Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

This 1741 worship hall and offering hall at Tachikawa Inari Shrine in Tottori, once part of Kitano Shrine, has a karahafu porch with stacked kaerumata carvings.

Tachikawa Inari Shrine Main Hall in Tottori City is a tall, plain gabled sanctuary of 1921 with a railed veranda and inoko-sasu gables, registered in 2014.

A mid-Meiji storehouse range in Tottori joining a daily-goods store, a miso store and a former maids' room, its lane side boarded over plaster; registered in 1998.

A mid-Meiji row of three linked storehouses in Tottori that held the Yoshimura family's rice, doors facing the garden and boards on the lane; registered in 1998.

A small mid-Meiji storehouse in Tottori built against the main house, with pent roofs front and back, said to have been moved and turned in 1936; registered in 1998.

A mid-Meiji merchant house in Tottori with a namako-walled upper floor and plaster-sealed eaves, a local landmark registered in 1998 and said to have moved in 1936.

A mid-Meiji roofed wall and gateway in Tottori joining two storehouses of the Yoshimura compound, its opening widened from 1.8 to 2.7 m for cars; registered in 1998.

A mid-Meiji single-storey annex in Tottori where carpenters and plasterers kept the Yoshimura buildings in repair, with a head clerk's room; registered in 1998.

The Honmachi fire station of 1941 on the Chizu highway in Tottori, a clapboarded house with a lookout tower, sends a ladder up its front and through the gable.

The Yamagata Elementary School in Chizu, Tottori, an 81-metre timber building of 1942 by the Kitamata River, runs a band of windows along its whole west side.

The Tokoen hotel at Kaike Onsen, Yonago, designed by Kikutake Kiyonori in 1964, hangs its guest floors from six columns, a high point of Metabolist design.

Nagata Shrine Prayer Hall, built in 1959, is the newest and largest of the eight registered buildings; its bowed porch was taken from the 1924 shrine office in 2007.

Nagata Shrine Shinsenjo of 1915, moved here in 1924, is laid out like a small house for preparing offerings and serves as a temporary hall during main hall repairs.

The Nagata Shrine Shinmon Gate is a 1935 hinoki yakuimon, 3.3 metres wide, with round main posts and no doors, whose deep roof gives the approach a solemn frame.

The Nagata Shrine Lattice Fence runs 41 metres round the main hall in Tottori: a 1932 hinoki screen of diamond-section slats on a three-step stone base.

Built new in 1924, the Nagata Shrine Middle Gate links main hall and heihaiden; its round posts, frog-leg strut and swelling roof reflect Meiji-era standard designs.

Nagata Shrine Temizusha is a 1929 open pavilion roofed in tile, the only one of the eight, sheltering a stone basin first set up at the shrine's old site in 1778.

Nagata Shrine Heihaiden in Tottori joins a worship hall and offering hall in one plain, square-posted building, moved here in 1924; visitors enter it for prayers.

The Edo-period main hall of Nagata Shrine in Tottori, moved here in 1924, is the only one of eight registered buildings judged a model of form for its gabled porch.

Small late Meiji gate between two storehouses of the Funakoshi estate in Yonago: 2.7 m wide, with a slatted transom, carved two-tier brackets and red bengara paint.

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