Shōwa
Gifu · 昭和Browse Gifu’s cultural heritage from the Shōwa period (1926 – 1989). Filter by type and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.
Early Showa single-bay yakuimon gate of the Kojima house in Narukiyo, Kakamigahara, 2.3 m wide, with a clamped crossbeam and a finned, heart-pierced gable pendant.
A 1929 single-storey home in Ozano, Kakamigahara, with a tatami central corridor, a pyramid-roofed reception room and a half-hipped bedroom; registered in 2010.
Early Showa 2-storey main house of the Kojima family in Narukiyo, Kakamigahara: hipped-gable roof, 4-room grid with an earth floor, 13-mat zashiki, 188 sq m.
Early Showa earthen wall of the Kojima house in Narukiyo, Kakamigahara, running 18 m from the gate on a stone base, with washed mortar, green tile and white plaster.
Early Showa middle gate and garden wall of the Kojima house in Narukiyo, Kakamigahara: a 1.5 m log-framed udekimon gate and a 7.1 m copper-capped board fence.
Early Showa service wing of the Kojima house in Narukiyo, Kakamigahara, 9.7 by 2.3 m, lining up a well and washing area, bath and toilet behind white plaster walls.
A 1937 post office built on the Goto family's land beside the old Gujo Kaido in Gifu City, with clapboard walls, sash windows and a skylit office. Registered 2021.
The 1937 front gate of the Goto family compound in Gifu City: a light single-bay yakuimon with flanking walls and a lintel grooved for lost sliding doors.
The Komachi Sake Brewery Shop and Main House in Kakamigahara, Gifu, is a 1954 shop and home with black plaster walls, deep eaves and a cedar sugidama ball out front.
The Komachi Sake Brewery Gate and Wall in Kakamigahara, Gifu, is a 21-metre U-shaped wall on round stones in a tortoiseshell pattern, black outside and red within.
The Shimizu Family Residence Main House in Kakamigahara, Gifu, is a 2-storey silk farmhouse of 1931 with a long tiled gable, wraparound eaves and a formal room.
Rebuilt in 1948 after a 1921 typhoon felled the old gate, Shinryuji Temple Main Gate in Gifu is a yakuimon with a finely carved dragon strut and a lattice ceiling.
Early Showa guest wing at the Senzairo inn in Yoro, built out on stilts for the view, with glazed shoji and a ceiling painting on silk attributed to Takeuchi Seiho.
The Teishoji Temple Inari Hall in Kakamigahara, Gifu, is a small 1933 gable-front hall with a three-sided veranda, exposed posts and a carved frog-leg strut.
The Teishoji Temple Priests' Quarters in Kakamigahara, Gifu, is a 1933 temple residence with a curved-gable porch, a 16-mat hall and finely carved transoms.
The Teishoji Temple Shoin in Kakamigahara, Gifu, is a 1933 sitting room with a bark-covered cherry alcove post, woven ceiling and walls of shoji and glass.
The Teishoji Temple Purification House in Kakamigahara, Gifu, is a 5-square-metre open pavilion of 1933 with inward-leaning posts and carved gable struts.
The Teishoji Temple Treasure House in Kakamigahara, Gifu, is a 1933 concrete store styled like a log storehouse, now the Sadayakko Engikan with a glass ceiling.
The Teishoji Temple Main Hall in Kakamigahara, Gifu, is a 1933 cypress hall on a raised concrete stage, ringed by 8 panels carved with Sadayakko's miracle stories.
The Teishoji Temple Gate in Kakamigahara, Gifu, is a 1933 eight-legged gate with guardian kings, close-set brackets, fanned rafters and carved transoms.