Meiji
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Timber shop of the mid-Meiji period near the Kotohira-gu approach in Kagawa, plain in front but fitted inside with a woven-wood vaulted ceiling and rare timbers.
Mausoleum of 1868 at Honkyoji, Takamatsu, for Matsudaira Yorikane, who led his domain to submit to the court; a rare compound form of inner and worship halls.
The Masui Family Residence Main House in Takamatsu, built in 1907, keeps a castle-town townhouse front: latticed bay window, black plaster, insect-cage window.
Built in 1912, the Masui Family Residence Tea House in Takamatsu lines up eight-mat, four-mat and preparation rooms beside the four-mat Unmon-an tea room.
An early Meiji gatehouse at a headman's residence in Sakaide, Kagawa, registered in 2004. Its front carries namako-kabe tiling and wave-moulded plaster eaves.
This late-Meiji wing gives the Matsugaya compound in Nio, Kagawa its street face: a lattice bay, a grey plaster loft with barred window, a tea room by the door.
A late-Meiji storehouse in Nio, Kagawa saving its finest plasterwork for the courtyard side: black walls, namako tiling in interlocking circles, a curved ridge beam.
The main house of the Manabe Family Residence in Takamatsu, completed in 1901. A large single-story home with a coffered altar room marking a landholding family's rank.
The storehouse of the Manabe Family Residence, a two-story earthen dozo built in 1905. Its north half held tools and its south half rice, on a raised-beam roof structure.
The earthen wall of the Manabe Family Residence, about 44 meters long, built around 1882 on a stone base beside a water channel, shaping the local streetscape.
The middle gate and fence of the Manabe Family Residence, built in 1908: a zelkova gate with a black-plaster, lattice-windowed fence guiding guests into the inner garden.
The nagayamon gatehouse of the Manabe Family Residence spans the south front, eleven bays wide. Relocated around 1882, its plaster and namako base symbolize the estate.
The barn and wall of the Manabe Family Residence stand at the estate's north edge. Built around 1875 with a back gate, on a stone base beside a water channel.
The detached quarters of the Manabe Family Residence, its oldest surviving building, stand behind the main house. Built around 1875, remodeled in 1926.
The east gate of the Manabe Family Residence stands beside the nagayamon. Built in middle Meiji, it holds a three-mat menservants' room, its wall doubling as a barn.
A 16-metre wall at the rear of a merchant compound in Mitoyo, Kagawa, closing the gap between house and storehouse, its roof carried down inside as a lean-to.
Built in 1903, oldest of eight registered structures in Mitoyo, Kagawa. A storehouse with diamond-patterned lower walls, a plaster gable relief and a curved roof.
A 21-metre black-plastered wall in Mitoyo, Kagawa, standing on continuous stone with buttress posts behind and a tiled roof carried on projecting brackets.
A two-story Meiji-era main house in Kotohira, taller than its eastern neighbor, with a 1937 rear wing holding an altar room and a reception room by a garden.
A stone wall about 35 meters long and 2 meters high, built about 1897 fronting the Murao estate in Takamatsu, laid in diamond courses with gourd and fan stones.