Meiji
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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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.