Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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Early Showa tool store at the centre of Kurayoshi's Ogawa sake estate: 75 square meters, gable entry, hipped roof, a door up steps against floods. Registered 1998.
Smallest of Kurayoshi's seven Ogawa brewery buildings: a 52-square-meter early Showa storehouse with a covered porch and a stone-look base. Registered 1998.
Meiji-era bottling building behind the Ogawa house in Kurayoshi: 218 square meters, a lean-to over its west yard, registered in 1998 as a model warehouse.
Meiji-era sake pressing room in Kurayoshi on the Hachiya River: a tripled-beam roof with a pulley, and a brick wall and channel left from a lost waterwheel.
Sugar was worth a fireproof building of its own. This late Meiji storehouse in Sakaiminato holds an earthen floor and, unexpectedly, a Western-style room.
A four-and-a-half mat tea room inside a storehouse. Said to have begun as a rice mill, this Taisho building in Sakaiminato was rebuilt as reception rooms.
Eighteen metres of frontage on the Sakai Channel road. This early Meiji townhouse keeps its plastered half-storey and insect-cage windows, a rare brewer's house.
A two-storey earthen-walled storehouse turns its gable to the road, closing the street front beside the Omotani house in Sakaiminato. Iron doors, notched battens.
Built in 1830 and registered in 2024, this Tottori shrine gate has an off-centre ridge: guardians sit enclosed on one side, visitors stand in the open on the other.
Built in 1900 in Hiezu Village, Tottori, this dance stage opens on two sides, towards the path and towards the sanctuary, under a coffered ceiling. Listed in 2018.
Built in 1900 in Hiezu, Tottori, this plain gabled hall for preparing food offerings joins the worship hall by a four-bay walkway that curves. Listed in 2018.
Rebuilt in 1900 at the front of a Tottori village shrine, this eight-post gate keeps its centre bay open and holds a guardian figure in each side bay. Listed 2018.
Built about 1868 east of the sanctuary in Hiezu, Tottori, this 5.4-square-metre hall matches its western twin and carries leaves cut in openwork. Listed in 2018.
At 5.4 square metres the smallest of the eight listed buildings here, this shelf-fronted hall of about 1868 has an arched tie beam and a carved pendant. Listed 2018.
Rebuilt in 1833, the only Edo-period building in this Tottori precinct, it carries a cusped porch gable and three carved dragons under its eaves. Listed in 2018.
Built in 1900 in Hiezu Village, Tottori, this spare boarded hall stores the shrine's treasures and takes the deity when the sanctuary is repaired. Listed in 2018.
Rebuilt in 1868 in Hiezu, Tottori, this 39-square-metre sanctuary wears the gabled profile of Izumo and divides inside into three chambers. Listed in 2018.
Rebuilt after an 1889 fire, this c.1897 townhouse in Chizu-juku, Tottori, keeps a low street-front upper floor, a boat-bottom ceiling and glazed veranda. Free entry.
A 9.9-meter tiled wall of c.1897 at a merchant house in Chizu, Tottori: a bracketed gate front on the street and an earthen wall framing a guest entry on the north.
A slim single-storey barn of c.1935 at a merchant property in Chizu, Tottori, with doors on both long sides, built against its Western-style house and aligned to it.
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