Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Built around 1890 for a Sakaide salt family and enlarged about 1932, this 283 m² hip-and-gable house mixes Japanese and Western rooms. Registered 2019; private.

A late Meiji two-storey wing of formal rooms behind a Sakaide salt family's house, with polished log posts, ebony trim and mist-pattern transoms on both floors.

A two-storey clay-walled storehouse of about 1911 in a Sakaide salt family's courtyard: white plaster, namako tiles at base and corners, and a Western roof truss.

Late Meiji plastered earthen walls flanking a Sakaide salt family's gate: 2.4 metres high and 47 metres long, on stone bases, with hachiso motifs at the corners.

Built in 1818 at Ubushina Shrine in Utazu, Kagawa, this 110 sq m hall sets four rooms in a grid and survives as a trace of the temple that once shared the precincts.

Built in mid-Meiji Japan at Ubushina Shrine in Utazu, Kagawa, this 27 sq m two-storey earthen storehouse hides a Western roof truss behind tiled gables and plaster.

Built in 1931 at Ubushina Shrine in Utazu, Kagawa, this 162 sq m office takes a central-corridor house plan and carries a formal tiled entrance porch at one end.

Built in 1941 at Ubushina Shrine in Utazu, Kagawa, this 19 sq m hall for ritual food offerings pairs the simplest bracketing with a finely dressed cut-stone plinth.

Built in 1935 at Ubushina Shrine in Utazu, Kagawa, this 1.8 sq m sanctuary for the war dead keeps balustrade, veranda, stair and packed brackets at miniature scale.

Ubushina Shrine Main Hall in Utazu, Kagawa, was raised at Ise in 1953 as the Takanomiya sanctuary and moved here in 1976: a 22 sq m shinmei hall on buried posts.

Raised in 1874 at Ubushina Shrine in Utazu, Kagawa, this 37 sq m tiled hall omits bracketing across its body and gathers all carving, a wave motif, at the canopy.

Built in 1934 at Ubushina Shrine in Utazu, Kagawa, this 67 sq m registered hall puts a gabled offering room behind the worship hall, dragon and phoenix at the door.

Built in 1934 in Utazu, Kagawa, this 6.2 sq m salt-deity sanctuary at Ubushina Shrine layers two gables over packed bracketing, and is listed as a model of design.

Built around 1934 at Ubushina Shrine in Utazu, Kagawa, this 9.6-metre earthen storehouse for festival palanquins sets black render below white plaster, tiled above.

A late Edo goshi house in Takamatsu: a vast shihobuta thatched roof under temporary copper, a formal entrance, 11 rooms and a room for attendants. Private home.

An early Meiji firewood barn at the corner of a goshi estate in Takamatsu: 16.4 m long, a windowless storehouse-built wall to the road, open within. Seen outside.

A mid Meiji gate and wall dividing the entry court from the garden of a goshi estate in Takamatsu: a yakuimon gate, white plaster one side, black the other.

An early Meiji two-storey storehouse on a goshi estate in Takamatsu: rice store east, utensil store west, and an upper floor with mesh windows and gapped boards.

A late Edo earthen wall, 262 m long, around a goshi estate in Takamatsu: white plaster on stone, dressed on the street side, packed by the moat, curving at a corner.

A late Edo gatehouse fronting a goshi estate in Takamatsu: 26.3 m long, hip-and-gable tiled roof, high latticed windows, a reputed carpenter's room. Seen from road.

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