Taishō
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Three earthen units joined into a 47-metre storehouse in Saijo, Hiroshima. Built in the Taisho era for a brewery founded by pooled investment; registered in 2016.
A 24-metre brick chimney in English bond, crowned with a moulded band, rising over the white storehouse walls of Saijo in Higashihiroshima. Registered in 2016.
A 58-metre earthen sake storehouse from around 1924 at the centre of Fukubijin's Daikoku-gura compound in Saijo, Hiroshima, registered as cultural property in 2016.
A 27-metre English-bond brick chimney from the late Taisho era at Fukubijin's Daikoku-gura compound in Saijo, Hiroshima, the tallest in town, registered in 2016.
A Taisho-era timber office with horizontal board cladding beside the gate of Fukubijin's Ebisu-gura compound in Saijo, Hiroshima, typical of the town's breweries.
A Taisho-era timber dormitory at Fukubijin's Ebisu-gura in Saijo, Hiroshima, where seasonal brewers lived beside the storehouses, sleeping in upstairs quarters.
A red-tiled earthen sake storehouse from around 1919 on the east side of Fukubijin's Ebisu-gura in Saijo, Hiroshima, roofed on a king-post truss rare in town.
A Taisho-era timber dormitory beside the No. 1 Storehouse at Fukubijin's Ebisu-gura in Saijo, Hiroshima, its black clapboard wall closing a three-way junction.
Two Taisho-era granite gateposts, each 82 centimetres square and 2.0 metres high with chamfered corners and carved curves, at the entrance of Fukubijin's Ebisu-gura.
A 28-metre earthen sake storehouse at Fukubijin's Daikoku-gura compound in Saijo, Hiroshima, with inclined-beam roof framing and hooded windows in a steel-clad wall.
Completed in 1917 for Count Matsudaira on the third bailey of Takamatsu Castle, this villa hides Western roof trusses above its 142-mat hall. Designated 2012.
A 1920 classroom block of the former Awashima Seamen's School in Kagawa, the largest of five registered structures, with its own variant gable and canopy.
A 1920 single-storey classroom block of the former Awashima Seamen's School in Kagawa, later a maritime gallery, its seaward front matching the Main Building.
The 1920 judo hall of the former Awashima Seamen's School in Kagawa, a plain timber building whose trussed roof leaves the mat floor entirely free of posts.
The 1920 timber main building of the former Awashima Seamen's School in Kagawa, with an upstairs auditorium, clapboard walls and a half-timbered central gable.
A pair of 1920 granite gateposts, 109 cm high, at the former Awashima Seamen's School in Kagawa, with chamfered corners and rounded tops typical of the Taisho era.
Timber koji room of the early Taisho period at a soy sauce brewery at Obe on Shodoshima, Kagawa, with double walls, a bamboo-slat ceiling and high vent windows.
Timber pressing shed of the early Taisho period at a soy sauce brewery at Obe on Shodoshima, Kagawa, with a former boiler room and a row of slatted iwaku-mado.
Reinforced-concrete library of 1922 in Sakaide, Kagawa, built by Takenaka Komuten for the Kamada Kyosaikai foundation; an early full-scale concrete library.
Kamebishi's workshop in Hikita, Kagawa is a late-Taisho building, two stories with a three-story end that once pasteurized soy sauce; it is the tallest here.