Taishō
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Completed in 1917 for Count Matsudaira on the third bailey of Takamatsu Castle, this villa hides Western roof trusses above its 142-mat hall. Designated 2012.
A 1920 classroom block of the former Awashima Seamen's School in Kagawa, the largest of five registered structures, with its own variant gable and canopy.
A 1920 single-storey classroom block of the former Awashima Seamen's School in Kagawa, later a maritime gallery, its seaward front matching the Main Building.
The 1920 judo hall of the former Awashima Seamen's School in Kagawa, a plain timber building whose trussed roof leaves the mat floor entirely free of posts.
The 1920 timber main building of the former Awashima Seamen's School in Kagawa, with an upstairs auditorium, clapboard walls and a half-timbered central gable.
A pair of 1920 granite gateposts, 109 cm high, at the former Awashima Seamen's School in Kagawa, with chamfered corners and rounded tops typical of the Taisho era.
Timber koji room of the early Taisho period at a soy sauce brewery at Obe on Shodoshima, Kagawa, with double walls, a bamboo-slat ceiling and high vent windows.
Timber pressing shed of the early Taisho period at a soy sauce brewery at Obe on Shodoshima, Kagawa, with a former boiler room and a row of slatted iwaku-mado.
Reinforced-concrete library of 1922 in Sakaide, Kagawa, built by Takenaka Komuten for the Kamada Kyosaikai foundation; an early full-scale concrete library.
Kamebishi's workshop in Hikita, Kagawa is a late-Taisho building, two stories with a three-story end that once pasteurized soy sauce; it is the tallest here.
The No. 12 warehouse at Kamebishi in Hikita, Kagawa is the smallest of the 18, marked by an asymmetric maneki roof, charred-cedar boards and drip tiles.
The No. 8 warehouse at Kamebishi in Hikita, Kagawa is a long late-Taisho moromi store on granite footings, holding twenty square vats on the western plot.
Kakumeikan, the former Bottling Storehouse at Kawatsuru in Kan-onji, Kagawa, is a single-storey wooden building of the Taisho era, now used as a concert hall.
The Kawatsuru Museum at Kawatsuru brewery in Kan-onji, Kagawa, is a small Taisho-era earthen storehouse, relocated around 1955 and now showing the brewery's old tools.
The Koji Storehouse at Kawatsuru Sake Brewery in Kan-onji, Kagawa, is a two-storey earthen building of 1914 whose upstairs koji room is still used to make koji today.
The West Brewery at Kawatsuru in Kan-onji, Kagawa, is a large two-storey earthen storehouse of 1918, its long, window-lined west wall a landmark seen from the town.
The Filtration Storehouse at Kawatsuru in Kan-onji, Kagawa, is a two-storey earthen building of 1914 whose matched eaves complete the brewery's north frontage.
A 1914 single-room wooden hall in Kan-onji, Kagawa, lit from a raised monitor roof and framed with an exposed Western truss, with curved braces cut as an accent.
Built in 1914 as a county agricultural experiment station in Kan-onji, Kagawa, this symmetrical wooden Western-style building now houses a cafe open to all.
The 1912 main house of the Ishii soy estate in Noma, Shodoshima: an irimoya range with an earthen floor, raised rooms and black plaster walls of quiet dignity.