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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Tada Family Residence Archery Hall
Fukuoka 昭和前
Tada Family Residence Archery Hall

A private archery hall of about 1933 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka, with a shooting floor, an anteroom with a Shinto altar, and a target house facing it.

Tada Family Residence Lumber Storehouse
Fukuoka 昭和前
Tada Family Residence Lumber Storehouse

A storehouse of about 1933 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka, with a clay-walled timber store and a wooden firewood store under stepped gabled roofs.

Tada Family Residence Warehouse
Fukuoka 昭和前
Tada Family Residence Warehouse

A 2-story building of about 1933 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka, used as servants' quarters until about 1945, with lattices fitted to its upstairs windows.

Tada Family Residence Earthen Wall
Fukuoka 昭和前
Tada Family Residence Earthen Wall

An earthen wall of about 1933 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka, 106 meters long, with plaster walls, bark or board at the base and local left-hand pantiles.

Tada Family Residence Barn
Fukuoka 昭和前
Tada Family Residence Barn

A barn of about 1933 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka: 10.1 meters long but 1.9 meters deep, its south face built as one with the earthen wall.

Tada Family Residence Target House
Fukuoka 昭和前
Tada Family Residence Target House

A target house of about 1933 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka, facing the archery hall, with an open front under a curved tie beam and cedar bark walls.

Tada Family Residence Storage Shed
Fukuoka 昭和前
Tada Family Residence Storage Shed

A firewood shed of about 1933 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka, open at the front and roofed with local left-hand pantiles; the smallest of the 18.

Tadokoro Shoten Warehouse
Fukuoka 昭和前
Tadokoro Shoten Warehouse

The Tadokoro Shoten Warehouse in Yahata, Kitakyushu, an early Showa store for tea, is an L-shaped building of local slag brick under an irregular hipped roof.

Najima Bridge
Fukuoka 昭和前
Najima Bridge

The Najima Bridge of 1933 over the Tatara River in Fukuoka carries Route 3 on seven flat concrete arches, with classical balconies and domed newel posts.

Japan Evangelical Lutheran Kurume Church Brick Wall
Fukuoka 昭和前
Japan Evangelical Lutheran Kurume Church Brick Wall

The brick wall of about 1927 at the Lutheran church in Kurume, Fukuoka, shows seven arches between evenly spaced piers, a street frontage that matches the chapel.

Nogata Tanio Museum of Art Teahouse Tetsugyuan
Fukuoka 昭和前
Nogata Tanio Museum of Art Teahouse Tetsugyuan

Tetsugyuan, the tea house of the Nogata Tanio Art Museum in Fukuoka, was built around 1941 in sukiya style. Tea room, mizuya and waiting room run in one line.

Western-Style Building of the Nogata Tanio Museum of Art (former Okuno Clinic)
Fukuoka 昭和前
Western-Style Building of the Nogata Tanio Museum of Art (former Okuno Clinic)

The Nogata Tanio Art Museum Western Wing in Fukuoka was rebuilt around 1941 as the Okuno Clinic after a fire. Composite columns and tiled walls hide a timber frame.

Japanese-Style Building of the Nogata Tanio Museum of Art (former main house of the Okuno Family Residence)
Fukuoka 昭和前
Japanese-Style Building of the Nogata Tanio Museum of Art (former main house of the Okuno Family Residence)

Built around 1941 behind the Okuno Clinic in Nogata, Fukuoka, the Japanese Wing housed the family. A mud-walled storehouse at one corner holds the collection.

Bairinji Tea House
Fukuoka 昭和中
Bairinji Tea House

The Bairinji Tea House of 1958 in Kurume, Fukuoka, an early work by Kikutake Kiyonori, rests a roof-and-beam slab on a few columns behind walls of glass.

Suisui Hundred-Year Garden Inn (Former Ryokan Tagawa Annex) Kiku
Fukuoka 昭和中
Suisui Hundred-Year Garden Inn (Former Ryokan Tagawa Annex) Kiku

Kiku, the central annex of the former Ryokan Tagawa in Kokura, Kitakyushu, built in 1962, has deep eaves and a railed veranda that make it seem to float on the pond.

Suisui Hundred-Year Garden Inn (Former Ryokan Tagawa Annex) Genkai
Fukuoka 昭和中
Suisui Hundred-Year Garden Inn (Former Ryokan Tagawa Annex) Genkai

Genkai, the western annex of the former Ryokan Tagawa in Kokura, Kitakyushu, built in 1962, uses bamboo and logs in a hermitage manner with a modern ceiling grid.

Suisui Hundred-Year Garden Inn (Former Ryokan Tagawa Annex) Sugao
Fukuoka 昭和中
Suisui Hundred-Year Garden Inn (Former Ryokan Tagawa Annex) Sugao

Sugao, an annex of the former Ryokan Tagawa in Kokura, Kitakyushu, built in 1962, is a shoin-style sukiya that sets curtains between shoji and glass doors.

Suisui Hundred-Year Garden Inn (Former Ryokan Tagawa Annex) Connecting Corridor
Fukuoka 昭和中
Suisui Hundred-Year Garden Inn (Former Ryokan Tagawa Annex) Connecting Corridor

The corridor of the former Ryokan Tagawa annex in Kokura, Kitakyushu, built in 1962, links three sukiya rooms with a tiled floor, log posts and a bamboo ceiling.

Fukuoka Prefectural Rush Industry Hall, Former Night Duty Quarters
Fukuoka 昭和前
Fukuoka Prefectural Rush Industry Hall, Former Night Duty Quarters

The 1936 night duty annexe of the rush trade offices in Oki Town, Fukuoka. Plastered walls, an irimoya roof, two tatami rooms and a kitchen. Registered 2020.

Fukuoka Prefectural Rush Industry Hall, Main Building
Fukuoka 昭和前
Fukuoka Prefectural Rush Industry Hall, Main Building

A 1936 timber office in Oki Town, Fukuoka, built for the local rush trade. Clapboard walls with applied sticks outside, Art Deco ceilings within. Registered 2020.