Following a greater appreciation of this situation, a gradually increasing number of traditional private houses from the Edo Period and Western-style buildings of modern times have been designated as national important cultural properties or as cultural properties by local governments since the late 1960s.
このような反省に立ち、昭和40年代頃から、近世の民家建築、近代の洋風建築などが国の重要文化財や、地方公共団体の文化財に指定される例が漸増していった。