Meiji
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The Goyashiki West Earthen Wall in Takamatsu is an early Meiji wall, 1.8 m high and 18 m long, left in rough clay on a rubble base, closing the southwest.
The Goyashiki East Storehouse in Takamatsu is an early Meiji corner kura whose roof is hip-and-gable at one end and gabled at the other, with a former sitting room.
The Goyashiki East Earthen Wall in Takamatsu is an early Meiji wall, 1.8 m high and about 72 m long, of white plaster on a random-rubble base of local andesite.
The Goyashiki Former Bathhouse in Takamatsu is an early Meiji guest bath wing with cedar-bark walls and a tiled roof joining the main house, now a tatami guest room.
Former inn of the early Meiji period on the eastern approach to Kotohiragu, Kagawa, now an udon shop, keeping a balustrade carved with flowers on its upper floor.
Kotohira Shrine's Treasure Museum, a 1905 granite building by Kuru Masamichi with a tiled roof, karahafu porch and arched windows; registered in 1996. Hours, fees.
Meiji earthen soy sauce storehouse of Sakai Soy Sauce at Noma on Shodoshima, Kagawa, two gabled blocks facing the old shore works store across the road.
Built in 1908 at Umaki on Shodoshima, this registered farmhouse keeps old hongawara tiling on its south eaves and plastered eave soffits on the west side.
This 1908 storehouse at Umaki on Shodoshima sets its west wall on a stone wall some twenty metres long, with modelled plasterwork around the south gable window.
The 1908 barn at Umaki on Shodoshima meets the main house at its north gable and shelters two sides under pent canopies, closing the work yard on its third side.
The Saya Bridge, a roofed wooden arched bridge of 1869 in Kotohira with no piers in the river; registered in 1998 and used only for Kotohira Shrine's rites.
Late Meiji offering hall of Sarureo Shrine in Marugame, Kagawa, a one-bay hall with a cypress-bark roof and doors front and back, facing the burial mound behind.
Worship and offering hall of 1897 at Sansho Shrine on Honjima, Kagawa, with layered gables and fine carving, a late work of the island's famed Shiwaku carpenters.
The oldest building in the JR Tadotsu Works, this timber hall dates to 1888. A king-post truss spans its 42.7-meter ridge without interior columns beneath a slate roof.
This 1877 earthen-walled rice store at the Shigeta home in Mannō, Kagawa, holds three rooms for grain, barn and tools, with a stone tank at one end kept against fire.
At the Shigeta residence in Mannō, Kagawa, an 1877 earthen-walled tool store and a 1914 timber privy stand as one registered building at the compound's northwest corner.
Built in 1877 at the Shigeta residence in Mannō, Kagawa, a diagonal stone wall carries a roofed earthen wall, with a watercourse circling its base like a moated dwelling.
Built in 1877 at the Shigeta residence in Mannō, Kagawa, this narrow covered corridor links house to gatehouse and splits the south yard into a work area and a garden.
Built in 1877 at Yamawaki in Mannō, Kagawa, this gatehouse of the Shigeta farming family holds an eight-mat room and a two-tone wall of tiled base and black plaster.
An 1901 single-span stone arch moved from a Konpira pilgrimage road to the Shikoku Mura open-air museum in Takamatsu, its keystone carved with a lion and a carp.