Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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The Saito Family Residence Main House in Sabae, Fukui, is a late Edo headman's home with a reception wing said to be built for the lord's visit. Registered in 2016.
The Saito Family Residence New Storehouse in Sabae, Fukui, is a 1936 storehouse whose walls look like stone below and white plaster above. Registered 2016.
The Saito Family Residence Middle Storehouse in Sabae, Fukui, is a 1921 storehouse with a plaster west face and a stone-look mortar east face. Registered 2016.
The Saito Family Residence Annex in Sabae, Fukui, is a 1928 two-storey house built for family life, with a fan-shaped transom and a round window. Registered 2016.
The Saito Family Residence East Gate in Sabae, Fukui, is a late Edo zelkova bracket-arm gate built to lead honoured guests to the reception wing. Registered 2016.
The Saito Family Residence Gateposts in Sabae, Fukui, are late Meiji posts of Shakudani tuff, 3.1 metres tall, facing the old Hokuriku Road. Registered 2016.
Late Meiji house at the core of a businessman's estate in Maruoka, Fukui, moved in 1923, with a gabled porch and an upstairs room under a bent coffered ceiling.
A c.1930 storehouse for household goods north of the main house on a Maruoka estate in Fukui, with plaster walls, high weatherboards and iron-shuttered openings.
A c.1930 storehouse in the northwest corner of a Maruoka estate in Fukui, with notched weatherboards, a crest on its west gable and rising beams; repaired 2023.
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.
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