Meiji
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The lower gate of the Yonehara family in Chizu, Tottori, built in about 1906, is a set-back side gate whose glazed ridge-end tile bears the family's quince crest.
The main house of the Yonehara family in Chizu, Tottori, built in about 1906, is a large corner house with black plaster walls, lattice windows and many fine rooms.
The storehouse of the Yonehara family in Chizu, Tottori, built in the mid-Meiji years, shows fine namako walls and the crest of the family who owned the plot before.
Wakasa Railway Iwabuchi River Bridge crosses a Hatto tributary at an angle on two cut-down Meiji girders moved here in 1930, with J-shaped and straight stiffeners.
Wakasa Railway Hosomi River Bridge reuses wrought-iron girders of Japan's first standard design, drawn up by British engineers and cut down for this 1930 crossing.