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.
A small early-Showa bracket-arm gate between the main house and annex in Amagasaki, Hyogo, with a slatted transom and side walls matching the outer wall.
An early-Showa garden room in Amagasaki, Hyogo: one six-mat room with tokonoma and desk alcove, corridors on three sides, and copper-edged eaves; registered 2009.
The storehouse of Yutoya Ryokan in Kinosaki, Hyogo, built in 1932, is a large two-storey clay-walled store with namako tiling and mock-stone mortar at its base.
The connecting corridor of Yutoya Ryokan in Kinosaki, Hyogo, from the mid-Showa period, adds hexagons inspired by the Genbudo Cave and pine, bamboo and plum windows.
The Yoneda Family Residence Guest Hall in Sumoto is a 1941 sukiya building on 2 floors, with prized-wood alcoves, a bamboo coffered ceiling and fan-rafter eaves.
The Yoneda Family Residence Lower Storage Shed in Sumoto is a 1941 storage strip about 1 metre deep behind the main house, split into 4 bays with sliding doors.
The Yoneda Family Residence Main House in Sumoto is a 1941 single-storey sukiya-style home with a gabled porch; its ridge tag names its designer and carpenter.
The Yoneda Family Residence Shinden Pavilion is a 1941 south-facing pavilion in Sumoto, pairing tile with cypress-bark eaves and walls of board, screen and glass.
The Yoneda Family Residence Storehouse in Sumoto is a 1941 2-storey storehouse on a cut-granite base, with white plaster walls, a mizukiri ledge and full tile roof.
The Yoneda Family Residence Shrine in Sumoto is a 1941 household shrine in one-bay nagare-zukuri style, with a copper roof, bracket sets and carved beams on granite.
The Yoneda Family Residence Bathhouse in Sumoto is a 1941 sukiya building lining up a bath, dressing room and tea room, with log rafters and an odd alcove post.
The Yoneda Family Residence Western-Style House in Sumoto is a 1941 office wing with scratch-tile walls and a parapet over a Japanese timber frame, facing the house.
The main hall of Renjoji at Kinosaki Onsen, Hyogo, a building of 1933 moved here from the Omoto religion in 1936, has an off-centre porch and a bell-shaped window.
The garage of Roy Smith Hall in Nada, Kobe, built around 1935, is an unusual two-storey garage with a chauffeur's room above, its colours matched to the main house.
The main building of Roy Smith Hall, the former Otani house in Nada, Kobe, built in 1935, has a Spanish-tiled hipped roof, half-timbering and stained glass.
The gate pillars and stone walls of Roy Smith Hall in Nada, Kobe, built around 1935, are granite-faced pillars and walls 111 metres long, typical of large estates.
Rokko Sanso, the former Kodera family villa on Mount Rokko in Kobe, built in 1934, has clapboard walls and a living room with a stone fireplace by its terrace.
Built in 1932 as a soy sauce company head office in Tatsuno, this timber building wears tile and stone to read as brick. Since 1979 it has shown 2,400 brewing tools.
A 1950 doctor's surgery built beside a headman's house in Fukusaki, Hyogo. Waiting room west, operating room north-east, a glazed front east. Shops occupy it now.
A small 1933 timber house on the steep slope below Suwayama Park in Kobe, registered in 2006 for its part in the hillside landscape. Private and closed to visitors.