Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A 1910 townhouse on the old Hokkoku highway in Sabae, Fukui, once the office of Sakai Shōten (now Sakai Ovex), with a lattice front, a strongroom and plaster above.

An early Meiji kagura-date townhouse in Mikuni, Fukui: a gable-entered block behind a side-entered front, with fine lattices and wing walls, in the old port streets.

A c.1951 guest wing on a Maruoka estate in Fukui, with linked reception rooms, a tea room, a richly fitted alcove, a raised coffered ceiling and garden verandas.

A c.1930 carved yakuimon gate with wicket doors and a 29 m board wall with arabesque openwork, forming the formal west front of a Maruoka estate in Fukui.

A c.1951 concrete side gate with an arched iron bar and a 27 m wall in sprayed and washed mortar, along the street on the southwest of a Maruoka estate in Fukui.

A mid-Meiji storehouse in Sabae, Fukui, said to date from 1891 when Sakai Shōten was founded, with a Shakudani stone base and original namako tilework on one wall.

An early Meiji storehouse behind a townhouse in Mikuni, Fukui, with tall walls sealed but for one small window and a passage under its lean-to to the river.

An early Meiji cargo storehouse at the back of a Mikuni townhouse plot in Fukui, with a passage to a back door and a weatherboarded gable facing the Kuzuryū River.

A small c.1930 store for rice and farm tools at the southwest corner of a Maruoka estate in Fukui, with a plaster eaves band, high weatherboards and a crested gable.

A c.1930 udekimon gate with doors of single zelkova boards and a 12 m plastered wall running to the west storehouse, on the south edge of a Maruoka estate in Fukui.

A c.1930 reinforced-concrete villa on a Maruoka estate in Fukui, with mock-stone walls, a karahafu-shaped pediment bearing the crest and alternating arched windows.

Built in 1886, this two-storey building at Shinyosha Paper Mill in Echizen, Fukui, dries washi on boards upstairs, has a dryer room and once held a rest area.

Built in 1899, this building at Shinyosha Paper Mill in Echizen, Fukui, cleaned fiber downstairs and finished paper upstairs, both floors lit by rows of windows.

The Shinyosha Paper Mill Papermaking Building is a late-Meiji vat room in Echizen, Fukui: one 19 m room lit by continuous windows and still used to make paper.

This mid-Meiji building at Shinyosha Paper Mill in Echizen, Fukui, held a boiler room below and a paper-glazing roller room above, where Meiji rollers survive.

Sugihara Shoten Front Gate is a late Taisho yakuimon gate, 2.3 meters wide, that fronts a washi merchant's compound in Echizen, Fukui. Registered in 2023.

Sugihara Shoten Main House is a 1925 washi merchant's home in Echizen, Fukui: a gable-entry house with eight rooms and lacquered posts, registered in 2023.

Sugihara Shoten Office is a 1933 storehouse-style office of a washi merchant in Echizen, Fukui, with four lattice windows facing the street; still in use today.

Sugihara Shoten West Storehouse is a large 1917 plastered store in Echizen, Fukui, converted in 2018 into the Washiya gallery and shop, open by reservation.

Sugihara Shoten Ossuary is a tiny 1931 reinforced concrete hall in Echizen, Fukui, with a pyramidal copper roof and posts and rafters modelled in concrete.

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