Shōwa
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Built in 1928 for the Johana silk producers' association in Nanto, Toyama, this timber building wears a scratch-tile front that only looks like brick. Open today.
Smallest of four registered buildings at Shofuro in Nanto, Toyama, this prewar Showa storehouse hangs iron doors in a torii-shaped frame of black lime plaster.
At the north-west corner of the Shofuro site in Nanto, Toyama, this prewar storehouse was listed for one thing above all: what its walls do for the street.
A 1934 timber town hall in Imizu, Toyama, registered in 2014, decorated with acanthus and phoenix reliefs by plasterer Takeuchi Genzo, now a museum of his work.
The former main building of Tanaka Elementary School in Namekawa, Toyama, built in 1936, is a 60-metre timber school with Art Deco motifs in ceilings and fittings.
Completed in 1928 at Yasui in Nanto, Toyama, this registered wooden house kept an unfinished second floor that leaves its roof frame and eaves levers open to view.
A late Taisho storehouse in Futakuchi, Imizu: plaster walls over a washed-mortar base, iron doors and a separate tiled roof, about 50 years after the main house.