Meiji
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The smallest storehouse of the Murao estate in Takamatsu, built about 1897, whose west gable caps the ridge-beam end with plaster shaped into a crossed-fan relief.
A gatehouse of about 1897 at the Murao estate in Takamatsu, 21 meters long under a hip-and-gable tile roof, with an off-center gateway and namako-kabe tiled walls.
A single-story timber barn of about 1897 on the Murao estate in Takamatsu, joined to the old rice store and set on the stone edge of the plot, with a wide opening.
A two-story plastered storehouse of about 1897, once the rice store of the Murao estate in Takamatsu, with an okiyane roof, barred windows and a round window.
The Motoyamaji Kabuki Gate in Mitoyo, Kagawa, a granite gate of 1910 registered in 2014, with tapering posts, a carved crossbeam and a curved roof all cut in stone.
The Yamasan Soy Sauce North Soy Sauce Storehouse is a 30-ken Meiji-era earthen storehouse on Shodoshima that once held about 100 brewing vats. Listed in 2002.
Built in 1908 above Shodoshima's soy sauce village, this 111 sq m timber gatehouse hides its opening inside the east lean-to and carries two round windows.
A wooden soy sauce warehouse in Yasuda on Shodoshima, built in 1900 and re-erected on this site in 1949. Cedar-clad, still brewing, registered in 2003.
Built in 1907 by Obe Port on Shodoshima, this soy sauce mash warehouse has a trapezoidal plan and a king-post truss roof. Registered in 2004 and still in use.
Two 1888 buildings east of the mash warehouse at Noma on Shodoshima, where koji and brine were mixed and matured mash was pressed, both vented by monitor roofs.
Built in 1908 at Noma on Shodoshima, this boiler house handled every stage involving fire, and its 15-metre brick chimney remains the landmark of the brewery site.
A compact two-storey building of 1908 at Noma on Shodoshima that held the brewery's imported soybeans and wheat and housed the desk where its accounts were kept.
Built in 1888 at Noma on Shodoshima, this 24-metre mash warehouse holds fermentation vats in its southern half and a bottling floor in the north, and still works.
The main house of the Yamayoshi Yamamoto residence on Shodoshima: an 18 by 11 metre single-storey home with a projecting porch and pantile roof over hongawara eaves.
A 1908 two-storey earthen tool store, just 20 square metres, set behind the annex of the Yamayoshi Yamamoto residence where the home gives way to the soy brewery.
A late Meiji stone neribei wall edging the Yamayoshi Yamamoto residence: split stones built 1.2 metres high on precisely cut granite, capped with a tiled roof.
A 1908 retirement annex linked to the Yamayoshi Yamamoto main house by a corridor, with its own shikidai entrance, a blue-tiled toilet and an inverted tiling scheme.
Built in 1908, this tiled nagayamon gatehouse fronts the Yamayoshi Yamamoto residence on Shodoshima, with black plaster walls, an east-end gate and a drip course.
Single-storey 1897 storehouse at Iwasaki Yataro's birthplace in Aki, Kochi, joined to the East Storehouse by a shared roof over an office. Registered in 2010.
An early Meiji wall of mountain stone and red earth, known locally as ishiguro, edging the fields at Iwasaki Yataro's birthplace in Aki, Kochi. Registered 2010.