Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

This 1912 shop in Echizen began as two wooden storeys and gained a third through two rebuilds. Four wide windows span the upper floors. Exterior views only.

Built in 1919, this earthen-walled brewing store in Ono, Fukui, shows board siding below and white plaster above on its east gable, the face turned to Yonban-dori.

A Meiji-period earthen-walled sake store in Ono, Fukui, standing south of the shop. The Agency for Cultural Affairs singles it out for its iron eaves braces.

The smallest of five registered buildings at the Hanagaki brewery in Ono, Fukui. Built in 1889, this 41-square-metre rice store opens onto the block's back drain.

A Meiji wooden townhouse at a market crossroads in Ono, Fukui, registered in 2001. It keeps its tower-like roof monitor and still trades as the Hanagaki sake shop.

An earthen storehouse range in the Nishino compound, Echizen: Edo stores for mosquito nets and miso, with a taller paper store added about 1925; registered 2017.

A late Edo farmhouse moved from Ikeda to the Nishino papermakers' compound in Echizen in the 1910s, with a tall udatsu on its east gable; registered in 2017.

Storehouses in the Nishino compound, Echizen: an 1889 large store with triple doors, linked by a middle store to a Showa new store in black plaster; registered 2017.

A tea house of about 1909 in the Nishino papermakers' compound, Echizen, Fukui, finished in clear and black lacquer with a bare-wood alcove post; registered in 2017.

A 1937 reception wing behind the main house of the Nishino papermakers' compound in Echizen, with a fine-timber alcove and carved transoms; registered in 2017.

A 33-metre street wall of 1937 on the north side of the Nishino compound in Echizen, set on shakudani ashlar and hexagonal stonework, with diamond openings.

Baba Family Residence Main House, Echizen City, Fukui, dates from about 1891. Its gable shows exposed posts and tie beams. Registered in 2021; exterior views only.

The Baba Family Residence Storehouse in Echizen City, Fukui, was built in 1892. Plaster posts and a lintel frame its doorway. Registered 2021; exterior views only.

An early Showa brick chimney at Yasumoto Sake Brewery in Fukui that served the rice-steaming room; damaged in the 1948 earthquake, 4.7 meters of it still stand.

An early Showa bracket-arm gate at Yasumoto Sake Brewery in Fukui, 3.8 meters wide, with moulded brackets, deep eaves, paired rafters and a carved diamond pattern.

The 1888 rice store at Yasumoto Sake Brewery in Fukui: a plastered two-storey storehouse joined by a low shed with a raised ridge vent, on the old road corner.

The 1889 brewing range at Yasumoto Sake Brewery in Fukui, holding the old rice mill, rice-steaming room and a mashing hall with tanks below and a koji room above.

A 1908 two-storey brewing storehouse at Yasumoto Sake Brewery in Fukui, clad in clapboard to the eaves and held up inside by one freestanding post over its tanks.

The 1918 pressing house at Yasumoto Sake Brewery in Fukui, where mash was pressed, with a cold store and an old starter room whose clay walls were never plastered.

The 1889 shop and residence of Yasumoto Sake Brewery in Fukui, facing the old road to Ichijodani, with a shop in front and ten-mat formal rooms with kumiko transoms.

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