Taishō
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The Yurinso Nagayamon Gate in Tottori City is a 10.4 m gatehouse of about 1923, with board doors, a wicket, side rooms, white plaster and battened boards.
The Yurinso Second Storehouse in Tottori is a two-story earthen store of about 1923, first of three under one lean-to roof, once used for household equipment.
The Yurinso Annex in Tottori City is a 60-square-meter pavilion of about 1923, with a hemlock room, an arch-topped katomado window and a two-mat tea room.
The Yurinso Fourth Storehouse in Tottori is a two-story earthen store of about 1923 at the west end of a row of three, with red tiles and namako walls.
Yonago Senmon Daiten, a concrete corner building of about 1924 in central Yonago, Tottori, was the first rental office block in the city, with a stone-look front.
The upper gate of the Yonehara family in Chizu, Tottori, is an imposing early Taisho yakuimon with walls, a cross crest on its ridge and an Oki cedar ceiling.
Wakasa Railway Wakasa River Bridge, 700 metres short of the terminus, is a 9.1-metre bridge of 1930 reusing an older standard girder on granite abutments.
Former Taisha Station in Izumo, Shimane, built in 1924, is one of only three station buildings holding Important Cultural Property status. It reopened in 2026.
The Izumo Taisha Ukabashi Otorii, a 23-metre reinforced-concrete gate of 1915 over the road at the south end of Shinmon-dori, Izumo City, was registered in 2015.
Built in 1914 in the northwest corner of the Izumo Taisha precinct, this two-storey cedar treasure hall was registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2015.
The 1924 main house of the Itohara ironmasters of Okuizumo: some forty rooms over about 350 tsubo. It once lodged the lord of Matsue as its guest.
This timber house of about 1920 at Kohama, a fishing village in Masuda, has a low attic storey and lime plaster to the eaves. Registered in 2022; interior private.
Dating from 1919, the year the Imbe plant was finished, this 695 m² bed is 2.7 metres deep, with walls battered at 1 bu 7 rin and a floor falling at 1 in 150.
Dating from 1918, the year Matsue first received piped water, this 692 m² concrete filter bed is the westernmost of the Imbe plant's four founding beds.
At Matsue's Imbe plant, a straight 60-metre conduit and a round 1918 discharge well share raw water among the filter beds. Parts date from 1918 and 1929.
Built in 1918 for Matsue's first water supply, this 695 m² bed filters water through sand, gravel and brick, draining it along a 1-in-100 groove to its well.
At the east end of the Imbe plant's row of filter beds, this 1919 bed has a well housing with a half-cylindrical base and a cornice of linked flattened hexagons.
Okuno Motoke Residence Rice Storehouse, Mori, Yasugi: a small 1923 storehouse on vented stone footings, with chamfered plaster corners and a shared eave.
Okuno Motoke Residence Workshop, Mori, Yasugi: a 1923 single-story building, half sitting room and half earth-floored work area, roofed with the rice storehouse.
Okuno Motoke Residence Barn, Mori, Yasugi: a late-Taisho two-story outbuilding holding an earth-floored soy sauce and miso store and a board-floored storeroom.