Shōwa
Ishikawa · 昭和Browse Ishikawa’s cultural heritage from the Shōwa period (1926 – 1989). Filter by type and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.
A tiny 1949 wooden inspection room between two storehouses at a Komatsu sake brewery, with white plaster walls and a stained-glass bay window on its south side.
A small 1949 stone koji room at a Komatsu sake brewery, its local tuff walls laid to the eaves and topped by a light roof whose timber frame shows in the gables.
Built in 1949 between two stone stores in Komatsu, this sake workshop joins a yeast-starter room and boiler area under layered roofs beside a brick chimney.
Rebuilt in 1936 after a fire, this shop and home at a Komatsu sake brewery keeps an earthen-floored front, a family oi room and 4 grid rooms with carved transoms.
A 1948 stone-faced tool storehouse at a Komatsu sake brewery, with Western arches over its openings and a dragon and tiger carved between its stacked windows.
A 1949 timber-framed sake storehouse in Komatsu clad in local Kanagaso stone, 19 m long, with a simplified eave band and a keystoned arch over its doorway.
A 1946 stone sake storehouse in Komatsu, 15 m long, built of local Kanagaso tuff with an Edo-giri dressed base and a plastered, truss-roofed interior.
A 1948 guest room at a Komatsu sake brewery with a deep garden eave, a large alcove, a bell-arched writing bay and a coved coffered ceiling; closed for repairs.
The Hikoso Machiya in Kanazawa, a two-storey house of about 1931 with a traditional azumadachi gable, is now used by the Kanazawa Machiya Research Association.
The priests' quarters of Hoenji, the Maeda family temple in Kanazawa, is a two-storey kuri of about 1927 with a traditional ground floor and a large reception floor.
A 1934 two-storey earthen storehouse in Kanazawa, finished in artificial stone, with iron-shuttered windows facing the main house's forecourt. Registered in 2006.
Built in 1928 at the foot of the Yanagidani ravine on Mount Hakusan, this 60.5-metre dam is described as Japan's first stepped erosion dam. It was listed in 2012.