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Eight Taisho- and Showa-period buildings in Tottori Prefecture. Their own floor areas there are written out in full in Chinese numerals even now today.
A Showa-period bank building in Hino, Tottori Prefecture, Japan. Its own front over there is quite set out in the members of the West even so even now.
Wakasa Railway Hayabusa Station, a 1929 timber building with a 97-metre platform, was briefly the terminus in 1930 and keeps its original waiting room and walls.
The gate and wall of the Ishio house in Shikano, Tottori, from the early Showa period (1926 to 1945), give a great merchant house its weighty frontage.
Early Showa side gate on the east edge of the Endo estate in Bōryō, Daisen: a plain udekimon with a 1.8 m frontage and 27 m of timber-framed wall turning a corner.
Built in 1933 to receive the head of the Soto Zen school, the Shindate wing of the Ota Family Residence in Yazu, Tottori, is a guest wing of bare cypress and cedar.
Early Showa storehouse of Kurayoshi's Ogawa family: a two-storey kura raised to three against floods, 62 square meters, pickles below and bedding above.
Early Showa tool store at the centre of Kurayoshi's Ogawa sake estate: 75 square meters, gable entry, hipped roof, a door up steps against floods. Registered 1998.
Smallest of Kurayoshi's seven Ogawa brewery buildings: a 52-square-meter early Showa storehouse with a covered porch and a stone-look base. Registered 1998.
A slim single-storey barn of c.1935 at a merchant property in Chizu, Tottori, with doors on both long sides, built against its Western-style house and aligned to it.
A c.1935 two-storey clapboard house behind a merchant home in Chizu, Tottori, with Stick Style window pilasters; once a church, since 2001 a free film museum.
The Former Hino Bridge in Yonago, Tottori, a 366-metre six-span steel truss of 1929 over the Hino River, has arched portal frames and is open to pedestrians.
The former Yoshida clinic in Tottori, a storehouse-style building of 1952 designed by its owner, mixes Eastern and Western details in a folk-craft spirit.
The former Kakubancho post office in central Yonago, Tottori, a timber building of 1935, keeps a Western-style front of weatherboards and tall windows on its street.
Completed in 1937, this is the tallest of five stone-faced erosion-control dams on the upper Shimizu River. A square weep hole pierces the base of its spillway.
Completed in 1939, this low stone dam anchors the top of the Shimizu River group above Kurayoshi. Its weathered masonry sinks into a forest replanted after erosion.
Completed in 1938 and 80 metres long, this is the longest Shimizu River dam. A carved stone plaque on its left abutment bears the crest of the Home Ministry.
The lowest of the Shimizu River dams, completed in 1938. An irrigation channel through its left abutment lets one wall both hold back flood sediment and feed the fields.
The last of the Shimizu River dams, completed in 1944 at a bend in the stream. Its spillway is shifted aside to ease the current, with Mt. Hiruzen on the horizon.
Completed in 1951 on the upper Hiketa River in Tottori, Somagoya Arch Dam is a stone-faced concrete sabo dam, 24 metres long and 10 metres high. Registered in 2004.