Taishō
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Sake storehouse of 1917 beside the Segawa shop in Zentsuji, Kagawa, its gable with a namako-tile dado facing the station road, keeping the look of an old shop.
A wall-less corridor of 1915 across the forecourt of the Mieido Hall at Zentsuji Tanjoin in Kagawa, carved with dragons and beast heads. Registered in 2010.
A two-storey plastered storehouse of the Taisho period at Zentsuji Tanjoin in Kagawa, 25 square metres, plain-walled on a high stone base. Registered in 2010.
Small shrine of 1914 north-east of the Main Hall at Zentsuji in Kagawa, a single-bay nagare-style building on a stone base, enclosed by a stone fence with a torii.
Wooden shop building of 1918 in Marugame, Kagawa, its north half Western with glazed tiles and Spanish roof tiles, its south half a townhouse, with a tea room.
Built in 1916 for the Shiota salt merchants of Nio, Kagawa, this registered house sets its stair at the centre of the plan and fans Zen-temple rafters overhead.
The tea room of the Manabe Family Residence, built around 1914 as the estate's last addition. Two rooms at right angles, its plastered wall joining the estate boundary.
The 27-metre street wall of a merchant compound in Mitoyo, Kagawa. Plastered on the road side, left at the undercoat within, with a door on its raised north end.
A late Taisho yakuimon gate in Mitoyo, Kagawa, with fanned rafters, a coffered ceiling and zelkova door panels. Registered in 2022 for its exemplary design.
The two-storey heart of a merchant compound in Mitoyo, Kagawa. Built between 1919 and 1926, with a formal ground floor and an open upper room ringed by a balustrade.
A late Taisho single-storey entrance hall in Mitoyo, Kagawa, in the sukiya manner, with a dormer-gabled entrance platform and a rare pre-carved alcove post inside.
A middle Taisho-era storehouse at a Kotohira brewery, built for soy sauce mash: two gabled stores side by side, one on a Japanese frame, one on a Western truss.
A two-story plastered town house of the early Taisho era on Kotohira's Higashinaka street, with black plaster, two white-framed mushiko windows and the brewery shop.
The Yamasan Soy Sauce Barrel Shed on Shodoshima is a mid-Taisho work building with a rhombus-shaped plan and a two-tiered roof on its south side. Listed 2003.
The Yamasan Soy Sauce Rice Storehouse on Shodoshima is a mid-Taisho store with a canopied gable doorway and two round vents, beside the boiler room. Listed 2003.
The Yamasan Soy Sauce Three-Story Soy Sauce Brewery on Shodoshima is a Taisho-era timber building in charred cedar with a king post truss roof, listed in 2002.
The Yamasan Soy Sauce Mashing Room and Boiler Room on Shodoshima wraps the three-story brewery, with king post trusses and a vented boiler room roof. Listed 2003.
The Yamasan Soy Sauce Operations Shed on Shodoshima is an early Taisho building on a trapezoidal plan, thought to be a former cooking room. Listed 2003.
The Yamasan Soy Sauce East Koji Storehouse on Shodoshima is a Taisho-era earthen building split into five koji rooms, with temperature-control windows. Listed 2002.
The Yamasan Soy Sauce Pressing Shed on Shodoshima is an early Taisho work building with log framing and a roof ventilator, where mash was pressed. Listed 2003.