Edo

Tottori · 江戸

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43 total Tottori Edo Period 1603 – 1868
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Ochidani Shrine Buildings, now Tottori Toshogu
Tottori 江戸前期
Ochidani Shrine Buildings, now Tottori Toshogu

Four Edo-period shrine buildings in Tottori Prefecture. The listing here keeps an older name, while the owner itself now uses a much newer one instead.

Fukuda Family Residence (Kamikodani, Tottori City, Tottori Prefecture)
Tottori 江戸前期
Fukuda Family Residence (Kamikodani, Tottori City, Tottori Prefecture)

A farmhouse residence in Kagodani, Tottori Prefecture. Its own reading field there covers the bracketed location set within its own name here as well.

Yabe Family Residence (Hatto Town, Yazu District, Tottori Prefecture)
Tottori 江戸前期
Yabe Family Residence (Hatto Town, Yazu District, Tottori Prefecture)

The Yabe Family Residence in Yazu, Tottori, a large thatched hip-and-gable farmhouse of the early Edo period (1615 to 1660), is one of the oldest in the prefecture.

Ishio Family Residence Main House
Tottori 江戸
Ishio Family Residence Main House

The main house of the Ishio merchants in Shikano, Tottori, from the late Edo period (1830 to 1868), fronts the old road with fine lattices and carved brackets.

Iwata Family Residence Main House
Tottori 江戸
Iwata Family Residence Main House

The main house of the Iwata Family Residence in Tottori is a late-Edo townhouse 8 bays wide, with a deep lean-to, projecting lattice, slit windows and red tiles.

Endo Family Residence Front Gate
Tottori 江戸
Endo Family Residence Front Gate

Gabled pantile front gate of the Endo estate in Bōryō, Daisen, dated to 1860 by a ridge tablet: four posts in a row, wicket doors, board walls and bracing posts.

Endo Family Residence Household Goods Storehouse
Tottori 江戸
Endo Family Residence Household Goods Storehouse

A late Edo two-storey storehouse at the back of the Endo estate in Bōryō, Daisen: weatherboarded sides, a white plaster east front with namako-kabe tile panels.

Endo Family Residence Main House
Tottori 江戸
Endo Family Residence Main House

Late Edo main house of the Endo family, retainers of Daisen-ji, in Bōryō, Daisen: a 264 m² thatched hipped roof, staggered four-room plan and formal entrance.

Endo Family Residence Detached Room
Tottori 江戸
Endo Family Residence Detached Room

An 1860 annex beside the Endo estate's front gate in Bōryō, Daisen, probably a retirement room: latticed windows to the road, two 6-mat rooms off a central passage.

Kachimi Shrine Zuishinmon Gate
Tottori 江戸
Kachimi Shrine Zuishinmon Gate

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.

Kayashima Shrine Offering Hall and Worship Hall
Tottori 江戸
Kayashima Shrine Offering Hall and Worship Hall

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.

Sasaki Family Residence Grain Storehouse
Tottori 江戸
Sasaki Family Residence Grain Storehouse

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.

Sasaki Family Residence Main House
Tottori 江戸
Sasaki Family Residence Main House

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.

Joninji Temple Main Hall
Tottori 江戸
Joninji Temple Main Hall

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.

Tachikawa Inari Shrine Worship Hall and Offering Hall
Tottori 江戸
Tachikawa Inari Shrine Worship Hall and Offering Hall

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
Tottori 江戸
Nagata Shrine Heihaiden

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.

Nagata Shrine Main Hall
Tottori 江戸
Nagata Shrine Main Hall

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.

Hanya Funakoshi Family Residence East Storehouse
Tottori 江戸
Hanya Funakoshi Family Residence East Storehouse

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.

Higashikadowaki Family Residence Main House
Tottori 江戸
Higashikadowaki Family Residence 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.

Maniji Main Hall
Tottori 江戸
Maniji Main Hall

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.