Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Kagawa

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.

Discover Miroku Sekketsu, a 189-meter tunnel hand-carved through solid rock in 1857 to bring water to Miroku Pond in Sanuki City, Kagawa. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property showcasing Edo-era engineering ingenuity.

Built in 1908 above Shodoshima's soy sauce village, this 111 sq m timber gatehouse hides its opening inside the east lean-to and carries two round windows.

Completed in 1922 on a footprint of just 27 sq m, this two-storey annex wears a steep gable of green French pantiles and is a landmark in its Shodoshima hamlet.

In Mure, Takamatsu, a brick chimney about eighteen meters tall stands by the road to Yakuriji temple, its south face still bearing the Genji Masamune brewery name.

Once a store for the Yamada family's Genji Masamune sake, this plain late-Taisho timber storehouse near Yakuriji temple now serves as a dining room for a udon restaurant.

On the old approach to Yakuriji temple, a hall barely two square meters shelters two stone Jizo figures inscribed 1729 and 1765, marking devotion on the pilgrim path.

At the center of the Yamada estate near Yakuriji temple, this large timber house of former headmen turned sake brewers now serves as the Yamada-ya udon restaurant.

At the entrance to the Yamada estate, a three-meter stone lantern of the late Edo period once guided pilgrims toward Yakuriji temple, carved with its donor's name.

At the head of the estate drive, the Yamada nagayamon is a long late-Edo gatehouse fourteen bays wide, its openings aligned with the two entrances of the house behind.

Near the guest rooms of the Yamada house, a garden gate barely a meter wide is roofed with bold arched tiles, an early-Showa accent between the south and west gardens.

East of the gatehouse, the Yamada south storehouse shows its white-plastered gable to the road, a late-Taisho earthen storehouse built for sake, now a udon dining room.

Built in 1932 when the Yamahisa brewery was founded, this cedar-clad warehouse in Yasuda on Shodoshima carries the firm's mark on its gable. Registered in 2003.

A wooden soy sauce warehouse in Yasuda on Shodoshima, built in 1900 and re-erected on this site in 1949. Cedar-clad, still brewing, registered in 2003.

A two-storey retirement house of 1913 on a soy sauce brewing lot at Obe, Shodoshima, with a railed low window wrapping its northwest corner. Registered in 2004.

An earthen-walled storehouse of 1938 at Obe, Shodoshima, its west gable marked with the family crest and its north pent roof on curved brackets. Registered 2004.

Built in 1907 by Obe Port on Shodoshima, this soy sauce mash warehouse has a trapezoidal plan and a king-post truss roof. Registered in 2004 and still in use.

A 1926 Western-style clinic on the main street of Tadotsu, Kagawa, registered in 2002. Mortar render, a stone-faced base and a tall parapet hide its timber frame.

Two 1888 buildings east of the mash warehouse at Noma on Shodoshima, where koji and brine were mixed and matured mash was pressed, both vented by monitor roofs.

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