Meiji
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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.
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.