Taishō
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The Hei-Haiden (offertory and worship hall) of Amenohinatori-no-mikoto Shrine in Tottori City is a Taisho-era wooden shrine building constructed in 1913. Featuring an irimoya-style gable-end entrance with a distinctive cusped gable porch and traditional bargeboard carvings with surviving original-scale drawings, it was registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2022. The building forms an integral part of this ancient Engishiki-listed shrine's historic landscape.
The Main Hall of Amenohinadori no Mikoto Shrine, located atop a hill in the Ohata district of Tottori City, is a Shikinaisha listed in the Engishiki Jimmeicho (927 AD), rebuilt in 1913 during the Taisho era. This elegant ikensha nagare-zukuri structure with a copper-plate roof features restrained yet refined carved ornamentation. With its original design documents preserved, it was registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2022 for its value in documenting modern shrine construction practices.
A four-and-a-half mat tea room inside a storehouse. Said to have begun as a rice mill, this Taisho building in Sakaiminato was rebuilt as reception rooms.
The Yonago Senmon Daiten in Doshomachi, Yonago City, Tottori Prefecture, is a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property completed around 1924. Designed by Hara Yasokichi as the city's first rental commercial building, this three-story reinforced concrete landmark features a stone-style facade, an arched entrance, and the original Yonago Bank emblem, telling the story of Sanin's commercial heyday.