Taishō
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The Yamada Ryokan New Building, a 1914 three-storey timber guest wing at Otari Onsen, bends in a dogleg with pent roofs on every floor; registered in 2001.
The Yamada Ryokan Bathroom, a two-storey bathhouse rebuilt in 1926 over an open-air spring at Otari Onsen, keeps a 2-meter cascade bath; registered in 2001.
Yokoyu River No. 51 Dam, a 1925 Home Ministry sabo weir in Yamanouchi, Nagano, is 52 m long, only 1.8 m high and faced with rough fieldstone. Registered in 2021.
Yokoyu River No. 50 Dam, a 1925 sabo weir beside the Wago Bridge in Shibu Onsen, Nagano, has a narrowed spillway between steep squared-stone corners, listed 2021.
Yokoyu River No. 39 Dam, built in 1924, is the oldest of the eight sabo dams at Shibu Onsen, Nagano: a 3.6 m weir with a lower tier fused to its downstream face.
The worship hall of Amenohinadori-no-Mikoto Shrine in Tottori, built in 1913, has a porch with a coffered ceiling and traditional layered gable pendants.
The main hall of Amenohinadori-no-Mikoto Shrine in Tottori, moved to its hilltop in 1913, is a small nagare-style hall with carved struts of modern flair.
The annex of the Iwata Family Residence in Tottori, built in 1917, opens a six-mat room to the garden and turns a plastered wall with board skirting to the street.
Ube Shrine Gate in Tottori, built in 1915: a gabled cypress-bark gate with round and square posts, a chrysanthemum carving and a swelling roof. Registered in 2024.
Ube Shrine Lattice Fence in Tottori: a 61-meter copper-roofed fence of 1922 on a cut-stone base, with slatted windows enclosing the main hall. Registered in 2024.
Taisho-era brewing storehouse of Kurayoshi's Ogawa family: 237 square meters, a king post truss roof, and a doorway onto the Hachiya River. Registered in 1998.
Early Taisho shop and home of Kurayoshi's Ogawa brewing family: 360 square meters, with a Western reception room bearing a Corinthian order. Registered in 1998.
A four-and-a-half mat tea room inside a storehouse. Said to have begun as a rice mill, this Taisho building in Sakaiminato was rebuilt as reception rooms.
This 1926 annex of the Sakaguchi Family Residence in Yonago has two hip-and-gable roofs meeting in a T and a 14-meter corridor whose wall doubles as the street wall.
The late Taisho gate and wall of the Sakaguchi Family Residence in Yonago: a 1.6-meter bracketed gate and 6.9 meters of white plaster wall on a cut-stone footing.
Built in 1914 as the town hall of Chizu, Tottori, Shimomachi Kominkan is a white clapboard office with a pedimented porch and iron vent grilles, registered in 2002.
Completed in 1916, the worship and offering halls of Sugitani Shrine in Tottori enclose a single tall tatami room and were registered as cultural property in 2024.
Built in 1915 above the drained bed of Nikko Pond, the 7.3-square-metre main hall of Sugitani Shrine in Tottori was registered as a cultural property in 2024.
The 1920 main hall of Daijuji in Yazu, Tottori, registered in 2024, a tall hip-and-gable hall of local timber with a richly carved porch, the oldest building in the precinct.
The Tachikawa Inari Shrine Middle Gate in Tottori is a small 1921 gate on the steps below the main hall, with a gently curved roof, registered as a model of design.