Shōwa
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The 1930 front gate and 9.6-metre fence of the Nagasaki Family Residence in Hiketa, Kagawa: clapboard, lime plaster, bamboo lattice and a line of ichimonji tiles.
The 1930 reception wing of the Nagasaki Family Residence in Hiketa, Kagawa: two eight-mat rooms, a hip-and-gable porch and finely made transoms, built for guests.
The Nagasaki Family Residence Guest Lavatory in Hiketa, Kagawa: a 1930 toilet and bath for guests, joined to the reception wing, with an alcove in its dressing room.
The Nagasaki Family Residence Main House in Hiketa, Kagawa, built in 1930: timber lattice below, lime plaster to the eaves above, fine trowel work at each window.
The 1930 earthen wall of the Nagasaki Family Residence in Hiketa, Kagawa: 18 metres of mortar on a dressed stone base along a side lane, a foil to the front fence.
The granite torii of Nogi Shrine in Zentsuji, Kagawa, built in 1937, is a shinmei type of straight members, its tie beam held within the pillars to match the hall.
The worship hall of Nogi Shrine in Zentsuji, Kagawa, built in 1937, adds a front gable and an offering hall yet keeps the straight lines of its shinmei main hall.
The main hall of Nogi Shrine in Zentsuji, Kagawa, built in 1937, is a three-bay shinmei-style hall of bare timber with ridge posts, a copper roof and a railing.
Early Showa wooden signboard building near Marugame Station, Kagawa, a former clinic with a mortar front of pilasters, a central entrance and gable ornament.
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 1935 residential block of a merchant compound in Mitoyo, Kagawa, attached behind the family's Western-style shop. Plainly finished, with a latticed gable end.
A 1932 storehouse and workshop at a Kotohira soy sauce and miso brewery, roofed on timber king post trusses, with a former rice store and a koji room inside.
The Yamasan Soy Sauce Washing Area on Shodoshima is a pair of Showa-era granite wells and paved washing floors where soy sauce ingredients were cleaned. Listed 2002.
The Yamasan Soy Sauce Koji-Making Nagayamon Gate and Barn on Shodoshima is an early Showa gatehouse with a koji room, visible from the road. Listed 2006.
The Yamasan Soy Sauce Western-Style House on Shodoshima is a one-room early Showa house with Spanish tiles and tall windows, moved in 1959 and listed in 2003.
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.
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.
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.
The chozuya of Nogi Shrine in Zentsuji, Kagawa, built in 1937, is a copper-roofed pavilion whose posts, paired braces and tie beams form a constructivist frame.