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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Former Hotta Kojoen Kido Gate
Yamanashi 昭和前
Former Hotta Kojoen Kido Gate

A 1933 gabled timber gate that fronted a Kofu restaurant inn, with bracing posts, bracketed arms, sliding lattice doors and a plaque still reading Hotta Kojoen.

Former Hotta Kojoen Tea House
Yamanashi 昭和前
Former Hotta Kojoen Tea House

A tiny 1933 tea room in Kofu laid out on a rhombus, with a four-and-a-half-mat room and biwa-dana alcove, restored to its original footprint from foundation traces.

Former Hotta Kojoen Row House
Yamanashi 昭和前
Former Hotta Kojoen Row House

A long tiled service building from 1933 that forms the street front of a Kofu restaurant inn with its gate, keeping original timbers after conversion into 2 rooms.

Former Hotta Kojoen South Annex
Yamanashi 昭和前
Former Hotta Kojoen South Annex

A 1933 detached guest room at a former Kofu restaurant inn, built to the same size and plan as its north twin and framing the east edge of the garden.

Shojuken Nagasaki Confectionery Store
Yamanashi 昭和前
Shojuken Nagasaki Confectionery Store

Clay-walled shop of 1926 of an old Japanese confectioner at Barasawa, Minami-Alps, Yamanashi, standing at a bend of the Fujikawa Highway in a former post town.

Sugiura Family Residence Former Clinic
Yamanashi 昭和前
Sugiura Family Residence Former Clinic

A 1929 clinic in Showa, Yamanashi, with reddish plaster walls, tall windows and an English sign, where two doctors fought schistosomiasis. Its dispensary survives.

Daiichikan
Yamanashi 昭和前
Daiichikan

Daiichikan in Minobu, Yamanashi: a three-storey timber inn of about 1933 by the Shinsen Bridge at Shimobe Onsen, with railed windows lining the hot-spring street.

Tsukiyone Community Hall
Yamanashi 昭和前
Tsukiyone Community Hall

Timber village hall of 1928 in Fujikawa, Yamanashi, built by local hands for an imperial enthronement, with a staged hall; still used for district gatherings.

Hirase Water Source Former Office (Suikoan)
Yamanashi 昭和前
Hirase Water Source Former Office (Suikoan)

The Hirase plant's 1935 office, a tiled timber building with a double-arched porch, later an officer's residence and home since 1988 to the Suikoan water museum.

Minobusan Kuonji Okunoin Shishinkaku Bell House
Yamanashi 昭和前
Minobusan Kuonji Okunoin Shishinkaku Bell House

The Okunoin bell house at Minobusan Kuonji is a 1935 copper-roofed bell tower on the 1,153-metre summit, its 4 round posts leaning in under deep, bracketed eaves.

Minobusan Kuonji Jishoro Time Bell Tower
Yamanashi 昭和中
Minobusan Kuonji Jishoro Time Bell Tower

The Jishoro at Minobusan Kuonji is a tall time bell tower of 1952 at the entrance to the main area, with a flared skirt and zodiac animals carved under its balcony.

Minobusan Kuonji Shishinkaku Niomon Gate
Yamanashi 昭和前
Minobusan Kuonji Shishinkaku Niomon Gate

The Shishinkaku Niomon at Minobusan Kuonji is a 1935 gate on the 1,153-metre summit, a copper-roofed hakkyakumon housing Nio guardian statues behind carved brackets.

Minobusan Kuonji Joshoden Hall
Yamanashi 昭和中
Minobusan Kuonji Joshoden Hall

The Joshoden at Minobusan Kuonji is a 1958 cypress-bark hall at the entrance to Nichiren's grave, its 45-mat room glazed to face the tower; the grave office is here.

Minobusan Kuonji New Shoin
Yamanashi 昭和前
Minobusan Kuonji New Shoin

The New Shoin at Minobusan Kuonji is a 1931 building on artificial ground, with 3 tatami rooms of 24 mats under high coffered ceilings and lattice-filled gables.

Minobusan Kuonji Suigyodo Hall
Yamanashi 昭和中
Minobusan Kuonji Suigyodo Hall

The Suigyodo at Minobusan Kuonji is a 1952 open-sided pavilion for water austerities, a tiled gable roof on chamfered posts and close brackets over a water basin.

Minobusan Kuonji Zuimon Gate
Yamanashi 昭和中
Minobusan Kuonji Zuimon Gate

The Zuimon at Minobusan Kuonji is a 1953 yakuimon gate with side walls closing off the Sanmaido, built of thick timber with bearing blocks and boat-shaped arms.

Minobusan Kuonji Sobyo Mizuya Pavilion
Yamanashi 昭和前
Minobusan Kuonji Sobyo Mizuya Pavilion

The Sobyo Mizuya at Minobusan Kuonji is a 1944 log-built water pavilion before Nichiren's grave, where a hollowed boulder basin holds water from the Minobu River.

Minobusan Kuonji Sobyo Mausoleum Tower
Yamanashi 昭和前
Minobusan Kuonji Sobyo Mausoleum Tower

The Sobyo tower at Minobusan Kuonji is a 12-metre marble-faced octagon of 1942 over Nichiren's grave, sheltering the original gorinto stone memorial of his tomb.

Minobusan Kuonji Sobyo Worship Hall
Yamanashi 昭和前
Minobusan Kuonji Sobyo Worship Hall

The Sobyo Worship Hall at Minobusan Kuonji is a 1942 log-framed hall under cypress bark, with a stone-paved floor for standing worship before Nichiren's grave.

Minobusan Kuonji Butsuden and Nohaido Halls
Yamanashi 昭和前
Minobusan Kuonji Butsuden and Nohaido Halls

The Butsuden and Nohaido at Minobusan Kuonji, built in 1931, join a Buddha hall to 2 memorial-tablet wings; anyone can join its services at noon and 3:00 p.m.