Shōwa
Miyagi · 昭和Browse Miyagi’s cultural heritage from the Shōwa period (1926 – 1989). Filter by type and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.
Built in 1932 and extended in 1935, this scratch-tile building with vertical piers and a stone entrance now serves as Tohoku University's headquarters.
The former Marumori Post Office in Miyagi, a two-storey building of 1935 faced in scratch tile and artificial stone, has tall windows and dentils on its parapet.
A 1930 zashiki storehouse behind the Kakutaya shop, Toyoma, Tome City, built by a Yamada branch family, with an upstairs room of lacquered zelkova. Registered 2021.
An early Showa zelkova gate on Toyoma's main street in Tome City, with a one-board transom, carved brackets and a pendant pierced with cranes. Registered 2021.
An early Showa shop storehouse on Toyoma's main street, Tome City: hipped roof, stone-clad base, barred glass doors and an upstairs alcove room. Registered in 2021.
A small early Showa document storehouse on Toyoma's main street, Tome City, with copper-clad eaves and stone vents, paired with the shop storehouse. Registered 2021.
The Sairi Yashiki Outdoor Lamp in Marumori, Miyagi, is an early Showa garden lamp: a granite column topped with an iron post, S-curved supports and a glass globe.
The Sairi Yashiki Stone Utility Pole in Marumori, Miyagi, is a 5.4-metre granite power pole with its insulator, a relic of the Saito family's electric light company.
The Sairi Yashiki Lightning Rod Tower in Marumori, Miyagi, is a 26-metre early Showa steel truss for a private home, said to reflect an owner's fear of thunder.
A tiny sukiya-style well house of about 1939 on the Sato estate in Ogawara, Miyagi, with log posts, a timber well curb and a west face of diamond lattice.
A garden wall of about 1939 inside the Sato estate in Ogawara, Miyagi, 75 metres long, faced in split bamboo on one side, with a diamond-patterned gate.
A two-storey storehouse of about 1939 in Ogawara, Miyagi, 13 metres long, with clay-sealed openings in torii-shaped frames, a king post truss and a T-shaped stair.
The yakuimon gate and 54-metre boundary wall of about 1939 on the Oshu Kaido in Ogawara, Miyagi, heavy posts below a light roof, visible from the street.
A courtyard house of about 1939 built by a soy sauce brewing family in Ogawara, Miyagi, with more than 30 rooms, tatami throughout and just two Western rooms.
A tiny shinmei-style shrine on the Sato estate in Ogawara, Miyagi, first built as a pre-war hoanden and moved here after 1945, with ridge posts and six katsuogi.
An early Showa stone torii, 2.4 metres high, marking the household-god precinct of the Sato estate in Ogawara, Miyagi, its round pillars leaning slightly inward.
Shop and house of 1936 for a Sendai miso maker on Route 48 in Aoba Ward, a two-storey gabled shop with a house behind, in the segai-zukuri style of old Sendai.
Retirement house of 1954 at a fishing family's compound on Tashirojima, Ishinomaki: two storeys, with bay windows and a reception room facing the sea.
The Mikoshi-den at Tsushima Shrine in Tome City, Miyagi, was donated in 1928 together with the mikoshi itself by Sato Tetsuro, operator of the Sanuma Railway. It marked the end of a decade-long reconstruction after the catastrophic 1912 fire, and in 2024 it was added to Japan's national register of tangible cultural properties alongside the shrine's main and worship halls.
A 2.9 by 2.1 meter charm booth of 1927 before the Sadayoshi Mausoleum Hall, with a hip-and-gable copper roof and glazed doors. Still used for charms and goshuin.