Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The Aizanso Main House in Echizen, Fukui, is a 1916 timber house with a tatami veranda on the garden and an upper floor facing Mount Hino, registered in 2017.

The Aizanso Tea House in Echizen, Fukui, is a four-and-a-half-mat tea room of about 1928 mixing fine timber with bark-on red pine and bamboo. Registered in 2017.

The Aizanso Second Storehouse in Echizen, Fukui, is a street-front storehouse of about 1916 with five-step plaster doors, now a crafts gallery. Registered in 2017.

The Aizanso Annex in Echizen, Fukui, begun around 1916 and enlarged in 1942, pairs an old room with a glazed corner and a later room with a round window.

The Aizanso Waiting Arbor in Echizen, Fukui, is a 3.0-metre tea-garden bench of about 1928, with a long-sloped roof and lattice window angled to the garden.

The Aizanso Gate and Wall in Echizen, Fukui, dates from about 1916: a 1.8-metre gate with grouped rafters and a wall boarded outside and bark-faced within.

A two-storey plastered storehouse at Aoki Ranjado in Fukui, built around a middle storehouse of 1800, where the family still makes its herbal liquor Ranjashu.

A small early Meiji sukiya-style reception room at Aoki Ranjado in Fukui: one six-mat room with an alcove and menkawa posts, built to face the garden to the east.

A tiny 1918 two-storey annex at Aoki Ranjado in Fukui with yellow plaster walls and an upstairs four-and-a-half-mat room that looks over a railing to the garden.

A small Meiji-era dry-stone dam in Minamiechizen, Fukui, 8.5 m long, with 1.5 m boulders at its base and ever-smaller fieldstones packed up to a sagging crest.

A Meiji-era dry-stone check dam in Minamiechizen, Fukui, 28 m long and 7.5 m high, set at an angle to the stream so its waterfall hits bare rock. Registered 2004.

The shortest of the nine Akatan Sabo dams in Minamiechizen, Fukui: a Meiji-era dry-stone dam 6.0 m long on bare bedrock that steadied the stream so forest returned.

A Meiji-era dry-stone check dam at the head of the Akatan Sabo system in Minamiechizen, Fukui: 20 m long, 7.5 m high, with a slack-rope crest below a debris mass.

A small Meiji-era dry-stone dam on the upper Akatani River in Minamiechizen, Fukui, joined to a stepped 60 m stone channel that eases the bed. Registered in 2004.

The tallest of the Akatan Sabo stone dams in Minamiechizen, Fukui: a Meiji-era dry-stone wall 8.0 m high with a paved spillway and a 21 m wall at a right angle.

The lowest Akatan Sabo dam in Minamiechizen, Fukui: a Meiji-era earth dam 72 m long with a 68 m stone wall, rice paddies on its trapped silt and cedars on its face.

The largest of the nine Akatan Sabo dams in Minamiechizen, Fukui: a Meiji-era earth dam 112 m long and 11 m high, with a dry-stone foot and a 30 m stone wall.

A Meiji-era dry-stone check dam in Minamiechizen, Fukui, 27 m long and 7.0 m high, with giant stones in a turtle-shell pattern and a 24 m wall at a right angle.

Attached to the Ishida main house, this late-Meiji storehouse was framed from reused sake-brewery timber and fitted with a twelve-mat tatami parlor below. Exterior only.

The Ishida Residence main house on Fukui's Echizen coast is a late-Edo timber home under russet Echizen tile, built by a family of village headmen. Exterior view only.

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