Shōwa

昭和

Browse Japan’s cultural heritage from the Shōwa period (1926 – 1989). Filter by prefecture, type, and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.

4,593 total Shōwa Period 1926 – 1989
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Zozan Shrine Ema Hall
Nagano 昭和前
Zozan Shrine Ema Hall

Zozan Shrine Ema Hall in Nagano is an open-sided 1938 pavilion with deep eaves and a gable lattice, for ema plaques and rest. Registered as a property in 2005.

Zozan Shrine Saikan
Nagano 昭和前
Zozan Shrine Saikan

Zozan Shrine Saikan in Nagano is a 1938 priests' hall with a tiled roof, curved karahafu porch, tall windows and Western-style rooms. Registered in 2005.

Zozan Shrine Office
Nagano 昭和前
Zozan Shrine Office

Zozan Shrine Office in Nagano is a long 1938 hip-and-gable building with a formal shikidai entrance, alcove rooms and many roofs. Registered in late 2005.

Zozan Shrine Worship Hall and Prayer Hall
Nagano 昭和前
Zozan Shrine Worship Hall and Prayer Hall

Zozan Shrine Worship Hall and Prayer Hall in Nagano is a 1938 hip-and-gable hall with lattice shutters, offering rooms and a rear prayer hall. Registered 2005.

Zozan Shrine Treasure Hall
Nagano 昭和前
Zozan Shrine Treasure Hall

Zozan Shrine Treasure Hall in Nagano is a 30 m2 gabled storehouse of 1938 on a cut-stone base, with barred windows and vents. Registered as a property in 2005.

Zozan Shrine Main Hall
Nagano 昭和前
Zozan Shrine Main Hall

Zozan Shrine Main Hall in Matsushiro, Nagano, is a 1938 three-bay nagare-zukuri sanctuary with no carved side screens, registered as a cultural property in 2005.

Takeshige Honke Sake Brewery and the Takeshige Family
Nagano 昭和前
Takeshige Honke Sake Brewery and the Takeshige Family

A tiny iron-roofed shed of 8.4 square metres covering the founding-era round well at the Takeshige brewery in Motai, where soft Mt. Tateshina water begins its work.

Takeshige Honke Sake Brewery and the Takeshige Family
Nagano 昭和前
Takeshige Honke Sake Brewery and the Takeshige Family

A tall early-Showa storehouse at the north edge of the Takeshige brewery in Motai, built to season the timber for its sake barrels and marking the compound's growth.

Takeshige Honke Sake Brewery and the Takeshige Family
Nagano 昭和前
Takeshige Honke Sake Brewery and the Takeshige Family

An early-Showa rice-polishing house at the Takeshige brewery in Motai, set where waterways meet and once driven by a wheel on the roadside channel to mill the rice.

Takeshige Honke Sake Brewery and Takeshige Family Residence South Storehouse
Nagano 昭和前
Takeshige Honke Sake Brewery and Takeshige Family Residence South Storehouse

An early-Showa L-shaped earthen cellar on the corner across the old Nakasendo from a Nagano brewery's gate, its gable turned to the road to close the street scene.

Takeshige Honke Sake Brewery and Takeshige Family Residence Unhulled Rice Storehouse
Nagano 昭和前
Takeshige Honke Sake Brewery and Takeshige Family Residence Unhulled Rice Storehouse

An early-Showa single-storey earthen cellar south of the old Nakasendo in Motai, its east gable facing the lane to the highway, its clapboard base matching the next.

Takeshige Honke Sake Brewery and Takeshige Family Residence Household Shrine
Nagano 昭和前
Takeshige Honke Sake Brewery and Takeshige Family Residence Household Shrine

A small Hachiman shrine of 1930 at the back of a Nagano brewer's estate: a one-bay nagare-zukuri sanctuary in a copper-roofed shelter with a gabled hall before it.

Nagano Prefecture Matsumoto Fukashi High School Administration and Classroom Building
Nagano 昭和前
Nagano Prefecture Matsumoto Fukashi High School Administration and Classroom Building

Completed in 1933 and registered in 2003, this scratch-tiled block at Matsumoto Fukashi High School carries pointed arches said to echo Tokyo's Yasuda Auditorium.

Nagano Prefecture Matsumoto Fukashi High School Auditorium
Nagano 昭和前
Nagano Prefecture Matsumoto Fukashi High School Auditorium

This 1934 hall at Matsumoto Fukashi High School doubles as a gymnasium, resting a steel-trussed pantile roof on concrete walls behind five pointed entrance arches.

Nagano Prefecture Minamiazumi Agricultural High School
Nagano 昭和前
Nagano Prefecture Minamiazumi Agricultural High School

The Nichirinsha in Azumino is a circular two-storey timber hall 13 metres across, modelled on the Uchihara barracks, completed in May 1945 and registered in 2009.

Nippon Sei Ko Kai Chubu Diocese Inariyama All Saints Church
Nagano 昭和前
Nippon Sei Ko Kai Chubu Diocese Inariyama All Saints Church

A 1933 reinforced concrete Anglican church on the old Zenkoji Road in Chikuma, Nagano, registered in 2023, with buttress-style piers and round-arched windows.

Nippon Sei Ko Kai Chubu Diocese Iiyama Resurrection Church
Nagano 昭和前
Nippon Sei Ko Kai Chubu Diocese Iiyama Resurrection Church

A 1932 timber Anglican church in Iiyama, Nagano, registered in 2017, with a bell turret, pointed-arch windows and tatami seating laid from the very start.

Okaya Saint Barnabas Church (Nippon Sei Ko Kai Chubu Diocese)
Nagano 昭和前
Okaya Saint Barnabas Church (Nippon Sei Ko Kai Chubu Diocese)

Okaya Saint Barnabas Church, an Anglican church of 1928 in Okaya, Nagano, has a south front like a line of mountain peaks, temple-style ornament and tatami seating.

Nozawa Onsen Lodge
Nagano 昭和後
Nozawa Onsen Lodge

Nozawa Onsen Lodge in Nagano, an acorn-shaped timber ski lodge of 1969 by Yoshizaka Takamasa and Atelier U, wraps split-level rooms round a spiral stair.

Hatakoshi Family Residence Front Gate
Nagano 昭和前
Hatakoshi Family Residence Front Gate

The Hatakoshi Family Residence Front Gate in Matsumoto, Nagano, is a Showa-era roofless kabukimon of two braced posts joined by a beam, 4 metres wide.