Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The second gymnasium of Hamada High School in Shimane is the brick covered drill hall of 1916 of a former army regiment, a landmark by the prefectural road.

The Shimane Prefectural Budokan of 1970 in Matsue, by Kikutake Kiyonori, closes itself off beside the open library and spans its dojo with 40-metre steel trusses.

Sumi Family Residence Main House in Yasugi, Shimane: a 1906 farmhouse with nine rooms in three rows, a north doma, tiled eaves on four sides and namako-kabe walls.

Sumi Family Residence Detached Guest Room in Yasugi, Shimane: a c.1906 guest wing holding a mizuya, tea room and reception room, with its own entrance.

Sumi Family Residence Gate Row House in Yasugi, Shimane: a c.1906 gate building with a board-floored store on one side and a room with a tokonoma on the other.

Sumi Family Residence Brick Chimney in Yasugi, Shimane: a c.1906 square brick flue, 6 m tall, tapering to a lightly decorated top; its kitchen is now lost.

The Sumikawa power station of 1943 on the Hikimi River in Masuda, Shimane, sets its generator hall and offices in echelon behind plain white walls of wartime.

The Hikimi power station of 1928 in Masuda, Shimane, a working hydro station of large concrete blocks, has a Western-style front of pilasters that recalls a chapel.

An 1874 cedar gate on the south edge of an Izumo estate, facing the main house door: 3.5 meters wide, with a gabled tile roof and much of its original frame.

A thatched house of about 1874 at the heart of an Izumo estate, with a tiled lean-to all round, an earthen floor and six rooms split by a corridor. Registered 2019.

An 1874 yakuimon garden gate in front of the main house of an Izumo estate, built entirely of zelkova, with large ridge-end tiles and a turnip-shaped gable board.

An early Meiji two-story wing joined to the main house of an Izumo estate, with a rice store at the north end and a 17.5-mat hall and guest room to the south.

An 1874 clay-walled storehouse behind the main house of an Izumo estate, with a separately framed tile roof, plaster reliefs on its gables and closely set posts.

The Tsumori clinic in Matsue, Shimane, an early Showa timber building registered in 2007, has a steep half-hipped roof, a bay window and a neat Western design.

Tsuwano Catholic Church in Shimane, rebuilt in 1929 in single-spired Gothic style with a tatami floor, stands where Urakami Christians died. Registered in 1996.

An Edo-period stone wall on the west and south of a headman's estate in Gotsu, Shimane, in local rhyolite, 125 m long and 2 to 3 m high, with the Kido-michi path.

An 1847 earthen storehouse in the corner of a headman's estate in Gotsu, Shimane, once the granary of Onuki village, where unhulled rice was kept against famine.

A late Edo earthen storehouse in Gotsu, Shimane, 9.9 m long, its ground floor split for rice and straw, with a lean-to on the west where rice was polished.

An 1882 headman's house in Gotsu, Shimane, with a gabled roof of red Sekishu tiles, lean-to eaves, white plaster walls, an earthen work floor and six rooms.

A late Edo two-story earthen storehouse opposite the rear door of a headman's house in Gotsu, Shimane, with boarded floors, rough walls and bamboo roof sheathing.

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