keeps driven snow off the earthen walls.

A tall 1949 end-gabled house in Masuda, Yokote, with a traditional white plaster gable framed in beams and posts, and a tall earthen passage lit by high windows.

Shinmei Shrine Ryobu Torii in Yurihonjo, Akita, is a timber gate braced by auxiliary posts, dated to 1842 by city sources and to early Showa by the national list.

Suzuki Sake Brewery's 1965 brewing storehouse in Daisen, Akita, sets a king post truss roof on a traditional nuki-braced frame; the youngest of its seven buildings.

The Sekita divider in Misato, Akita, a concrete ring of 1938 at the head of the Rokugo fan, splits irrigation water ten ways through 180 holes, an early example.

Tenshikan, the former Seien Maria-en of 1932 in Kosaka, Akita, was a kindergarten for the families of Kosaka Mine workers, a timber building in plain Western style.

This Protestant church of 1949 in Jumonji, Yokote, Akita, has a bell tower on its gabled front and a worship space without columns, a landmark in the town centre.

The main building of the Towada Hotel, built in 1938 above Lake Towada in Kosaka, Akita, is a three-storey timber hotel clad in Akita cedar, a fine large building.