Taishō
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A late Taisho single-storey entrance hall in Mitoyo, Kagawa, in the sukiya manner, with a dormer-gabled entrance platform and a rare pre-carved alcove post inside.
A middle Taisho-era storehouse at a Kotohira brewery, built for soy sauce mash: two gabled stores side by side, one on a Japanese frame, one on a Western truss.
A two-story plastered town house of the early Taisho era on Kotohira's Higashinaka street, with black plaster, two white-framed mushiko windows and the brewery shop.
The Yamasan Soy Sauce Barrel Shed on Shodoshima is a mid-Taisho work building with a rhombus-shaped plan and a two-tiered roof on its south side. Listed 2003.
The Yamasan Soy Sauce Rice Storehouse on Shodoshima is a mid-Taisho store with a canopied gable doorway and two round vents, beside the boiler room. Listed 2003.
The Yamasan Soy Sauce Three-Story Soy Sauce Brewery on Shodoshima is a Taisho-era timber building in charred cedar with a king post truss roof, listed in 2002.
The Yamasan Soy Sauce Mashing Room and Boiler Room on Shodoshima wraps the three-story brewery, with king post trusses and a vented boiler room roof. Listed 2003.
The Yamasan Soy Sauce Operations Shed on Shodoshima is an early Taisho building on a trapezoidal plan, thought to be a former cooking room. Listed 2003.
The Yamasan Soy Sauce East Koji Storehouse on Shodoshima is a Taisho-era earthen building split into five koji rooms, with temperature-control windows. Listed 2002.
The Yamasan Soy Sauce Pressing Shed on Shodoshima is an early Taisho work building with log framing and a roof ventilator, where mash was pressed. Listed 2003.
Completed in 1922 on a footprint of just 27 sq m, this two-storey annex wears a steep gable of green French pantiles and is a landmark in its Shodoshima hamlet.
In Mure, Takamatsu, a brick chimney about eighteen meters tall stands by the road to Yakuriji temple, its south face still bearing the Genji Masamune brewery name.
Once a store for the Yamada family's Genji Masamune sake, this plain late-Taisho timber storehouse near Yakuriji temple now serves as a dining room for a udon restaurant.
On the old approach to Yakuriji temple, a hall barely two square meters shelters two stone Jizo figures inscribed 1729 and 1765, marking devotion on the pilgrim path.
At the center of the Yamada estate near Yakuriji temple, this large timber house of former headmen turned sake brewers now serves as the Yamada-ya udon restaurant.
East of the gatehouse, the Yamada south storehouse shows its white-plastered gable to the road, a late-Taisho earthen storehouse built for sake, now a udon dining room.
A two-storey retirement house of 1913 on a soy sauce brewing lot at Obe, Shodoshima, with a railed low window wrapping its northwest corner. Registered in 2004.
A 1926 Western-style clinic on the main street of Tadotsu, Kagawa, registered in 2002. Mortar render, a stone-faced base and a tall parapet hide its timber frame.
Stone arch road bridge of 1919 near the Shimanto River in Kochi, built on bedrock for the Kochi-Uwajima road, with a near-semicircular arch and fine coursed masonry.
Timber Western-style clinic of about 1913 in Yasuda, Kochi, with clapboard walls and a gabled porch, now part of the Yasuda Townscape Exchange Hall Nagomi museum.