Shōwa

The Sumiyoshi Taisha Nankunsha Main Hall is a tiny 1954 vermilion sanctuary in Osaka set into a sacred camphor tree, the heart of the Hattatsu-san faith.

The Sumiyoshi Taisha South Ema Hall is a 1929 open-sided votive pavilion in Osaka with a mortar floor made to look like stone, paired with the North Ema Hall.

A 1936 reinforced-concrete church in Osaka's Juso, designed by the Vories office to replace one lost to the Muroto Typhoon. Rose window, belfry, free entry.

Antonin Raymond designed this concrete school in Neyagawa, finished in 1932 and registered in 1997. An early Japanese finger plan, with a Spanish colonnade.

Part of the 1928 banquet pavilion for Emperor Showa's enthronement, moved to Suita and now a Jodo Shinshu hall. Black-lacquered coved ceiling, period chandeliers.

A two-storey 1952 storehouse east of the Yamamoto main house in Taishi, Osaka, with board skirting, white plaster and bracketed drip tiles. Registered in 2003.

The Tower of the Sun in Suita, Osaka, Okamoto Taro's theme pavilion for Expo '70, became an Important Cultural Property in 2025; its interior can be visited.

A 41-meter reinforced concrete wall of 1938 enclosing the Nagi Shrine sanctuary, plastered with posts and beams and climbing the slope under specially shaped tiles.

Built in 1940 for the shrine to Kusunoki Masashige, this worship hall raises only its central porch bay under a karahafu gable, with an offering hall set behind.

The 1938 Kasuga-style sanctuary of Nagi Shrine, honoring Kusunoki Masashige: unpainted cypress, broad stairs, a kikusui crest on the ridge, and how to view it.

A townhouse of about 1932 built by a boxwood comb-making family in Kaizuka, Osaka, registered in 2003. A tall plastered front rises over a traditional floor plan.

This 47-metre early-Showa wall of the Tanaka compound in Matsubara faces the Takami Shrine approach, its plaster pierced with oval and oblong lattice-style openings.

A small early-Showa storehouse on the west edge of the Tanaka compound in Matsubara, with a floating tiled roof and plaster walls. Visible from the street.

An early-Showa gatehouse on the north side of the Tanaka compound in Matsubara, with a 2-bay gateway and a roof that differs at each end. Seen from the road.

An early-Showa annex in the Tanaka compound in Matsubara, with 8- and 6-mat guest rooms at one end and a barn, bath and pickling shed under a lower roof.

The Tanioka Memorial Hall of 1935 in Higashiosaka, Osaka, a clock-tower school rebuilt after the Muroto Typhoon, now houses a university museum of trade history.

Tamate Bridge in Kashiwara, Osaka, registered in 2001, is a five-span suspension bridge of 1928, built for an amusement park and carried on castle-like white towers.

At 127 square metres, this 1932 building is the largest registered structure at Chihaya Shrine, Osaka. Three gabled blocks push forward toward the approach.

This 1.6 square metre pavilion of 1928 shelters a natural stone basin at Chihaya Shrine, Osaka. Posts run to the ridge; two tiers of brackets carry the eaves.

Chihaya Shrine's 1928 worship hall, by Oe Shintaro, is open on all sides but for one set of rear doors, so the eye passes straight through to the forest.