Shōwa

A 1950 storehouse in Chihayaakasaka, Osaka's only village, fitted with tatami rooms and a run of sliding glass doors upstairs. Registered 2007. Privately owned.

The Asano Family Residence Tatsumi Storehouse, built in 1935 in the southeast corner of the Asano estate in Yao, Osaka, has a round gable window under a curved hood.

The Asano Family Residence East Barn in Yao, Osaka, built around 1935, runs along the east edge of the estate; its west eave continues to the storehouse door.

The Asano Family Residence South Barn in Yao, Osaka, built around 1935, is the smallest of the five registered buildings, with earthen walls and a glazed gable.

The left wing of the Arai Family Residence, built in 1932: a 15-mat zashiki with a raised jodan, a 10-mat antechamber, tall openings and carved ranma transoms.

A large earthen storehouse of 1932 at the Arai Family Residence, linked to the main house by a corridor, with a gabled hongawara roof and namako-kabe tile cladding.

The central wing of the Arai Family Residence, built in 1932 with a temple-style hongawara roof and a 22.5-mat zashiki ringed by a tatami corridor facing the garden.

The living wing of the Arai Family Residence, built in 1932, the largest of its six registered structures, planned around a courtyard and a 21-mat guest kitchen.

The 1932 earthen wall on the west side of the Arai Family Residence: cut-stone base, white lime plaster and tiled coping, running 130 meters either side of the gate.

The 1932 front gate of the Arai Family Residence, a large yakuimon set back from a bending lane, with wing walls, heavy timbers and a hongawara tile roof.

Built in 1942, the Aritoshi Shrine Rear Gate and East and West Openwork Fences enclose the main hall and record how the precincts were replanned after the move.

Built new in 1942 for the relocated precincts, the Aritoshi Shrine Open Corridor in Izumisano runs eleven open bays along a stone wall to the main hall.

Rebuilt in 1940 and moved two years later, the Aritoshi Shrine South Purification Pavilion in Izumisano shelters a large stone basin inscribed with 1694.

The Ikoma Clock Shop (Ikoma Building) in Hiranomachi, Osaka, completed in 1930 and designed by the master Kansai architect Sou Hyozo, is a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property. Its rooftop clock tower and pendulum-inspired vertical bay windows and round window, scratch-tile and terracotta Art Deco facade, granite eagle sculptures, and Italian-marble staircase make it one of central Osaka's finest early Showa-era commercial buildings — and it remains in operation as a clock and jewelry shop, just two minutes' walk from Kitahama Station.

An early Showa storehouse in Fukae, Osaka, on level ground beside the raised storehouse, its attached walls closing the edge of the old compound. Registered 2023.

A 1960 two-storey Ema Hall at the shrine entrance that doubles as a gate, with a sword and arrow on its ridge and guardian statues among the votive plaques.

A 26-meter copper-roofed openwork fence of about 1931 that runs back from the worship hall, flanks the main hall and stops at its stone base; registered in 2025.

A T-shaped 1931 worship hall and offering hall at Ishikiri Tsurugiya Shrine, a curved porch gable under a triangular gable, the rear roof tucked under the main hall.

A 1931 sanken-sha nagare-zukuri main hall on a tall stone platform in Higashiosaka, with tortoiseshell rain guards on its gables and Daibutsuyo-style beam ends.

A 1937 waiting shelter in the outer roji of the Kuboso Memorial Museum of Art tea compound, where guests sat before Chosentei, copying the Omotesenke layout.