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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Goto Textile Former Kettle House
Gunma 昭和中
Goto Textile Former Kettle House

A 1949 kettle house at Goto Textile Mill in Kiryu, rebuilt after wartime removal, where a brick furnace with five firing mouths still holds its iron kettles.

Goto Textile Water Tower
Gunma 昭和前
Goto Textile Water Tower

A 1933 reinforced-concrete tower at Goto Textile Mill in Kiryu, 5.7 metres tall, whose tank held well water pumped by the factory motor for dyeing silk.

Goto Textile Factory
Gunma 昭和中
Goto Textile Factory

A timber weaving shed built in 1948 after wartime requisition at Goto Textile Mill, Kiryu. Sawtooth bays were added in 1949 and 1950 as weaving resumed.

Goto Textile West Storehouse
Gunma 昭和前
Goto Textile West Storehouse

A 1936 single-storey store behind the factory at Goto Textile Mill in Kiryu, one open room built to hold the punched jacquard cards for its obi designs.

Kobayashi Family Residence (Former Kotake Textile Co., Ltd.) Stone Wall
Gunma 昭和中
Kobayashi Family Residence (Former Kotake Textile Co., Ltd.) Stone Wall

The Kobayashi Family Residence Stone Wall in Kiryu, Gunma, is an 82-metre cobble flood wall of about 1953, built after typhoon floods to guard a silk mill and house.

Kobayashi Family Residence (Former Kotake Textile Co., Ltd.) Factory
Gunma 昭和中
Kobayashi Family Residence (Former Kotake Textile Co., Ltd.) Factory

The Kobayashi Family Residence Factory in Kiryu, Gunma, built in 1948, joins four gabled sheds instead of a sawtooth roof. Kotake Textile wove fukuro-obi here.

Kobayashi Family Residence (Former Kotake Textile Co., Ltd.) Main House
Gunma 昭和前
Kobayashi Family Residence (Former Kotake Textile Co., Ltd.) Main House

The Kobayashi Family Residence Main House in Kiryu, Gunma, dates to about 1931. Its earth floor opens into the mill, and obi were shown to buyers in its best rooms.

Kobayashi Family Residence (Former Kotake Textile Co., Ltd.) Warehouse No. 1
Gunma 昭和中
Kobayashi Family Residence (Former Kotake Textile Co., Ltd.) Warehouse No. 1

Warehouse No. 1 at the Kobayashi Family Residence in Kiryu, Gunma, is a 1961 concrete-block yarn store with a well and sink that served both the mill and the house.

Kobayashi Family Residence (Former Kotake Textile Co., Ltd.) Warehouse No. 2
Gunma 昭和中
Kobayashi Family Residence (Former Kotake Textile Co., Ltd.) Warehouse No. 2

Warehouse No. 2 at the Kobayashi Family Residence in Kiryu, Gunma, is a 1962 concrete-block store on the stone wall by the gate that held punched loom cards.

Kobayashi Family Residence (Former Kotake Textile Co., Ltd.) Fence
Gunma 昭和中
Kobayashi Family Residence (Former Kotake Textile Co., Ltd.) Fence

The Kobayashi Family Residence Fence in Kiryu, Gunma, is a 49-metre open board fence of about 1953 on a cobble flood wall, giving a silk mill the look of a home.

Komi Family Residence (Mizumuraen) Retirement House
Gunma 昭和前
Komi Family Residence (Mizumuraen) Retirement House

The Komi Family Residence (Mizumuraen) Retirement House is a 1927 timber house with upstairs retirement rooms at a Takasaki tea shop, registered in 2000.

Komoda Family Residence Storehouse
Gunma 昭和前
Komoda Family Residence Storehouse

The Komoda Family Residence Storehouse in Isesaki, Gunma, is a 1927 earthen kura with a king post truss roof, steel sashes of wired glass and an attached miso room.

Jomo Electric Railway Ogo Station Building
Gunma 昭和前
Jomo Electric Railway Ogo Station Building

Timber station building of 1928 at Ogo on the Jomo Electric Railway in Maebashi, Gunma, clad in clapboard and plaster, still in use as the station today.

Jomo Electric Railway Ogo Power-Receiving Tower
Gunma 昭和前
Jomo Electric Railway Ogo Power-Receiving Tower

Steel power-receiving tower of 1928 at the Ogo substation of the Jomo Electric Railway in Maebashi, Gunma: a chair-shaped tower that receives power from the grid.

Jomo Electric Railway Ogo Relay Tower
Gunma 昭和前
Jomo Electric Railway Ogo Relay Tower

Steel relay tower of 1928 at the Ogo substation of the Jomo Electric Railway in Maebashi, Gunma: a portal tower that relays the busbar and branch line.

Jomo Electric Railway Ogo Train Depot
Gunma 昭和前
Jomo Electric Railway Ogo Train Depot

Timber train depot of 1928 at Ogo on the Jomo Electric Railway, Gunma, two tall gabled bays on king-post trusses; among Japan's earliest, open for booked tours.

Jomo Electric Railway Ogo Dead-End Tower
Gunma 昭和前
Jomo Electric Railway Ogo Dead-End Tower

Steel dead-end tower of 1928 at the Ogo substation of the Jomo Electric Railway in Maebashi, Gunma: a column-like tower that anchors the end of the busbar.

Jomo Electric Railway Ogo Lightning-Arrester Tower
Gunma 昭和前
Jomo Electric Railway Ogo Lightning-Arrester Tower

Steel lightning-arrester tower of 1928 at the Ogo substation of the Jomo Electric Railway in Maebashi, Gunma: a trussed tower that supports the arrester branch line.

Jomo Electric Railway Ogo Substation
Gunma 昭和前
Jomo Electric Railway Ogo Substation

Concrete substation of 1928 at Ogo on the Jomo Electric Railway, Gunma, extended in 1943 as a wartime refuge for the head office and still in use today.

Jomo Electric Railway Kasukawa Bridge
Gunma 昭和前
Jomo Electric Railway Kasukawa Bridge

Steel four-span railway bridge of 1928 over the Kasu River in Maebashi, Gunma, on the Jomo line; piers rebuilt after a 1947 typhoon, girders still original.