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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Sue Water Purification Plant No. 4 Slow Sand Filter
Ishikawa 昭和前
Sue Water Purification Plant No. 4 Slow Sand Filter

The No. 4 Slow Sand Filter at Sue Water Purification Plant in Kanazawa is a 1931 filter whose small well house stands on a granite plinth with three steps.

Sue Water Purification Plant No. 6 Slow Sand Filter
Ishikawa 昭和前
Sue Water Purification Plant No. 6 Slow Sand Filter

The No. 6 Slow Sand Filter at Sue Water Purification Plant in Kanazawa is a 1931 filter at the north-west corner, where the outflows of all six filters join.

Suzuki Family Residence Main House
Ishikawa 昭和前
Suzuki Family Residence Main House

Built in 1931 after the Komatsu fire, the Suzuki Family Residence Main House turns a Nakamachi corner with a hip-and-gable roof, corner entrance and stepped eaves.

Suzuki Family Residence Shop Storehouse
Ishikawa 昭和前
Suzuki Family Residence Shop Storehouse

Built in 1931 after the Komatsu fire, the Suzuki Family Residence Shop Storehouse is concrete dressed as a plastered dozo, with a peaked parapet facing the street.

Sojiji Temple Soin Koshakudai
Ishikawa 昭和中
Sojiji Temple Soin Koshakudai

Sojiji Temple Soin Koshakudai, the 1954 priests' quarters and kitchen of Sojiji Soin in Wajima, doubles as part of the cloister and shows arched lattice windows.

Hashimoto Sake Brewery Stone Storehouse
Ishikawa 昭和中
Hashimoto Sake Brewery Stone Storehouse

A small household store of 1948 at a Kaga sake brewer’s compound, faced in Takigahara tuff under a separate fireproof roof. Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

Hashimoto Sake Brewery Front Gate
Ishikawa 昭和中
Hashimoto Sake Brewery Front Gate

This small copper-roofed gate to the garden of a Kaga sake brewer’s house was rebuilt in 1950 after the Fukui earthquake. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

Hashimoto Sake Brewery Rice-Steaming House and Polished Rice Storehouse
Ishikawa 昭和中
Hashimoto Sake Brewery Rice-Steaming House and Polished Rice Storehouse

Built in 1954 as a brewing hall at a Kaga sake compound, it wraps steel columns and trusses in tuff, a step toward concrete. Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

Hashimoto Sake Brewery Detached Reception Room
Ishikawa 昭和中
Hashimoto Sake Brewery Detached Reception Room

Rebuilt in 1950 after the Fukui earthquake, this Kaga brewer’s guest wing has a formal room with an alcove and coved ceiling. Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

Hashimoto Sake Brewery Wall
Ishikawa 昭和中
Hashimoto Sake Brewery Wall

A 23-metre wall of boards and black plaster on a tuff base that curves around the corner of a Kaga sake brewer’s compound. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

Harunari Sake Brewery Main House
Ishikawa 昭和前
Harunari Sake Brewery Main House

The Harunari sake brewery house in Nanao, Ishikawa, a tall timber townhouse of 1934 near the start of the Noto road, stands out among its neighbours for its size.

Higashi Brewery Main Gate
Ishikawa 昭和中
Higashi Brewery Main Gate

A 1949 row-house gate at a Komatsu sake brewery, with a 4.7 m gateway, heavy double doors, a wicket, and a front of stone, plaster, tall boards and a lattice window.

Higashi Brewery Back Entrance
Ishikawa 昭和中
Higashi Brewery Back Entrance

A small 1948 yakuimon gate at a Komatsu sake brewery, 1.7 m wide, flanked by cut-stone walls topped with earth on one side and boards on the other, 8.6 m in all.

Higashi Brewery Keishoan
Ishikawa 昭和中
Higashi Brewery Keishoan

A 1952 four-and-a-half-mat tea room at a Komatsu sake brewery, lit by shoji and a tall guest door under a mixed ajiro ceiling; closed for earthquake repairs.

Higashi Brewery Inspection Room
Ishikawa 昭和中
Higashi Brewery Inspection Room

A tiny 1949 wooden inspection room between two storehouses at a Komatsu sake brewery, with white plaster walls and a stained-glass bay window on its south side.

Higashi Brewery Koji Room
Ishikawa 昭和中
Higashi Brewery Koji Room

A small 1949 stone koji room at a Komatsu sake brewery, its local tuff walls laid to the eaves and topped by a light roof whose timber frame shows in the gables.

Higashi Brewery Workshop
Ishikawa 昭和中
Higashi Brewery Workshop

Built in 1949 between two stone stores in Komatsu, this sake workshop joins a yeast-starter room and boiler area under layered roofs beside a brick chimney.

Higashi Brewery Shop and Main House
Ishikawa 昭和前
Higashi Brewery Shop and Main House

Rebuilt in 1936 after a fire, this shop and home at a Komatsu sake brewery keeps an earthen-floored front, a family oi room and 4 grid rooms with carved transoms.

Higashi Brewery Tool Storehouse
Ishikawa 昭和中
Higashi Brewery Tool Storehouse

A 1948 stone-faced tool storehouse at a Komatsu sake brewery, with Western arches over its openings and a dragon and tiger carved between its stacked windows.

Higashi Brewery Middle Storehouse
Ishikawa 昭和中
Higashi Brewery Middle Storehouse

A 1949 timber-framed sake storehouse in Komatsu clad in local Kanagaso stone, 19 m long, with a simplified eave band and a keystoned arch over its doorway.