Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Kagawa

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.

Discover Henkotsuya Shop, a Meiji-era registered tangible cultural property in Kotohira, Kagawa. This two-story wooden machiya near Kotohira-gu Shrine features exquisite ajiro-woven vault ceilings, rare woods, and connections to Bakumatsu-era history.

Discover Hogetsudo South Building, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Marugame, Kagawa. This early Showa-era confectionery shop uniquely fuses Spanish tile Western facades with traditional machiya design and houses an active wagashi shop founded in 1917.

Discover Hori Family Clock Shop, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Marugame, Kagawa. This early Shōwa-period kanban-style building features a Western-inspired mortar facade with gable ornaments, originally built as a clinic and now a beloved local landmark near Marugame Castle.

Discover the Matsudaira Yorikane Mausoleum at Hongyoji Temple in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture—a registered tangible cultural property featuring a rare composite shrine-style warrior mausoleum from the Meiji era.

A 13-metre tiled earthen wall and a 1.4-metre gate dividing the front court from the inner garden of a triangular estate in Mure, Takamatsu. Registered in 2006.

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.

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