Shōwa
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Kenzo Tange completed this Takamatsu government office in 1958, recasting the columns and beams of Japanese tradition in concrete over an open civic piloti.
Five arches on six buttresses, raised in 1929 by the Kagawa farmers who would drink the water. This concrete irrigation dam still works, and admission is free.
A c.1931 townhouse facing the old Konpira road in Takamatsu, Kagawa: black plaster over white tile, stepped copper eaves and a gabled porch. Registered 2005.
A c.1931 two-storey clay-walled storehouse in Takamatsu, Kagawa, once used for bottling sake: five bays long and 48 square metres, finished to match its neighbour.
A c.1931 four-and-a-half-mat sukiya pavilion in the courtyard of a Takamatsu townhouse, with a half-gabled, half-hipped roof, giboshi railings and a drum bridge.
A c.1931 two-storey clay-walled sake storehouse in Takamatsu, Kagawa, part of a townhouse's street front: high namako tiling, white plaster and a thick eaves band.
The Middle Sake Storehouse at Ayagiku Sake Brewery in Ayagawa, Kagawa, is an early Showa earthen storehouse 34 m long, with a plaster brand name on its gable.
The Detached Tatami Room at Ayagiku Sake Brewery in Ayagawa, Kagawa, is an early Showa nine-mat guest room whose hipped roof drops a step on the south side.
The West Sake Storehouse at Ayagiku Sake Brewery in Ayagawa, Kagawa, is a 1950 timber hall with a red-tiled south section and a board-clad west face on the highway.
Timber house of 1930 in Zentsuji, Kagawa, with a small mortar-finished Western wing beside the entrance of a Japanese home; a fine example of the type.
Early Showa roofed board fences framing a Sakaide salt family's entrance: 2.6 metres high, 41 metres long, with battened boards and a paired diagonal lattice on top.
Built in 1931 at Ubushina Shrine in Utazu, Kagawa, this 162 sq m office takes a central-corridor house plan and carries a formal tiled entrance porch at one end.
Built in 1941 at Ubushina Shrine in Utazu, Kagawa, this 19 sq m hall for ritual food offerings pairs the simplest bracketing with a finely dressed cut-stone plinth.
Built in 1935 at Ubushina Shrine in Utazu, Kagawa, this 1.8 sq m sanctuary for the war dead keeps balustrade, veranda, stair and packed brackets at miniature scale.
Ubushina Shrine Main Hall in Utazu, Kagawa, was raised at Ise in 1953 as the Takanomiya sanctuary and moved here in 1976: a 22 sq m shinmei hall on buried posts.
Built in 1934 at Ubushina Shrine in Utazu, Kagawa, this 67 sq m registered hall puts a gabled offering room behind the worship hall, dragon and phoenix at the door.
Built in 1934 in Utazu, Kagawa, this 6.2 sq m salt-deity sanctuary at Ubushina Shrine layers two gables over packed bracketing, and is listed as a model of design.
Built around 1934 at Ubushina Shrine in Utazu, Kagawa, this 9.6-metre earthen storehouse for festival palanquins sets black render below white plaster, tiled above.
The No. 5 warehouse at Kamebishi in Hikita, Kagawa is an early-Showa moromi store whose red-ochre street walls carry the brewery's palette across the road.
The No. 3 warehouse at Kamebishi in Hikita, Kagawa now stores moromi, but a raised roof monitor for venting heat points to its origins as a boiler room.