Shōwa
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The Ube City Watanabe-O Memorial Hall (1937), an Important Cultural Property by Murano Togo, was built by seven local firms to honor industrialist Watanabe Yusaku.
Nishi-Iwakuni Station in Yamaguchi, built in 1929 as Iwakuni Station, has a porch of 5 arches evoking the Kintaikyo Bridge and rows of round-headed windows.
A 1929 granite horseshoe-arch overflow tunnel portal at Utsui No. 2 Reservoir, Shimonoseki, crowned by a stone plaque reading 清波, clear waves, with viewing tips.
The 1929 reinforced-concrete intake tower at Utsui No. 2 Reservoir, Shimonoseki, with its domed roof and railed walkway, in contrast to the 1906 brick tower.
Shimonoseki's Waterworks Archive Room, a 1929 concrete plant office with curved mouldings and geometric eaves, now shows Burton's legacy. Visits by application.
The gate of Zuishoan, a Soto Zen temple in Ube: thatched, single-bay, built in 1937, with a Zen balustrade above and the Shimazu crest carved twice. Registered 2021.
The Toishi Hachiman Shrine Ritual Vessel Storehouse of 1940 in Shunan, Yamaguchi hides a closed store behind boarding shaped to imitate the enclosure wall.
The Toishi Hachiman Shrine Sacred Food Preparation Hall of 1940 in Shunan, Yamaguchi matches the storehouse opposite, balancing the precinct around the halls.
The Toishi Hachiman Shrine Gate and Side Wall of 1940 in Shunan, Yamaguchi form a four-legged gate 4.2 meters wide with flanking walls running 12 meters in total.
The Toishi Hachiman Shrine Lattice Wall runs 58 meters around the sanctuary in Shunan, Yamaguchi, its hexagonal bars shifting in width as a visitor walks past.
The Toishi Hachiman Shrine Purification Pavilion of 1941 covers 3.1 square meters beside the approach in Shunan, Yamaguchi, and shelters a granite basin.
The Toishi Hachiman Shrine Worship Hall in Shunan, Yamaguchi is a 1940 rohaiden, a gatehouse floored over for worship, with wings to each side and a copper roof.
The Toishi Hachiman Shrine Offering Hall of 1940 joins sanctuary to worship hall in Shunan, Yamaguchi, with a split floor, stepped roof and ground glass shutters.
The Toishi Hachiman Shrine Main Hall in Shunan, Yamaguchi is a three-bay nagare-zukuri sanctuary of 1940, rebuilt after a fire and covering 39 square meters.
Nagao Hachiman Shrine Miyuki Bridge on Suo-Oshima: an arched bridge of 1937 over a fire-reservoir pond, with stone parapets carved in a quince-flower motif.
Wooden Western-style village office of 1928 in Ube, Yamaguchi, with the assembly hall upstairs, a rare survivor in the prefecture, now a sake brewery's office.
Memorial hall of 1937 in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, built beside the site of the 1895 peace talks in the Imperial Crown style; it displays the conference chairs.
A 1938 timber church above the Kanmon Strait in Shimonoseki, registered in 2004, with a Spanish-style front of white walls, red tiles and a tower, still in use.
Concrete house of 1936 built for Michael Ringer above the Kanmon Strait in Shimonoseki; a plain white modernist design, now a museum of the tenor Fujiwara Yoshie.
The halls of Hofu Tenmangu in Yamaguchi, built in 1958, join a main hall and worship hall by an offering hall in a delicate and elegant modern shrine design.