Meiji
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Twin timber brewing storehouses of the early Meiji period at a soy sauce brewery at Obe on Shodoshima, Kagawa, the core of the works, with slatted upper windows.
Granite lighthouse of 1895 at the tip of Ogijima in the Bisan Strait, walls left unpainted, made an Important Cultural Property in 2026 with two brick buildings.
Hip-and-gable tiled gatehouse of 1896 on a hillside estate at Nishibun, Ayagawa, Kagawa, with a servants' room, stable and storeroom; a private home, not open.
Kamebishi's pressing house in Hikita, Kagawa was once a merchant home; this early-Meiji building now presses fermented moromi into raw soy sauce.
The No. 1 warehouse at Kamebishi in Hikita, Kagawa is a late-Meiji store that once held soybeans; its namako-kabe base and red-ochre walls shape the street.
The former No. 4 and No. 6 warehouses at Kamebishi in Hikita, Kagawa are an early-Meiji pair meeting at a right angle, likely once a wholesaler's buildings.
Kamebishi's warehouse in Hikita, Kagawa is a two-story earthen store on granite footings, its west gable bearing the founding Okada family's oak-leaf crest.
Kamebishi's 24-meter koji house in Hikita, Kagawa holds five mezzanine chambers built for the mushiro-koji method the brewery alone still keeps in Japan.
Once a detached parlor, Kamebishi's storeroom in Hikita, Kagawa is an early-Meiji building whose formal tiled roof marks the residential heart of the compound.
The No. 7 warehouse at Kamebishi in Hikita, Kagawa is a large late-Meiji moromi store holding sixteen round and three square wooden vats on the western plot.
The oldest building on the Ishii estate in Noma, Shodoshima, this 1885 soy shed holds a moromi cellar, a storehouse and a stone well: the brewery's working heart.
The Goyashiki Front Gate in Takamatsu is an early Meiji gabled gate with a central opening and two wicket doors, set between the estate's two street storehouses.
The Goyashiki North Storehouse West in Takamatsu is an early Meiji kura sharing a wall with its neighbor; smaller but taller, it adds a lean-to eave to the skyline.
The Goyashiki North Storehouse East in Takamatsu is an early Meiji kura with white walls and only 2 high windows, marking the estate's edge against the rice fields.
The Goyashiki Storehouse in Takamatsu is an early Meiji kura on the street; clapboard, white plaster and latticed windows make it look like a nagayamon gatehouse.
The Goyashiki Rice Storehouse in Takamatsu is an early Meiji kura with a parallelogram plan, rhombus-section posts, namako-kabe walls and iron-shuttered windows.
Goyashiki Main House in Takamatsu is an early Meiji farmhouse with an eight-room plan around a tatami corridor and a sukiya-style inner room, now used for dining.
The Goyashiki Middle Gate in Takamatsu is an early Meiji yakuimon without bracket sets. With its 13 m of flanking walls it divides the front and south gardens.
The Goyashiki Middle Earthen Wall in Takamatsu is an early Meiji garden wall, about 14 m long and 1.8 m high, running from a storehouse to frame the rear garden.
The Goyashiki West Storehouse in Takamatsu is a long early Meiji kura once used for timber; its white plaster wall screens the main house and defines the west side.