Meiji
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The Iida house in Shikano, Tottori, a late Meiji townhouse (1898 to 1912) moved out to a farming village, keeps its bracketed eaves and its old lift-up door.
The Ikuta family house in the mountains of Nanbu, Tottori, built around 1902, pairs bold beams over its earth floor with a fine main room of choice timber.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.