Shōwa
Yamagata · 昭和Browse Yamagata’s cultural heritage from the Shōwa period (1926 – 1989). Filter by type and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.
The youngest of five Nagai merchant storehouses, this early Showa timber store stands beside a late Edo kura, its west window canopy set on a geometric iron bracket.
Concrete cocoon warehouse of 1927 in Miyauchi, Nan'yo, Yamagata, the largest of three on the site, recalling the silk trade; now the Kurara community hall.
A 1929 hip-and-gable household shrine in the courtyard of a Yonezawa sake brewery: porch roof, coffered ceiling, 6.9 square metres, registered as a model of form.
City hall of 1967 in Sagae, Yamagata, an early work by Kurokawa Kisho with upper floors hung from four cores and an Okamoto Taro sculpture; still in use today.
A 1927 mortared stone dam on the Minamisawa ravine of the Shohoji River in Tendo, 24 m long and 3.0 m high, one of a row of dams all built about 10 shaku tall.
A 1927 mortared stone dam on the Minamisawa ravine of the Shohoji River in Tendo, 26 m long and 3.0 m high; from here downstream the spillway notches are made wider.
A 1927 mortared stone dam at the foot of the Minamisawa ravine of the Shohoji River in Tendo, 31 m long, set on a concrete levelling course poured over bedrock.
Seba Sabo Dam of 1953 crosses the Tatsuyazawa River in Shonai Town, Yamagata: a 193-metre wall of hand-laid cobblestone concrete that drops water in four stages.
A gate and wall of c.1934 fronting a farmhouse in Jinba, Yamagata City: a 4.3-metre bracket-arm gate and 68 metres of plaster-and-board wall; registered in 2008.
The Rear Gate and Tamagaki Fence at Fukura Kuchinomiya, Chokaisan Omonoimi Shrine: a 51 m fence and simple arm-supported gate of 1939. Registered in 2012.
The Middle Gate and Corridors at Fukura Kuchinomiya, Chokaisan Omonoimi Shrine: a plain 1939 gate whose corridor ends hold offering rooms. Registered in 2012.
The Worship Hall and Ascending Corridor at Fukura Kuchinomiya: a restrained hall above 100 steps, linked by a roofed stairway to the sanctuary. Registered in 2012.
Timber school of 1933 in Nagai, Yamagata, 93 metres long in the Stick Style with a symmetrical front; a school until 2015, reopened in 2019 as a community hub.
The annex of the New Murao Romankan inn at Kaminoyama in Yamagata, built in 1937, sets five pavilions around a pond, their rich interiors recalling the spa's heyday.
The main hall of Myozenji in Yamagata, designed by Ito Chuta in 1934, has bell and drum towers flanking its front and a 60-mat great hall inside, showing his style.
Yoshitei Mon in Yonezawa, Yamagata, is a zelkova gate of 1940 on the old Aizu road. Registered in 2003, this single-bay yakuimon spans about 2.6 metres in width.
Rebuilt in 1935 after a fire, this two-story wooden schoolhouse in Yonezawa still holds classes, its half-timber walls facing the approach to Uesugi Shrine.
On Mount Chokai stands Ryuzuji's plain 1933 founder's hall, registered in 2015, its clapboard shell hiding a lacquered interior and trowel-worked plaster reliefs.
In Yamagata's Kaminoyama Onsen, the 1939 Ryokan Yonemoto blends Doric pilasters, round upper windows, and a tiled gabled entrance into an eclectic registered facade.
A 1952 cobblestone dam on Yamagata's Tachiyazawa River, trapping sediment off Mount Gassan. Its stonework and curved spillway became a cultural property in 2017.