Shōwa
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Oe Shintaro designed this 1928 hall on the Chihaya Castle site in Osaka. Slender timbers and finely worked door fittings distinguish it. Registered in 2024.
Just 2.5 square metres, this 1932 subsidiary shrine at Chihaya Shrine in Osaka repeats the Main Hall's round columns, tie-rails and tall gable pendant.
A mid-Meiji farmhouse in Akagawa, Osaka, registered in 2025 as Asahi Ward's first listed building. Deep eaves, a wide odo door, an attic reached only by ladder.
Osaka's landmark observation tower in Shinsekai, rebuilt in 1956 by Naito Tachu after the 1912 original was lost. Decks at 87.5m and 94.5m. Registered in 2007.
Built in 1946 and moved in 1959, this registered Osaka tearoom houses three rooms for sencha, sukiya carpentry crossed with Chinese detail and Indian chintz walls.
The Terada Family Residence Stone Wall in Kaizuka, Osaka, built in 1936, runs 56 metres of rusticated granite along the old highway, with one arched service door.
The Terada Family Residence Inner Storehouse in Kaizuka, Osaka, built in 1936, is a small earthen-walled store linked to the main house by a covered passage.
The Terada Family Residence Main House in Kaizuka, Osaka, built in 1936, sets a Spanish porch and reception room against sukiya tatami rooms under one roof.
The Terada Family Residence New House in Kaizuka, Osaka, built in 1958, carries a tiled gable and a flat deck over reinforced concrete, and faces the main house.
The Terada Family Residence Outer Storehouse in Kaizuka, Osaka, was moved here in 1936, and carving under its canopy points to an origin in the nineteenth century.
The Terada Family Residence Barn in Kaizuka, Osaka, built in 1936 into falling ground, held stores below and the room for the household's male servants above.
The Terada Family Residence Main Gate in Kaizuka, Osaka, built in 1936, uses wrinkled cedar poles and a steep tiled roof that reads convincingly as thatch.
A three-storey former private house of about 1939 in Kashiwara, Osaka, with an octagonal rooftop tower, green-glazed tiles and wire-mesh concrete walls. Not open.
A c.1939 storehouse in Kashiwara, Osaka, first built as a vaulted single-storey block, extended in 1945-1954, with Corinthian door capitals and mesh-concrete walls.
A c.1939 two-storey house in Kashiwara, Osaka, that looks like a storehouse but has wire-mesh concrete walls, offset hipped roofs, board eaves and balustrade trim.
A c.1939 concrete railing 13 metres long and 57 centimetres high beside the approach to a Tenrikyo church in Kashiwara, Osaka, with wire mesh exposed between posts.
The classroom wing of Tokajuku in Tondabayashi, Osaka, a long timber building of 1933 east of the main building, has three classrooms behind walls of glass doors.
The main building of Tokajuku in Tondabayashi, Osaka, a timber welfare building of 1933 on a green hillside, has a central porch, large windows and an upstairs hall.
Tomobayashi no Uji Shrine Temizusha, a large purification pavilion moved from Yasukuni Shrine, with three round columns at each corner and a slatted transom.
Tomobayashi no Uji Shrine Worship Hall and Offering Hall, 1941: a five-bay hip-and-gable hall of unpainted cypress with a chidori gable and a granite-paved floor.