Taishō
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A small 1915 earthen storehouse on the Ishii estate in Noma, Shodoshima: charred cedar, namako plaster and white eaves on a stone base, registered as hard to copy.
The 1915 gatehouse of the Ishii estate in Noma, Shodoshima runs 17 metres by the main house, skirt roofs giving a half-loft look, called the core of the estate.
The 1917 office of the Goten waterworks in Takamatsu, Kagawa, L-shaped and timber-built with an arched porch gable, now in the free water museum. Registered 1997.
Taisho-era moromi storehouse 80 metres long at the Kinryo brewery on Shodoshima, Kagawa, its long boarded and plastered north wall lining the Umaki River road.
Taisho-era storehouse at the Kinryo brewery on Shodoshima, once the koji mixing and machine rooms, with a long raised roof on king-post trusses; now partly a shop.
House of about 1918 of the Fujii family, owners of the Kinryo soy sauce brewery on Shodoshima, with a projecting porch, ten-mat reception room and counting room.
Storehouse of 1918 of the Fujii family at the Kinryo brewery on Shodoshima, a two-storey tiled store on a trapezoidal plan with plaster relief on its window hood.
Walls of about 1918 and 1929 round the Fujii house at the Kinryo brewery on Shodoshima, 42 metres long: an earthen wall to the south and a brick wall by the road.
Just south of the main building and facing west, this gabled tile-roofed hall began as Passenger Shelter No.3 for group travellers, later walled in as a display space.
Built in 1922 as the gateway for pilgrims to Konpira Shrine, this wooden station keeps a gabled porch, half-round windows and circular maru-kin emblems on its eaves.
Facing the main building across the tracks, this 127-metre timber canopy shelters the island platform, its pinching-beam trusses once the largest such shelter in Kagawa.
Running parallel to the main building, this 108-metre canopy leans its south half onto the depot roof and uses king-post trusses, paired with Shelter No.1.
Timber canopy of about 1922 over Platform 1 at JR Zentsuji Station, Kagawa, its braced posts and widened span set into the station building so that both read as one.
Steel footbridge of about 1922 at JR Zentsuji Station, Kagawa, its Pratt truss girders made of 1889 Barrow Steel rails and clad in boards to match the canopies.
Timber canopy of about 1922 over Platform 2 at JR Zentsuji Station, Kagawa, with square posts at regular intervals and king-post trusses recalling early railways.
Timber station building in Zentsuji, Kagawa, opened in 1889 on the Sanuki Railway and rebuilt in 1922 with a half-timbered porch; it still serves trains today.
The Shioda Family Residence Main House and Detached Parlor on Shodoshima is the 1914 home of the Yamasan brewers, finished in polished black plaster. Listed 2003.
A 1923 timber shop-house in Marugame's Hamamachi arcade. Its upper wall combines black lime plaster with black glazed tile, a finish seen in only two Kagawa towns.
The Shimizu Shrine Hall on Teshima in Kagawa, built in 1913 beside the Karato spring, is a small cedar-boarded hall with a hip-and-gable front and stone altar.
Plastered sake shop of 1917 on the station road in Zentsuji, Kagawa, with mushiko windows and a long tiled roof, known for Shidan-ichi sake named after General Nogi.