Shōwa

Maze Dam in Honjo, Saitama: a 1937 concrete gravity dam, 126 m long and 28 m high, with a timber house on its intake tower, built for the Kodama irrigation canal.

Maze Dam Management Bridge in Honjo, Saitama: a 1938 three-span concrete bridge below the dam, its piers arched at the base and grooved for stop logs. Now a path.

Matsumoto Kyoshitsu Main House in Chichibu, Saitama: a two-storey wooden townhouse built as an inn in 1929 on the old Chichibu road, now used as a tutoring school.

A 1931 Kawagoe house with convex irimoya roofs, a coffered formal room, and a corridor splitting entrance from living space. Registered in 2014; exterior view only.

A 1.7-metre timber gate of about 1931 on Kawagoe's Hachiman-dori, with a gently convex copper gable roof and slatted wing walls. Registered 2014; street view only.

This two-metre gate of 1930 in Chichibu is a registered cultural property, with adzed naguri surfaces on its posts and a single tier of widely spaced rafters.

Designed in 1930 by Chichibu-born architect Yamada Jun, this registered house crosses gabled roofs at differing heights over a Western exterior and Japanese rooms.

A 1934 scratch-tile bank in Gyoda, Saitama, registered in 2005, built for the Oshi Savings Bank with decorated cast stone and few openings on the windy west side.

Built around 1930 on a corner of Chichibu's Banba-dori, Yasudaya raises a mortar parapet with a cornice and acanthus panels. Registered 2004, still a butcher's shop.

The round kindergarten building in Warabi, Saitama, designed by Sakamoto Kanao in 1963, rings a central playroom with wedge-shaped classrooms under a roof terrace.