Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

An early Meiji barn in Takamatsu where a goshi family matured liquid fertilizer in three big jars: blind plastered wall to the road, open to the yard. Seen outside.

A c.1902 guest bath and lavatory at a goshi estate in Takamatsu: log framing, an iron-tube tub, a celadon toilet and round lattice windows. Not open to the public.

Timber shop of 1901 of a sake brewer in Zentsuji, Kagawa, its black-plastered upper floor painted with the name of Gogaku sake, with a bowed roof and plaster relief.

Timber koji room of the early Taisho period at a soy sauce brewery at Obe on Shodoshima, Kagawa, with double walls, a bamboo-slat ceiling and high vent windows.

Twin timber brewing storehouses of the early Meiji period at a soy sauce brewery at Obe on Shodoshima, Kagawa, the core of the works, with slatted upper windows.

Timber pressing shed of the early Taisho period at a soy sauce brewery at Obe on Shodoshima, Kagawa, with a former boiler room and a row of slatted iwaku-mado.

Hip-and-gable tiled gatehouse of 1896 on a hillside estate at Nishibun, Ayagawa, Kagawa, with a servants' room, stable and storeroom; a private home, not open.

Brick main gate of 1922 of a former girls' school in Zentsuji, Kagawa, built to mark the Army grand manoeuvres, with brick piers on granite bases and granite caps.

Reinforced-concrete library of 1922 in Sakaide, Kagawa, built by Takenaka Komuten for the Kamada Kyosaikai foundation; an early full-scale concrete library.

The Red Gate at Kamebishi in Hikita, Kagawa is a hipped-and-gabled gate abutting the No. 13 store; painted red ochre, it was remade from an 1843 row gate.

Kamebishi's pressing house in Hikita, Kagawa was once a merchant home; this early-Meiji building now presses fermented moromi into raw soy sauce.

The No. 1 warehouse at Kamebishi in Hikita, Kagawa is a late-Meiji store that once held soybeans; its namako-kabe base and red-ochre walls shape the street.

The former No. 4 and No. 6 warehouses at Kamebishi in Hikita, Kagawa are an early-Meiji pair meeting at a right angle, likely once a wholesaler's buildings.

Kamebishi's warehouse in Hikita, Kagawa is a two-story earthen store on granite footings, its west gable bearing the founding Okada family's oak-leaf crest.

The No. 5 warehouse at Kamebishi in Hikita, Kagawa is an early-Showa moromi store whose red-ochre street walls carry the brewery's palette across the road.

Kamebishi's workshop in Hikita, Kagawa is a late-Taisho building, two stories with a three-story end that once pasteurized soy sauce; it is the tallest here.

The No. 3 warehouse at Kamebishi in Hikita, Kagawa now stores moromi, but a raised roof monitor for venting heat points to its origins as a boiler room.

Kamebishi's 24-meter koji house in Hikita, Kagawa holds five mezzanine chambers built for the mushiro-koji method the brewery alone still keeps in Japan.

Once a detached parlor, Kamebishi's storeroom in Hikita, Kagawa is an early-Meiji building whose formal tiled roof marks the residential heart of the compound.

Kamebishi's former main house in Hikita, Kagawa, built in 1780, is now its office, shop and exhibition, and the largest of the brewery's 18 registered buildings.

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