Shōwa
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Joranjuku School Building and Dormitory in Takeo, Saga: an L-shaped wooden classroom wing and dormitory meeting at Wright-style tuff piers, attributed to Endo Arata.
The Lutheran church of 1938 in Ogi, Saga, a small gabled timber church by the Vories office, is loved for the sanctuary that curves out from its rear gable wall.
Villa of 1938 on the shore of Karatsu Bay, Saga, with crossing hip-and-gable roofs and a mezzanine room facing the sea; now a guest room of the Mizuno Ryokan.
An early Showa brick and timber koji room at Yano Sake Brewery in Kashima, Saga, the newest of seven listed buildings, with an anteroom and mortar-lined walls.