Taishō
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The No. 12 warehouse at Kamebishi in Hikita, Kagawa is the smallest of the 18, marked by an asymmetric maneki roof, charred-cedar boards and drip tiles.
The No. 8 warehouse at Kamebishi in Hikita, Kagawa is a long late-Taisho moromi store on granite footings, holding twenty square vats on the western plot.
Kakumeikan, the former Bottling Storehouse at Kawatsuru in Kan-onji, Kagawa, is a single-storey wooden building of the Taisho era, now used as a concert hall.
The Kawatsuru Museum at Kawatsuru brewery in Kan-onji, Kagawa, is a small Taisho-era earthen storehouse, relocated around 1955 and now showing the brewery's old tools.
The Koji Storehouse at Kawatsuru Sake Brewery in Kan-onji, Kagawa, is a two-storey earthen building of 1914 whose upstairs koji room is still used to make koji today.
The West Brewery at Kawatsuru in Kan-onji, Kagawa, is a large two-storey earthen storehouse of 1918, its long, window-lined west wall a landmark seen from the town.
The Filtration Storehouse at Kawatsuru in Kan-onji, Kagawa, is a two-storey earthen building of 1914 whose matched eaves complete the brewery's north frontage.
A 1914 single-room wooden hall in Kan-onji, Kagawa, lit from a raised monitor roof and framed with an exposed Western truss, with curved braces cut as an accent.
Built in 1914 as a county agricultural experiment station in Kan-onji, Kagawa, this symmetrical wooden Western-style building now houses a cafe open to all.
The 1912 main house of the Ishii soy estate in Noma, Shodoshima: an irimoya range with an earthen floor, raised rooms and black plaster walls of quiet dignity.
A small 1915 earthen storehouse on the Ishii estate in Noma, Shodoshima: charred cedar, namako plaster and white eaves on a stone base, registered as hard to copy.
The 1915 gatehouse of the Ishii estate in Noma, Shodoshima runs 17 metres by the main house, skirt roofs giving a half-loft look, called the core of the estate.
The 1917 office of the Goten waterworks in Takamatsu, Kagawa, L-shaped and timber-built with an arched porch gable, now in the free water museum. Registered 1997.
Taisho-era moromi storehouse 80 metres long at the Kinryo brewery on Shodoshima, Kagawa, its long boarded and plastered north wall lining the Umaki River road.
Taisho-era storehouse at the Kinryo brewery on Shodoshima, once the koji mixing and machine rooms, with a long raised roof on king-post trusses; now partly a shop.
House of about 1918 of the Fujii family, owners of the Kinryo soy sauce brewery on Shodoshima, with a projecting porch, ten-mat reception room and counting room.
Storehouse of 1918 of the Fujii family at the Kinryo brewery on Shodoshima, a two-storey tiled store on a trapezoidal plan with plaster relief on its window hood.
Walls of about 1918 and 1929 round the Fujii house at the Kinryo brewery on Shodoshima, 42 metres long: an earthen wall to the south and a brick wall by the road.
Just south of the main building and facing west, this gabled tile-roofed hall began as Passenger Shelter No.3 for group travellers, later walled in as a display space.
Built in 1922 as the gateway for pilgrims to Konpira Shrine, this wooden station keeps a gabled porch, half-round windows and circular maru-kin emblems on its eaves.