Shōwa

The Satake Glass Main House in Izumi, Osaka, is a 1941 townhouse: white plaster and lattice below, black plaster with patterned mushiko-mado windows above.

The Satake Glass Mixing Factory in Izumi, Osaka, where glass batches were blended, once also housed staff. Plaster and weatherboard wings share a vent roof.

The Satake Glass Shrine, a tiny early Showa guardian shrine at an Izumi glassworks, sits on a stone plinth under a copper roof, with a curved beam and carved strut.

The Satake Glass Melting Plant in Izumi, Osaka, holds the furnace of a working rod factory. A raised vent roof and weatherboarded gable face the street.

Jizoji Shokido, a small hall of 1935 at a Shingon temple in Kawachinagano, Osaka, was given by the Osaka firm whose camphor mothballs bore the demon-queller Shoki.

The roofed gallery enclosing the central precinct of Shitennoji Temple in Osaka covers 1116 square metres and still follows the line excavation found beneath it.

At the north end of the walled precinct of Shitennoji Temple in Osaka, this 1963 reconstruction divides its sanctuary into a winter hall and a summer hall.

Rebuilt in 1959 to about 37 metres, this steel-and-concrete pagoda at Shitennoji Temple in Osaka has 6 interior levels and a spiral stair visitors can climb.

Rebuilt in 1961 on its excavated footprint, the Golden Hall of Shitennoji Temple in Osaka was the first ancient Japanese hall reconstructed from dug evidence.

The south gate of the walled precinct at Shitennoji Temple in Osaka, rebuilt in 1963 with guardian kings in its side bays and deliberately kept to a single storey.

The Shibakawa Building in Osaka, an Art Deco office block of 1927 near Yodoyabashi, wears Maya and Inca style ornament and now houses shops and cafés.

The Shotokukan Guardian Shrine in Higashiosaka is a 1939 household shrine called Hachiman-san, a Hachiman-zukuri copy of Usa Jingu's sanctuary on a granite base.

The Shotokukan Storehouse in Higashiosaka joins two 1939 two-story storehouses under formal tiled roofs with a lower link, 13 ken long. Registered in 2000.

The Shotokukan East Wall in Higashiosaka is a 24-meter roofed wall of 1939 along the Nagase River, with exposed posts, a boarded base and a planted strip before it.

The Shotokukan South Wall in Higashiosaka is a 70-meter roofed wall of 1939 that turns at the estate's southeast corner, fronted by a timber fence along a side lane.

The Shotokukan Gate in Higashiosaka is the 1939 front gate of timber merchant Mori Heizo's home, a yakuimon with a gently swelling roof and single-board doors.

The main hall of Shinkoji in Osaka's temple quarter, rebuilt in concrete in 1929, takes an Indian look with a dome, multi-lobed arches and finial-like ornaments.

The Sumiyoshi Taisha North Ema Hall is a 1929 votive pavilion in Osaka, one of an identical pair flanking the main approach just before the arched bridge.

The Sumiyoshi Taisha Satsukiden Hall is a 1936 open pavilion in Osaka beside the sacred paddy, used for the June rice-planting rite and set on a formal stone base.

The Sumiyoshi Taisha Sacred Horse Stable is a 1931 timber stable in Osaka still housing the shrine's white horse, with stall and groom's room under one roof.