Meiji

The Murakami Family Residence Barn in Fukuyama links two storehouses and keeps an alcove and cupboards from its days as a terakoya, a small private school.

Built in 1885 on a headman's estate in Mukaishima, Onomichi, this 114-square-metre tiled gatehouse follows a gate drawn in an 1825 house diagram. Registered 1997.

Twelve buildings atop Kotohira Shrine's 785 steps, rebuilt in plain cypress after the Shinto-Buddhist separation of the 1870s and designated in 2024: dates, details.

Timber officers' club of the army's 11th Division, completed in 1903 in Zentsuji, Kagawa; restored to its original Renaissance-style form and open free to visitors.

Early-Meiji stone lighthouse on Nabeshima, Sakaide, Kagawa, among the first built under Richard Henry Brunton; its grounds are open, with views of the Seto Ohashi.

The East Sake Storehouse at Ayagiku Sake Brewery in Ayagawa, Kagawa, is a late Meiji earthen storehouse whose roof sweeps down on the east to span 14.2 meters.

Late Meiji granite borders lining the 16-metre approach to a Sakaide salt family's gate: 0.7-metre stone walls capped with cut blocks holding planting beds.

The late Meiji yakuimon gate of a Sakaide salt family's estate: 2.1 metres wide under a gently swelling tiled roof, with four beams on its lintel and a wicket door.

Built around 1890 for a Sakaide salt family and enlarged about 1932, this 283 m² hip-and-gable house mixes Japanese and Western rooms. Registered 2019; private.

A late Meiji two-storey wing of formal rooms behind a Sakaide salt family's house, with polished log posts, ebony trim and mist-pattern transoms on both floors.

A two-storey clay-walled storehouse of about 1911 in a Sakaide salt family's courtyard: white plaster, namako tiles at base and corners, and a Western roof truss.

Late Meiji plastered earthen walls flanking a Sakaide salt family's gate: 2.4 metres high and 47 metres long, on stone bases, with hachiso motifs at the corners.

Built in mid-Meiji Japan at Ubushina Shrine in Utazu, Kagawa, this 27 sq m two-storey earthen storehouse hides a Western roof truss behind tiled gables and plaster.

Raised in 1874 at Ubushina Shrine in Utazu, Kagawa, this 37 sq m tiled hall omits bracketing across its body and gathers all carving, a wave motif, at the canopy.

An early Meiji firewood barn at the corner of a goshi estate in Takamatsu: 16.4 m long, a windowless storehouse-built wall to the road, open within. Seen outside.

A mid Meiji gate and wall dividing the entry court from the garden of a goshi estate in Takamatsu: a yakuimon gate, white plaster one side, black the other.

An early Meiji two-storey storehouse on a goshi estate in Takamatsu: rice store east, utensil store west, and an upper floor with mesh windows and gapped boards.

An early Meiji barn in Takamatsu where a goshi family matured liquid fertilizer in three big jars: blind plastered wall to the road, open to the yard. Seen outside.

A c.1902 guest bath and lavatory at a goshi estate in Takamatsu: log framing, an iron-tube tub, a celadon toilet and round lattice windows. Not open to the public.

Timber shop of 1901 of a sake brewer in Zentsuji, Kagawa, its black-plastered upper floor painted with the name of Gogaku sake, with a bowed roof and plaster relief.