Edo
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Shrine sanctuary of 1830 on Honjima in Marugame, Kagawa, a one-bay nagare-style building on a stone base, its lively carving showing Shiwaku carpenters' skill.
A late-Edo four-legged gate at Wada in Kanonji, said to have been raised for a Marugame lord's visit. Six registered buildings here have gone; only the gate stands.
A late Edo moromi storehouse from the founding years of the Umagoe brewery, with a waist-high cut-stone base, board-clad walls, a stepped ridge and wooden vats.
A 42-square-meter late Edo earthen storehouse near the shore at the Umagoe brewery, the only listed building there with a hongawara roof, its walls clad in boards.
Entrance halls of 1845 joined to the Main Hall of Shorenji, a Shin temple in Sakaide, Kagawa: a gable-entry hall with a step platform and a small linking hall.
Mid-Edo yakuimon gate at Shorenji, a Shin temple in Sakaide, Kagawa, with massive flat-sectioned posts, a carved tie beam and an ornate gable under a hongawara roof.
Main hall of 1825 at Shorenji, a Shin temple in Sakaide, Kagawa, a fine late Edo example of the region, its porch carved with dragons, baku and carp in waves.
Buddhist hall of the 1670s at Zentsuji in Kagawa, moved here in 1831, with a veranda, posts and sliding doors in residential style, facing the Nakamon Gate.
Late Edo bell tower south-west of the Main Hall at Zentsuji in Kagawa, with a skirt wall, railed balcony and curved eaves, keeping traces of its past as a gate.
A single-bay shrine of 1867 standing in the moat at Zentsuji Tanjoin in Kagawa, 0.9 square metres, the oldest and smallest of the 19. Registered in 2010.
Late Edo two-storey gate at Zentsuji in Kagawa, facing the Shakado Hall, with dragons and cranes carved below and an open upper storey under curved eaves.
Small shrine of 1808 on a pond islet at Zentsuji in Kagawa, a single-bay nagare-style building altered in 1861, with cloud and wave carvings suited to rain prayers.
A late Edo farmhouse in Yasuda on Shodoshima, built in the eastern Shikoku shihobuta form with a gabled core ringed by pent roofs on all four sides. Registered 2004.
The Tomii Family Residence Main House in Tadotsu, Kagawa, is an 1828 samurai home with lean-to roofs on four sides and rafters plastered in a wavy line.
The Tomii Family Residence New Reception Room, a late Edo wing of a samurai house in Tadotsu, Kagawa, stands right by the street with no gate or wall before it.
The Tomii Family Residence Storehouse, a late Edo storehouse in Tadotsu, Kagawa, has namako-kabe tiled walls rising to the eaves at the corners and a canopied door.
The Tomii Family Residence Gate, a late Edo bracket-arm gate in Tadotsu, Kagawa, pairs a black-plastered wall with lattice and panelled doors that slide aside.
The oldest building on its Takamatsu lot, the late Edo Masui Family Residence Shoin runs 15 metres along the street and holds a formal ten-mat reception room.
189-metre tunnel dug by hand through Mount Mitsuishi in Sanuki, Kagawa, and finished in 1857 to bring water to the dry Miroku Pond; it is still in use today.
The 1842 main house of the Murao estate in Takamatsu, dated by ink inscriptions in its roof space, with a metal hipped roof ringed by tiled eaves, Sanuki style.