Meiji
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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.
Built in 1892 on a Yonago street corner, the Sakaguchi Main House stacks three roof forms and has a tatami corridor, not an earthen passage. Registered in 2009.
This 1896 kura of the Sakaguchi Family Residence faces Yonago Castle's old moat, with a namako-kabe tile-lattice front and tall boards and hooded windows behind.
Built in 1892 by the kitchen of the Sakaguchi Family Residence in Yonago, this narrow storehouse pairs an earth-floored shed with a room over a charcoal cellar.
The Sasaki Family Residence New Storehouse in Hino, Tottori, is a 1900 clay-walled store with mokko-shaped shutters and a namako tile wall above its front canopy.
The Sasaki Family Residence New Reception Wing in Hino, Tottori, is a 1911 guest wing with a formal entrance and a carved transom by the carpenter Tomitsugu Seisai.
An 1874 storehouse beside the main house in Akasaki, Tottori, registered in 2015, which photographer Shiotani Teiko turned into a shop and studio after the war.
A 1906 merchant house on the coast road in Akasaki, Tottori, registered in 2015, with fine lattices across both floors and rooms fitted with choice woods and inlay.
A 1902 two-storey storehouse facing the main house across the garden in Akasaki, Tottori, registered in 2015, the newest storehouse on the Shiotani family compound.
A late Meiji public bathhouse in Kurayoshi, Tottori, registered in 2010. Trading ended in 2022, yet its house-like frontage and divided bath plan survive intact.
Two late-Meiji storehouses joined by a shared forecourt behind a Tottori merchant house, registered in 2007. Their fronts carry rare circle-pattern namako tilework.
The oldest, smallest of three storehouses behind a Tottori merchant house, registered in 2007. Its rafters are sealed in plaster; its brackets carry swirl reliefs.
The early-Meiji living wing of the Ikeuchi cotton merchants in Tottori City, registered in 2007. Plastered eaves and small side firewalls guard it from fire.
The late-Meiji shop of the Ikeuchi cotton merchants in Tottori City, registered in 2007. A deep pine beam and full-width lintels frame its wide earthen floor.
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.