Meiji
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A 15-meter square brick chimney of 1908 in English bond at the Umagoe brewery, with two cornice tiers framing the trade mark, rising above low storehouse roofs.
Built in 1888 when the Umagoe brewery became a company, this 400-square-meter hall has a raised central roof, lean-tos on three sides and faceted timbers inside.
Raised in 1901 beside the older north storehouse at the Umagoe brewery, this 300-square-meter moromi storehouse keeps a traditional frame of heavy timbers.
Hexagonal sutra repository of 1879 at Shorenji, a Shin temple in Sakaide, Kagawa, with thick plastered walls, a cusped window and a porch carved with animals.
Open bell tower of 1910 at Shorenji, a Shin temple in Sakaide, Kagawa, in a well-proportioned Zen style with dense bracketing and fan rafters under a hongawara roof.
The stone revetment and fence around the moat at Zentsuji Tanjoin in Kagawa, 193 metres long and built in 1889. Registered in 2010 as a structure, not a building.
A reception building of 1907 at Zentsuji Tanjoin in Kagawa, 20 by 11 metres, with eight rooms and a raised room under a doubly coved ceiling. Registered in 2010.
An entrance block of 1907 at Zentsuji Tanjoin in Kagawa, pairing a formal doorway with a curved canopy and a plainer one with cusped windows. Registered in 2010.
The main entrance gate of 1889 at Zentsuji Tanjoin in Kagawa, 3.2 metres wide, with ridge ornaments, guardian figures and great straw sandals. Registered in 2010.
Timber gate of about 1908 facing the Main Hall of Zentsuji in Kagawa, a flat karamon 7.6 metres wide with cusped gables and side walls, the temple's main entrance.
A mid-Meiji brewing hall in Yasuda, Shodoshima. Its ridge runs 22 metres, and combined wagoya and noboribari framing lifts the ceiling above the cedar vats.
The smallest of six registered buildings on a Shodoshima soy sauce estate, this two-storey earthen storehouse anchors the rear corner of the yard with its side gate.
A late-Meiji retirement wing in Mitoyo, Kagawa, later used for tea classes, with long low eaves and Mount Fuji transoms. Registered in 2021 for its fine carpentry.
An early-Meiji farmhouse at the heart of the Tottori compound in Mitoyo, Kagawa: a thatched roof ringed by tile in the local shihoubuta style. Registered in 2021.
An 1894 rice store in Mitoyo, Kagawa, with white plaster walls, fanned rafters and a bamboo-and-earth ceiling. Registered in 2021; now used as a fitness studio.
A two-storey clay-walled storehouse of 1906 in Mitoyo, Kagawa, with a rough-timber lean-to and ornamental ridge tiles. Registered in 2021 as the anchor of the yard.
A two-storey late-Meiji tool barn in Mitoyo, Kagawa, with clay walls and an open roof frame of stacked beams and bamboo. Registered in 2021 for its role in the view.
A two-storey barn of 1894 in Mitoyo, Kagawa, still under its original heavy hongawara tiles, with sliding-slat windows and a copper-mesh door. Registered in 2021.
A small late-Meiji outbuilding in Mitoyo, Kagawa, where the family's young people slept, a custom called hiya. Registered in 2021 as a rare trace of rural life.
The 1909 storehouse of the Nagasaki Family Residence in Hiketa, Kagawa: a 17-metre plaster-walled building holding a former rice store and a former koji store.