Taishō
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Completed in 1922 on a footprint of just 27 sq m, this two-storey annex wears a steep gable of green French pantiles and is a landmark in its Shodoshima hamlet.
In Mure, Takamatsu, a brick chimney about eighteen meters tall stands by the road to Yakuriji temple, its south face still bearing the Genji Masamune brewery name.
Once a store for the Yamada family's Genji Masamune sake, this plain late-Taisho timber storehouse near Yakuriji temple now serves as a dining room for a udon restaurant.
On the old approach to Yakuriji temple, a hall barely two square meters shelters two stone Jizo figures inscribed 1729 and 1765, marking devotion on the pilgrim path.
At the center of the Yamada estate near Yakuriji temple, this large timber house of former headmen turned sake brewers now serves as the Yamada-ya udon restaurant.
East of the gatehouse, the Yamada south storehouse shows its white-plastered gable to the road, a late-Taisho earthen storehouse built for sake, now a udon dining room.
A two-storey retirement house of 1913 on a soy sauce brewing lot at Obe, Shodoshima, with a railed low window wrapping its northwest corner. Registered in 2004.
A 1926 Western-style clinic on the main street of Tadotsu, Kagawa, registered in 2002. Mortar render, a stone-faced base and a tall parapet hide its timber frame.