Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The Masui Family Residence Main House in Takamatsu, built in 1907, keeps a castle-town townhouse front: latticed bay window, black plaster, insect-cage window.

The oldest building on its Takamatsu lot, the late Edo Masui Family Residence Shoin runs 15 metres along the street and holds a formal ten-mat reception room.

Built in 1912, the Masui Family Residence Tea House in Takamatsu lines up eight-mat, four-mat and preparation rooms beside the four-mat Unmon-an tea room.

An early Meiji gatehouse at a headman's residence in Sakaide, Kagawa, registered in 2004. Its front carries namako-kabe tiling and wave-moulded plaster eaves.

Built in 1916 for the Shiota salt merchants of Nio, Kagawa, this registered house sets its stair at the centre of the plan and fans Zen-temple rafters overhead.

This late-Meiji wing gives the Matsugaya compound in Nio, Kagawa its street face: a lattice bay, a grey plaster loft with barred window, a tea room by the door.

A late-Meiji storehouse in Nio, Kagawa saving its finest plasterwork for the courtyard side: black walls, namako tiling in interlocking circles, a curved ridge beam.

The main house of the Manabe Family Residence in Takamatsu, completed in 1901. A large single-story home with a coffered altar room marking a landholding family's rank.

The tea room of the Manabe Family Residence, built around 1914 as the estate's last addition. Two rooms at right angles, its plastered wall joining the estate boundary.

The storehouse of the Manabe Family Residence, a two-story earthen dozo built in 1905. Its north half held tools and its south half rice, on a raised-beam roof structure.

The earthen wall of the Manabe Family Residence, about 44 meters long, built around 1882 on a stone base beside a water channel, shaping the local streetscape.

The middle gate and fence of the Manabe Family Residence, built in 1908: a zelkova gate with a black-plaster, lattice-windowed fence guiding guests into the inner garden.

The nagayamon gatehouse of the Manabe Family Residence spans the south front, eleven bays wide. Relocated around 1882, its plaster and namako base symbolize the estate.

The barn and wall of the Manabe Family Residence stand at the estate's north edge. Built around 1875 with a back gate, on a stone base beside a water channel.

The detached quarters of the Manabe Family Residence, its oldest surviving building, stand behind the main house. Built around 1875, remodeled in 1926.

The east gate of the Manabe Family Residence stands beside the nagayamon. Built in middle Meiji, it holds a three-mat menservants' room, its wall doubling as a barn.

A 16-metre wall at the rear of a merchant compound in Mitoyo, Kagawa, closing the gap between house and storehouse, its roof carried down inside as a lean-to.

The 27-metre street wall of a merchant compound in Mitoyo, Kagawa. Plastered on the road side, left at the undercoat within, with a door on its raised north end.

A late Taisho yakuimon gate in Mitoyo, Kagawa, with fanned rafters, a coffered ceiling and zelkova door panels. Registered in 2022 for its exemplary design.

The two-storey heart of a merchant compound in Mitoyo, Kagawa. Built between 1919 and 1926, with a formal ground floor and an open upper room ringed by a balustrade.