Shōwa
Wakayama · 昭和Browse Wakayama’s cultural heritage from the Shōwa period (1926 – 1989). Filter by type and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.
A single-storey guest wing in Gobo, Wakayama, with its own entrance and kitchen, cypress rooms of 12.5 and 10 mats, a fan-carved transom and a tea room of 1959-60.
A gently curving 20-metre cut-stone wall of the early Showa years, laid in 4 courses with plum-crest motifs, edging a shrine family's homestead in Wakayama.
A 1937 gate, 3 bays and 4.0 m wide, roofed in cedar bark, framing the front of a shrine family's homestead in rural Wakayama. Registered 2013; seen from the lane.
A 1937 roofed wall, 22 metres in all, of black plaster with crisp white edging above vertical boarding, flanking the gate of a shrine family's homestead in Wakayama.
A two-storey timber annex of about 1953 on the Sono estate in Gobo, with pantiled roof and board walls; its upstairs window looks to the river. Registered in 2024.
Rebuilt in 1953, the Entrance Building of the former Tajima lacquer refinery in Kainan pairs a washed-mortar base and yellow render with an exposed steel truss.
This early Showa wooden wing at the former Tajima lacquer works in Kainan holds 2 dining rooms, a kitchen and a bath beside an earthen passage to the workshop.
Built in 1934, this 2-story clay-walled kura in Kainan kept costly raw lacquer safe from summer spoilage, with high iron-shuttered windows and a king post truss.
Raised in 1927, this brick hall in Kainan is where refined lacquer was packed into barrels; in 1958 its termite-hit sawtooth roof became riveted steel trusses.
At 867 metres, this 1928 timber station is Koyasan's rail gateway: early-Showa round windows under a pyramidal roof topped by a sacred jewel, restored in 2015.
Built around 1929 by a Kishu lacquerware dealer, this two-story house in black lime plaster stands in Kainan's Funao district near the Kuroe lacquer town. Registered 2019.
A 26-meter concrete wall and set-back gate in washed-out mortar enclose the garden of the 1929 Hatada residence in Kainan, a modern corner-lot estate. Registered 2019.
In Iwade, Wakayama, the Fukuda Residence inner wall is black-plastered on the approach side and white on the garden side, an early Shōwa Registered Cultural Property.
A single-bay yakuimon in Iwade, Wakayama, the Fukuda Family Residence Gate was rebuilt in 1950 from timber salvaged when the older gate burned. Now registered.
Completed in 1927 at Hirai in Kozagawa, Wakayama, this H-plan timber building was drawn in Sapporo for Hokkaido University's only forest outside Hokkaido.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.