Shōwa
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The main building of the old Meirin school in Hagi, a timber school of 1935 on the site of the domain school, is now open free as part of the Hagi Meirin Gakusha.
Lodgings for male staff built about 1931 on a Hofu estate, with an inward-facing entry, two small tatami rooms, and three hooded windows on its outer east wall.
A small lodging for female staff built about 1931 on a Hofu estate, with two tatami rooms and a board-clad back wall that doubles as the boundary along the street.
A two-storey plastered storehouse of about 1931 anchoring the street front of a Hofu estate, with a plaster band under the eaves and copper-clad window doors.
A T-shaped house of about 1931 in Hofu, Yamaguchi, joining reception and living wings under a hipped-and-gabled roof, with openwork transoms and a Western office.
A half-bay-deep storage shed and privy built about 1931 on a Hofu estate. Its board-clad back doubles as the north boundary wall, making it part of the street front.
A roofed gate and 48-metre wall of local pink cinder brick, half a brick thick with a sawtooth top on the street side, fronting a 1931 estate in Hofu, Yamaguchi.