Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The central hall of 1936 at Zentsuji Tanjoin in Kagawa, 554 square metres, with two crossing gabled roofs and the ticket desk for the dark passage inside.

A wall-less corridor of 1915 across the forecourt of the Mieido Hall at Zentsuji Tanjoin in Kagawa, carved with dragons and beast heads. Registered in 2010.

A two-storey plastered storehouse of the Taisho period at Zentsuji Tanjoin in Kagawa, 25 square metres, plain-walled on a high stone base. Registered in 2010.

Small shrine of 1914 north-east of the Main Hall at Zentsuji in Kagawa, a single-bay nagare-style building on a stone base, enclosed by a stone fence with a torii.

Late Edo two-storey gate at Zentsuji in Kagawa, facing the Shakado Hall, with dragons and cranes carved below and an open upper storey under curved eaves.

Timber gate of about 1908 facing the Main Hall of Zentsuji in Kagawa, a flat karamon 7.6 metres wide with cusped gables and side walls, the temple's main entrance.

Small shrine of 1808 on a pond islet at Zentsuji in Kagawa, a single-bay nagare-style building altered in 1861, with cloud and wave carvings suited to rain prayers.

A late Edo farmhouse in Yasuda on Shodoshima, built in the eastern Shikoku shihobuta form with a gabled core ringed by pent roofs on all four sides. Registered 2004.

A mid-Meiji brewing hall in Yasuda, Shodoshima. Its ridge runs 22 metres, and combined wagoya and noboribari framing lifts the ceiling above the cedar vats.

The smallest of six registered buildings on a Shodoshima soy sauce estate, this two-storey earthen storehouse anchors the rear corner of the yard with its side gate.

A late-Meiji retirement wing in Mitoyo, Kagawa, later used for tea classes, with long low eaves and Mount Fuji transoms. Registered in 2021 for its fine carpentry.

An early-Meiji farmhouse at the heart of the Tottori compound in Mitoyo, Kagawa: a thatched roof ringed by tile in the local shihoubuta style. Registered in 2021.

An early-Showa greenhouse in Mitoyo, Kagawa, built of clay and tile rather than glass, where a village mayor grew aoi plants and kept songbirds. Registered in 2021.

An 1894 rice store in Mitoyo, Kagawa, with white plaster walls, fanned rafters and a bamboo-and-earth ceiling. Registered in 2021; now used as a fitness studio.

A two-storey Showa reception wing with a Western annex, built by a village mayor in Mitoyo, Kagawa, and registered in 2021. It now runs as the Kachoen guesthouse.

A two-storey clay-walled storehouse of 1906 in Mitoyo, Kagawa, with a rough-timber lean-to and ornamental ridge tiles. Registered in 2021 as the anchor of the yard.

A two-storey late-Meiji tool barn in Mitoyo, Kagawa, with clay walls and an open roof frame of stacked beams and bamboo. Registered in 2021 for its role in the view.

An early-Showa garden gate in Mitoyo, Kagawa, with woven ajiro doors and bamboo fences on blue stone, in the spirit of a tea garden. Registered in 2021.

A two-storey barn of 1894 in Mitoyo, Kagawa, still under its original heavy hongawara tiles, with sliding-slat windows and a copper-mesh door. Registered in 2021.

An early-Showa garden gate dividing the courtyard of the Tottori compound in Mitoyo, Kagawa, with paired rafters and slatted earthen side walls. Registered in 2021.

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