Shōwa
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Kada Family Residence Roji Gate, an early Showa tea garden gate in Wakayama City, has a cedar-bark roof held by bamboo battens and woven bamboo screen doors.
A 1968 Western-style parlour joined to a Taisho farmhouse in Aridagawa, Wakayama, with mortar walls, tall glazed doors and a marble fireplace; registered in 2018.
An early Showa farm barn on the street side of a mikan-growing estate in Aridagawa, Wakayama, with plastered walls over boarding, used to store tools and sort fruit.
The Matsushita Memorial Museum at Kii-Fudoki-no-Oka, Wakayama, designed by Urabe Shizutaro in 1971, blends into a field of burial mounds with ancient motifs.
The former Kamiakizu Elementary School in Tanabe, Wakayama, now Akizuno Garten, is a long timber school of 1953 with an escape route to the hill and fire doors.
The former Kii-Yuasa Station in Yuasa, Wakayama, a timber station of 1927 with a half-hipped roof and gabled porch, conveys pre-war design in a soy-sauce town.
Built in 1934 on the campus of Kokawa High School in Kinokawa City, this 131-square-metre timber wing housed residential home economics practice. Registered 2023.
A 1929 concrete reading room at Toin High School, Wakayama, given by parents for the school's fiftieth year, with a columned west porch and a crest set in mortar.
A 36 m² early Shōwa cottage of a Hirogawa net-making family, said to have housed Toda Yasutarō's brother, with a curved roof and fan-rafter eaves; registered 2016.
An early Shōwa guest wing of a Hirogawa net-making family, with two 10-mat rooms in fine cypress and copper-edged eaves; registered in 2016, it is now a guest room.
An early Shōwa storehouse of a Hirogawa net-making family, a 5.9 m square with a heavy tiled roof and namako walls; registered 2016, it is now a guest room.
An early Shōwa household storehouse of a Hirogawa net-making family, with namako walls set diagonally on one side and in a grid on the other; registered 2016.
A 1927 reinforced concrete office in Wakayama City with an Ionic portico on a footprint of only 82 square metres, left standing after the 1945 air raid.
A 1940 Japanese-style house in Wakayama City with a Western parlor by the door: Spanish-tile gable, paired arched windows, and tatami rooms facing the garden.
Built in 1939 at the back of the Kiwata estate in Wakayama City, a white-plastered two-storey storehouse with big iron doors, a Western cornice and shaped brackets.
Behind the Kiwata main house in Wakayama City, a c.1940 annex with a stepped tile roof, fanned rafters and a six-mat tea room of bark-on logs and bamboo battens.
The c.1940 street front of the Kiwata house in Wakayama City: a one-bay yakuimon gate with side gates, and a granite-based brick wall that curves in on both sides.
Kokokuji Temple Great Gate in Yura, Wakayama, is a tall 1938 four-legged gate of zelkova with a gabled tiled roof and peony carving, moved in 1997; registered 2025.
The sutra repository of Kodaiin on Koyasan, Wakayama, built in 1927 in the log-built azekura style, stands on a cut-stone base under a pyramidal copper roof.
Koyasan University Library on Mount Koya, Wakayama, a concrete library of 1929 by Takeda Goichi built for 300,000 Buddhist books, has a five-level stack.