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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Horikawaya Matabei Family Residence Storehouse
Wakayama 昭和前
Horikawaya Matabei Family Residence Storehouse

The Matabei Residence Storehouse, built around 1930 north of the main house, stands on a granite foundation with a plank-and-plaster west face. Registered in 2014.

Misaki Family Residence Main House
Wakayama 昭和前
Misaki Family Residence Main House

The main house of the Misaki family near Wakayama Castle, built 1935 to 1938, pairs a two-tier roofline and sukiya-style log interiors with a Western reception room.

Misaki Family Residence Kitchen Building
Wakayama 昭和前
Misaki Family Residence Kitchen Building

The kitchen building of the Misaki family residence in Wakayama, built 1935 to 1938, is a plain hipped-roof wing set apart from the main house, samurai-house style.

Misaki Family Residence Storehouse
Wakayama 昭和前
Misaki Family Residence Storehouse

The two-storey storehouse of the Misaki family near Wakayama Castle, built 1935 to 1938, turns its gable to the back street in an estate of samurai-house lineage.

Mitsugonin Temple Karukayado Hall
Wakayama 昭和前
Mitsugonin Temple Karukayado Hall

The Karukayado Hall of Mitsugonin on Koyasan, Wakayama, built around 1926, links two Jizo sanctuaries by a corridor where the tale of Karukaya is told in pictures.

Miwasaki Youth Hall
Wakayama 昭和前
Miwasaki Youth Hall

Built in 1927 near Miwasaki fishing port in Shingu, Wakayama, this timber hall wears a carved sunrise on its gable and still hosts whale-dance rehearsals today.

Mukai Family Residence Front Gate and Flanking Walls
Wakayama 昭和前
Mukai Family Residence Front Gate and Flanking Walls

An early-Showa bracket-arm gate with flanking walls on the old Awashima road in Kada, Wakayama: carved arms, a flattened lintel, rear props and deep, plain eaves.

Mukai Family Residence Wall
Wakayama 昭和前
Mukai Family Residence Wall

An early-Showa concrete wall, 8.2 meters long, on the old Awashima road in Kada, Wakayama, with black sumi, a white band and boarding to match the gate walls.

Yamamoto Family Residence Akagura (Red Storehouse)
Wakayama 昭和前
Yamamoto Family Residence Akagura (Red Storehouse)

A 1937 two-storey annex of a hemp-palm merchant family in Kainan, Wakayama, named for its red-painted woodwork, with a chidori-hafu gable and a pale blue interior.

Yamamoto Family Residence Retirement House
Wakayama 昭和前
Yamamoto Family Residence Retirement House

A single-storey retirement house of 1937 at the Yamamoto estate in Kainan, Wakayama, with red-earth gables, deep bracketed eaves and an L-shaped inner corridor.

Yuasa Elementary School Auditorium
Wakayama 昭和前
Yuasa Elementary School Auditorium

Built in 1936 in Yuasa, a soy-sauce town, this steel-framed auditorium pairs a triple-arched porch with rhythmic ribbed side walls near the old quarter.

Yushinan (former Tanaka Family Residence) Main Building
Wakayama 昭和前
Yushinan (former Tanaka Family Residence) Main Building

Built around 1933 by a Mio man who prospered in Canada's salmon fishery, this Japanese house with a clapboard Western parlor now serves as a town-run guesthouse.

Yushinan (former Tanaka Family Residence) Gate and Wall
Wakayama 昭和前
Yushinan (former Tanaka Family Residence) Gate and Wall

A concrete gate and fence with washed-aggregate finish, pilasters and stepped coping front the Yushin-an house, a 1930s street face and Registered Cultural Property.

Wakayama Prefectural Architects Association Hall
Wakayama 昭和後
Wakayama Prefectural Architects Association Hall

The Wakayama architects' association built this compact 1966 modernist office for itself, with tiled facades, a floating upper wall, and hidden rainwater pipes.

Wakayama Prefectural Office Main Building
Wakayama 昭和前
Wakayama Prefectural Office Main Building

Completed in 1938 and modeled on the National Diet Building, Wakayama's prefectural hall survived the wartime bombing and still serves as the seat of government.

Wakayama Electric Railway Kishigawa Line Oike First Bridge
Wakayama 昭和前
Wakayama Electric Railway Kishigawa Line Oike First Bridge

A 36-meter steel five-span girder bridge built in 1933 to carry the line across Oike pond, using seven-meter I-beams unusual for the period. Registered in 2014.

Wakayama Electric Railway Kishigawa Line Oike Second Bridge
Wakayama 昭和前
Wakayama Electric Railway Kishigawa Line Oike Second Bridge

The longest bridge on the Kishigawa Line at 51 meters across seven spans, built over Oike pond in 1933, with cylindrical concrete piers and dry-stone wing walls. Registered in 2014.

Materials Related to the Uezu Family
Okinawa 第二尚氏~昭和時代
Materials Related to the Uezu Family

Flower Garden
Gifu 昭和
Flower Garden

Modern Architectural Drawings by the Public Higher Education
Miyagi 昭和時代
Modern Architectural Drawings by the Public Higher Education