Shōwa

The priest's house at Tsuwano Catholic Church in Shimane is a timber building of 1917 in 2 storeys, slate-roofed and clad differently on each floor. Registered 2010.

Built in 1927 to electrify the line to Matsue, Nunosaki Substation still feeds Ichibata's trains. Its symmetrical front carries a giant order of pilasters.

Built in 1930, registered in 1996: Ichibata's Izumo Taisha-mae station wears a Secession-style roof, and coloured glass patterns the floor of a working terminus.

The early-Showa tea-garden arbor of the Itohara house, barely three square metres under a cedar-bark roof, where guests paused before a tea gathering.

Built in 1929 at Matsue's Imbe plant, this 683-square-metre concrete slow sand filter bed was registered in 2008 and still filters the city's drinking water today.

Built in 1929, this valve chamber and receiving well is where raw water first enters Matsue's Imbe plant, with a flow-measuring notch and granite coping on its rim.

Built in 1929 as Matsue's Imbe plant grew, this round well gathers filtered water for the reservoirs. Its housing has columns carrying a shallow arched canopy.

Completed in 1929 in Matsue's first waterworks expansion, this 683 m² slow sand filter bed has a well housing with simplified pillars and a row of pilasters on top.

Okuno Shogo Family Residence Wall, Mori, Yasugi: a 1929 concrete garden wall 45 meters long, modeled on a timber fence of posts and rails, with German-style render.

Karakoro Art Studio in Matsue, the former Bank of Japan branch of 1938 by Nagano Uheiji, has a Greek-temple front, a double-height banking hall and a vault.

The former Shimane Prefectural Museum of 1958 by Kikutake Kiyonori lifts a box-like top floor on columns south of Matsue Castle, in white and black to suit the keep.

The museum annex of 1969 by Kikutake Kiyonori in Matsue lifts its storage above open galleries, exposed concrete below and white cement above, beside his museum.

The former Tadokoro school auditorium in Onan, Shimane, a timber hall of 1928 under a great hip-and-gable roof, tells of schooling in the old town of Mizuho.

Built in 1933 facing the family's main house on Izumo's Momen Kaido, this tall two-storey wing is pierced by a kakedashi passage running through to the canal.

A 19-metre reinforced concrete chimney built in 1957 at Shimomori Brewery in Tsuwano. It vented the kiln that steamed sake rice and now marks the brewery from afar.

The early-Showa rice mill at Shimomori Brewery in Tsuwano handled rice polishing, the first step of sake-making, and completes a quiet street front beside the storehouse.

The assembly hall of the Shimane prefectural government in Matsue, built with the main office in 1959, sets its chamber on the second floor behind horizontal eaves.

The main building of the Shimane prefectural government in Matsue, a modernist office of 1959 on the castle's third bailey, crosses columns with white eaves.

The Shimane Prefectural Civic Center of 1968 before the gate of Matsue Castle sets a concert hall amid low wings, its colonnade matching the government building.

The Shimane Prefectural Library of 1968 in Matsue, by Kikutake Kiyonori, sets L-shaped reading rooms round a steel-roofed lobby and looks out to the castle park.