Shōwa

Shiga · 昭和

Browse Shiga’s cultural heritage from the Shōwa period (1926 – 1989). Filter by type and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.

171 total Shiga Shōwa Period 1926 – 1989
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Omi Shrine Back Gate
Shiga 昭和前
Omi Shrine Back Gate

Omi Shrine Back Gate stands 2.7 metres wide behind the sanctuary. Latticed doors merge it into the fence; only its raised, curved roof marks it as a gate.

Omi Shrine Saikan
Shiga 昭和前
Omi Shrine Saikan

Omi Shrine Saikan is the only building here set off the precinct's axis, turned some 30 degrees, with an eight-mat room and a ten-mat shoin room inside.

Omi Shrine Saikan Entrance
Shiga 昭和前
Omi Shrine Saikan Entrance

Omi Shrine Saikan Entrance is a back door with a composed front: four tall panelled doors under a finely barred transom, tiled, covering 27 square metres.

Omi Shrine Assembly Hall
Shiga 昭和前
Omi Shrine Assembly Hall

Omi Shrine Assembly Hall of 1944 runs north from a bluff beside the Kagura Hall, its four ten-mat rooms opened into a single space behind a run of bay windows.

Omi Shrine Assembly Hall Entrance
Shiga 昭和前
Omi Shrine Assembly Hall Entrance

Built in 1944 at Omi Jingu in Otsu, this 101-square-metre entrance block sets a dormer gable over its carriage porch. Registered in 1998; exterior viewable.

Omi Shrine Assembly Hall Corridor
Shiga 昭和前
Omi Shrine Assembly Hall Corridor

This twelve-square-metre covered stair at Omi Jingu, built in 1944, is the only corridor there given a fire door and a tile-capped fire wall. Registered 1998.

Omi Shrine Visitors' Rest Area
Shiga 昭和前
Omi Shrine Visitors' Rest Area

A 1944 rest house at Omi Jingu in Otsu, framed with round posts and bracket arms under a tiled roof. Now a sweets shop, it is the one visitors may enter.

Omi Shrine Office I
Shiga 昭和前
Omi Shrine Office I

The east and south wings of the 1940 shrine office at Omi Jingu in Otsu, 246 square metres. A curved gable marks the guest entrance, a lower ridge the everyday door.

Omi Shrine Office II
Shiga 昭和前
Omi Shrine Office II

The tiled north and west wings of the 1940 shrine office at Omi Jingu in Otsu, 175 square metres. A dormer gable on the west face vents steam from the bath below.

Omi Shrine Lodgings
Shiga 昭和前
Omi Shrine Lodgings

A 1944 watch house of 39 square metres at Omi Jingu, made by closing one bay of the outer colonnade. Small gable-end eaves separate it from its twin across the gate.

Omi Shrine Treasure House
Shiga 昭和前
Omi Shrine Treasure House

The smallest registered building at Omi Jingu: an eight-square-metre raised-floor storehouse of 1940, roofed in cypress bark like the sanctuary it stands behind.

Omi Shrine Offering Hall
Shiga 昭和前
Omi Shrine Offering Hall

The 1940 hall at Omi Jingu in Otsu where food offerings are prepared, 53 square metres, with entrances north and south so the work can flow in one direction.

Omi Shrine Shinsensho Toro
Shiga 昭和前
Omi Shrine Shinsensho Toro

A nine-square-metre covered stair of 1944 at Omi Jingu in Otsu, gabled where it meets buildings and single-sloped over the steps between them. Registered in 1998.

Omi Shrine Talisman Granting Office
Shiga 昭和前
Omi Shrine Talisman Granting Office

The 1944 amulet office at Omi Jingu in Otsu, 39 square metres, attached to the tower gate. Square and round posts are used by position, with boat brackets above.

Omi Shrine Lattice Wall (south)
Shiga 昭和前
Omi Shrine Lattice Wall (south)

A 36-metre slatted fence of 1940 enclosing the innermost court at Omi Jingu in Otsu. Its diagonal braces are reinforced concrete and date from the original build.

Omi Shrine Lattice Wall (northern Part)
Shiga 昭和前
Omi Shrine Lattice Wall (northern Part)

A 36-metre slatted fence of 1940 at Omi Jingu in Otsu. From the fifth bay westward its small roof steps up one level to follow the fall of the sloping ground.

Omi Shrine Outer Corridor (southern Part)
Shiga 昭和前
Omi Shrine Outer Corridor (southern Part)

The south arm of the 1944 outer colonnade at Omi Jingu in Otsu. Once as long as the north arm, only three bays survive, yet the outer court still depends on them.

Omi Shrine Outer Corridor (northern Part)
Shiga 昭和前
Omi Shrine Outer Corridor (northern Part)

The full-length north arm of the 1944 outer colonnade at Omi Jingu in Otsu, 60 square metres. Round posts carry an open roof above a raised and railed veranda.

Omi Shrine Outer Wall (south Part)
Shiga 昭和前
Omi Shrine Outer Wall (south Part)

A five-bay roofed lattice fence of 1944 running to the north gate at Omi Jingu in Otsu. Square posts on a sill carry balance-arm brackets under a copper roof.

Omi Shrine Outer Lattice Wall (northern Part)
Shiga 昭和前
Omi Shrine Outer Lattice Wall (northern Part)

An eight-metre roofed lattice fence of 1944 at Omi Jingu. Its vermilion and white finish marks where the second building campaign meets the bare timber of the first.