Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Completed in 1928 at Yasui in Nanto, Toyama, this registered wooden house kept an unfinished second floor that leaves its roof frame and eaves levers open to view.

Built in the early Meiji era and registered in 2019, this small earthen storehouse in Nanto, Toyama turns a trowelled relief of waves and a turtle toward the lane.

A rice storehouse of about 1872 in Futakuchi, Imizu: a stone ground floor topped by a stacked-timber upper storey under a separate tiled roof. Registered in 2023.

A 40-meter board fence of 1872 wrapping the main house in Futakuchi, Imizu, with a guest gate on the street and wormholed ship planks by the garden. Registered 2023.

Built in 1872 in Futakuchi, Imizu, this azumadachi main house shows a vast gable of posts and tie beams, with lacquered timbers in its hall. Registered in 2023.

A late Taisho storehouse in Futakuchi, Imizu: plaster walls over a washed-mortar base, iron doors and a separate tiled roof, about 50 years after the main house.

The Aizanso Stone Storehouse in Echizen, Fukui, was built in 1936 of local Shakudani stone, with iron doors and a steel roof truss. Registered in 2017 at Aizanso.

The Aizanso First Storehouse in Echizen, Fukui, is a corner storehouse of about 1916, closed to the street but for one door and plastered up under its eaves.

The Aizanso Kura Zashiki in Echizen, Fukui, is a 1928 storehouse with a hinoki reception room, washed-aggregate walls and scrolled steel brackets. Registered 2017.

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.