Shōwa

The worship hall of Nogi Shrine in Zentsuji, Kagawa, built in 1937, adds a front gable and an offering hall yet keeps the straight lines of its shinmei main hall.

The main hall of Nogi Shrine in Zentsuji, Kagawa, built in 1937, is a three-bay shinmei-style hall of bare timber with ridge posts, a copper roof and a railing.

Early Showa wooden signboard building near Marugame Station, Kagawa, a former clinic with a mortar front of pilasters, a central entrance and gable ornament.

A 13-metre tiled earthen wall and a 1.4-metre gate dividing the front court from the inner garden of a triangular estate in Mure, Takamatsu. Registered in 2006.

The 1935 residential block of a merchant compound in Mitoyo, Kagawa, attached behind the family's Western-style shop. Plainly finished, with a latticed gable end.

A 1932 storehouse and workshop at a Kotohira soy sauce and miso brewery, roofed on timber king post trusses, with a former rice store and a koji room inside.

The Yamasan Soy Sauce Washing Area on Shodoshima is a pair of Showa-era granite wells and paved washing floors where soy sauce ingredients were cleaned. Listed 2002.

The Yamasan Soy Sauce Koji-Making Nagayamon Gate and Barn on Shodoshima is an early Showa gatehouse with a koji room, visible from the road. Listed 2006.

The Yamasan Soy Sauce Western-Style House on Shodoshima is a one-room early Showa house with Spanish tiles and tall windows, moved in 1959 and listed in 2003.

Near the guest rooms of the Yamada house, a garden gate barely a meter wide is roofed with bold arched tiles, an early-Showa accent between the south and west gardens.

Built in 1932 when the Yamahisa brewery was founded, this cedar-clad warehouse in Yasuda on Shodoshima carries the firm's mark on its gable. Registered in 2003.

An earthen-walled storehouse of 1938 at Obe, Shodoshima, its west gable marked with the family crest and its north pent roof on curved brackets. Registered 2004.

The chozuya of Nogi Shrine in Zentsuji, Kagawa, built in 1937, is a copper-roofed pavilion whose posts, paired braces and tie beams form a constructivist frame.

A steel tower off Kochi: 64 spiral steps drop seven meters under Tatsukushi Bay to round windows on the reef. Built 1971, registered 2022, closed since May 2026.

In the old merchant town of Tano, Kochi, this small 1938 storehouse shows Tosa craft clearly: thick lime-plaster walls banded by four tiers of rain-cutting tiles.

In Tano, Shikoku's smallest town, this 1937 cultural property gave a coastal fishing master's home the formal entrance and gentry rooms of a samurai house.

Built in 1938 for the Arisawa, who owned Tano's fishing fleet, this timber annex keeps a beach-facing passage—a registered cultural property in old-town Tano, Kochi.

In the fishing town of Usa in Kochi, this around-1947 registered building holds four rooms set in the order dried bonito is made: boiling, smoking, mold, storage.

In Usa, a Kochi town known as the birthplace of Tosa-bushi, these two 1947 buildings are where the Izumi family prepared and sun-dried bonito for katsuobushi.

A Tosa fishing-town house rebuilt around 1947 after the 1946 Nankai earthquake, its plaster gables banded with mizukiri-gawara drip-tiles, the upper floor one hall.