Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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The storehouse of the Ishio house in Shikano, Tottori, built in the late Meiji period (1898 to 1912), has plastered walls and a fine namako-tile front.
The gate and wall of the Ishio house in Shikano, Tottori, from the early Showa period (1926 to 1945), give a great merchant house its weighty frontage.
The main house of the Iwata Family Residence in Tottori is a late-Edo townhouse 8 bays wide, with a deep lean-to, projecting lattice, slit windows and red tiles.
The tea house of the Iwata Family Residence in Tottori, built in 1900, opens its northeast side to the garden under an open lean-to around a small tea room.
The annex of the Iwata Family Residence in Tottori, built in 1917, opens a six-mat room to the garden and turns a plastered wall with board skirting to the street.
Ube Shrine Gate in Tottori, built in 1915: a gabled cypress-bark gate with round and square posts, a chrysanthemum carving and a swelling roof. Registered in 2024.
Ube Shrine Lattice Fence in Tottori: a 61-meter copper-roofed fence of 1922 on a cut-stone base, with slatted windows enclosing the main hall. Registered in 2024.
Ube Shrine Worship Hall in Tottori: a hip-and-gable, gable-entry hall with a lattice gable and coffered ceiling, dated 1884 by the state and registered in 2024.
Ube Shrine Main Hall in Tottori, built in 1898: a gabled cypress-bark sanctuary with plain brackets and a crested door, registered in 2024, seen through its fence.
Gabled pantile front gate of the Endo estate in Bōryō, Daisen, dated to 1860 by a ridge tablet: four posts in a row, wicket doors, board walls and bracing posts.
A late Edo two-storey storehouse at the back of the Endo estate in Bōryō, Daisen: weatherboarded sides, a white plaster east front with namako-kabe tile panels.
Late Edo main house of the Endo family, retainers of Daisen-ji, in Bōryō, Daisen: a 264 m² thatched hipped roof, staggered four-room plan and formal entrance.
Early Showa side gate on the east edge of the Endo estate in Bōryō, Daisen: a plain udekimon with a 1.8 m frontage and 27 m of timber-framed wall turning a corner.
An 1860 annex beside the Endo estate's front gate in Bōryō, Daisen, probably a retirement room: latticed windows to the road, two 6-mat rooms off a central passage.
The 1897 main house of the Ota family in Yazu, Tottori, has an earth-floored entrance and lacquered reception rooms with a pierced transom of deer and maple.
Built in 1933 to receive the head of the Soto Zen school, the Shindate wing of the Ota Family Residence in Yazu, Tottori, is a guest wing of bare cypress and cedar.
The gate row house of the Ota Family Residence in Yazu, Tottori, built about 1897, had its east room turned into the village post office in 1915 and is now a café.
Taisho-era brewing storehouse of Kurayoshi's Ogawa family: 237 square meters, a king post truss roof, and a doorway onto the Hachiya River. Registered in 1998.
Early Showa storehouse of Kurayoshi's Ogawa family: a two-storey kura raised to three against floods, 62 square meters, pickles below and bedding above.
Early Taisho shop and home of Kurayoshi's Ogawa brewing family: 360 square meters, with a Western reception room bearing a Corinthian order. Registered in 1998.
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