Edo

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.

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.

The Sasaki Family Residence Grain Storehouse in Hino, Tottori, is an 1829 clay-walled store with a detached roof and two doorways, one capped by a stone lintel.

The Sasaki Family Residence Main House in Hino, Tottori, is a late Edo farmhouse with a broad earth floor and a staggered four-room plan, registered in 2017.

Completed in 1818 and rebuilt in 1838, Joninji's main hall in Tottori keeps cherry-birch pillars, a coved coffered ceiling and a hybrid altar. Registered in 2008.

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.

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.

Late Edo earthen storehouse in the southeast corner of the Funakoshi estate in Yonago: 32 m², plastered to the eaves, one window, and older than the main house.

The Higashikadowaki main house in Tokorogo, Daisen, is a 9-ken farmhouse whose ridge tag dates it to 1818 and names its carpenter, a benchmark for late Edo houses.

The Maniji Main Hall in Tottori, built in 1860 for Taishakuten, layers a dormer gable over a curved porch carved with dragons and waves; registered in 2014.

A late-Edo farmhouse at the center of the Mikamo estate in Tokorogo, Daisen: 19 m by 12 m, with a low upper floor, white plaster walls and stone on the ridge.

An 1861 plastered storehouse by the back gate of the Mikamo estate in Tokorogo, Daisen: two storeys, 5.9 m by 4.0 m, with a raised detached roof and ridge stones.

An 1854 farmhouse at the center of the Yatagai estate in Hoki, Tottori, with an earth floor to the north, two rows of rooms to the south and a loft over both.

Kandenan and Kogetsutei in Matsue, Shimane, are tea rooms built around 1792 to daimyo Matsudaira Fumai's own drawing. A 42cm board keeps the one-mat room open.

The halls of Takuhi Shrine on Nishinoshima in the Oki Islands, built 1673 to 1902 and set into the mountain rock, honour a guardian of sailors on the Sea of Japan.

A late Edo farmhouse in Yoshika, Shimane, 7.6 by 6.0 metres with a thatched hip-and-gable roof, showing the form of a small ordinary farmhouse. Designated in 1969.

An 18th-century farmhouse in Unnan, Shimane, and an Important Cultural Property. Its great hall is held open without posts by raised nobori-bari beams.

On the rugged island of Dōgo in Japan's remote Oki Islands stands Mizuwakasu Shrine, the highest-ranked shrine of the former Oki Province. Its Main Hall, rebuilt in 1795, is a nationally designated Important Cultural Property celebrated for its rare Oki-zukuri architectural style — a hybrid found nowhere else in Japan. With its dramatic thatched gable roof, ancient pine-lined approach, classical sumo ring, and biennial festival of yamabiki and yabusame, this shrine offers travelers a profound encounter with island spirituality and over a thousand years of recorded history.

The main hall of Miho Shrine at Mihonoseki, Matsue, built in 1813, joins two taisha-style halls for Ebisu and Mihotsuhime, the largest and oldest of its kind.