Shōwa
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Ochanomizu University Auditorium, the 1932 Kiindo hall in the Main Building courtyard in Tokyo, pairs scratch tile with arched windows; open only for public events.
Ochanomizu University Kindergarten Building, a 1931 one-storey concrete kindergarten in Tokyo, keeps stained-glass doors and 3 registered sandpits; not open.
Ochanomizu University Main Building, a 1932 concrete school in Bunkyo, Tokyo, has grape-motif reliefs, a marble checkerboard hall and a History Museum open set days.
The Onko Gakkai Hall in Shibuya, Tokyo, built in 1927 to store some 20,000 woodblocks of the Gunsho Ruiju, is a concrete hall lined with tall buttresses.
Built in 1928 on the birthplace of Tokyo University, this SRC clubhouse by Toshikata Sano and Teitaro Takahashi served the alumni of Japan's seven former Imperial Universities. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property since 2003 and a Tokyo Metropolitan designation since 2025, it is currently closed for redevelopment until around 2030.
Kajikaen Inari Shrine, a c.1955 one-bay shrine in a courtyard of a former inn in Ome, covers 0.36 square meters yet has steps, a carved bracket and a gable.
Kajikaen Keibaian, a c.1930 guest wing at a former inn in Ome, Tokyo, uses its sloping corridor to give each floor its own entrance, with polished-log alcoves.
Kajikaen Sangyoro, a c.1930 hipped-roof guest wing at a former inn in Ome, Tokyo, pairs an outward-facing alcove with large glass shoji framing the Tama River.
Kajikaen Shazanso, a 1930 guest wing and the largest of 8 buildings at a former inn in Ome, has a 51-mat hall, built-in wardrobes and shelves with convex tops.
Kajikaen Large Bathhouse, an early Showa bathhouse at a former inn in Ome, holds a round tiled tub under wide windows, a river-stone rock bath and a wooden tub.
Kajikaen Chinryutei, a c.1930 guest wing at the lowest point of a former inn in Ome, is entered from above and has no veranda, its rooms open to the Tama River.
Registered in 2020, Kajikaen Watari-Roka is a wooden corridor in Ome, Tokyo, linking four buildings of a former inn down a steep slope by two staircases and a ramp.
A 1930 wooden house in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, drawn by architect Yoji Kanazawa for his father and built by Shimizu-gumi. Registered in 1998 in the scholars' quarter.
A 1930 timber gate with a tiled roof and a 10.7-metre board fence in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo. Fine kumiko latticework fills the transom above the tie beam of the gate.
A 29-square-metre weatherboarded studio of 1930 in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, its north-west wall and roof partly glazed. Yoji Kanazawa built it as his own design office.
Built in 1932 in Umegaoka, Setagaya, this 104-square-metre wooden house sets three roof forms over a modern central-corridor plan. Registered in 2009.
A 50-square-metre annexe of 1932 at the rear of a Setagaya plot, holding a ten-mat room with alcove, shelves and writing bay, linked to the main house by a veranda.
A reinforced concrete gateway of 1932 in Umegaoka, Setagaya, with a 2.6-metre opening, pebble-washed surfaces and red panels between pilasters. Registered in 2009.
The 1930 main house of the Kamei Residence in Setagaya, Tokyo, pairs a pantiled Japanese block with a French-tiled Western wing set beside the entrance.
Designed in 1927 by Okada Shin'ichiro, architect of the Kabukiza, this kuri at Gokokuin is a rare Japanese-style work by a modern master, and Kan'eiji's first sub-temple.