Edo
Fukui · 江戸Browse Fukui’s cultural heritage from the Edo period (1603 – 1868). Filter by type and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.
Built in 1843, Otaki Shrine's joined main and worship halls carry a cypress-bark roof called Japan's most complex, raised for the paper goddess Kawakami-gozen.
A late-Edo thatched farmhouse in Katsuyama, Fukui, built by Eiheiji carpenters for a headman. Its winged front-hall plan marks the peak of the Echizen tradition.
Kehi Jingū's vermilion Great Torii in Tsuruga, Fukui, dates to 1645. Nearly 11 m tall, it survived the raid that burned the shrine and is now its oldest building.
Founded in 1658 as the Matsudaira mortuary temple, Daianji in Fukui City has five halls designated in 2008 and is midway through a repair campaign you can watch.
A late-Edo farmhouse of about 1809, moved to a park in Echizen, Fukui. Its sideways-T plan with two projecting wings is the most developed of this regional farmhouse form.
Fukui's oldest farmhouse, known as Senko no Ie, raised on hand-hewn chestnut posts, three of them forked matabashira, with an irimoya front and a hipped rear roof.
The Former Hashimoto Residence in Ono, Fukui, is an early-18th-century farmhouse with snow-country framing, a large earthen-floored niwa, and rare earth-seated rooms.
The Horiguchi Residence in Ikeda, Fukui, is an early-18th-century farmhouse using five mata-bashira, naturally forked pillars, the most in the prefecture.
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.
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.
The oldest Ishida storehouse, this late-Edo building has a miso lean-to whose east wall is namako-kabe, a grid of black tile and white plaster. Exterior only.
Built in 1835 and moved from a hill hamlet in 2017, this two-sleeve farmhouse at the Echizen Ancient Kiln Museum was registered in 2018 and is still in daily use.
The Former Wakasaya Inn in Minamiechizen, Fukui, is a late Edo inn in the Imajo post town on the Hokkoku Kaido, with a latticed front and guest rooms upstairs.
The Former Furukawaya Sobei House in Obama, Fukui, a shipping merchant's townhouse of 1865 with street lattices and plastered side walls, is a rare Edo survivor.
An 1823 former inn at Itadori on the Hokkoku Kaido in Fukui. Its thatched helmet roof faces the old road, three guest rooms behind an earth floor. Exterior only.
The Koizumi family main house in Echizen, Fukui, a late Edo farmhouse, combines a thatched gable-entry roof with tiled gables around a plan centred on the main room.
The Saito Family Residence Rice Storehouse is a tall late Edo storehouse on the old Hokuriku Road in Sabae, Fukui, plaster above, boards below. Registered 2016.
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 East Gate in Sabae, Fukui, is a late Edo zelkova bracket-arm gate built to lead honoured guests to the reception wing. Registered 2016.
Tangando Soan in Fukui City, a domain physician's retreat of about 1846, joins a tea room to a storehouse finished in the sukiya manner with a boat-hull ceiling.