Jinpū-kaku Hall, Folk crafts of Tottori prefecture

This building was built by the fourteenth head of the Ikeda Family of Tottori in 1907. It was designed by Katayama Tōkuma who also designed the Akasaka Palace. The thatched, wooden whiting structure of two floors is in the French Renaissance style. Yoshida Shōya devoted himself as an activist of the Mingei movement to the designation of the building as a cultural property.