Meiji
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Yoganji Temple Bell Tower in Echizen City is an 1890 Zen-style belfry on a 2.1-metre stone base, with carved lions and dragons and fan rafters rising at the corners.
Yoganji Temple Audience Hall in Echizen City lines up three tatami rooms toward a great alcove, a wing built to receive the head of Nishi Hongwanji in Fukui.
Yoganji Temple Storehouse in Echizen City is a two-storey storehouse of about 1897 in white plaster and battened boards, closing the northwest corner of the temple.
Yoganji Temple Main Hall in Echizen City is a hipped-roof Shin Buddhist hall rebuilt after the 1852 fire and completed in 1902, with a widened nave and gilded altar.
The Nanafushigido Main House at the Rennyo Shonin memorial museum in Awara, Fukui, is a large 1881 farmhouse of the Etchu azumadachi type, moved here in 1979.
A Meiji-era restaurant wing in Sabae, Fukui, moved in the early Showa years, with an upstairs banquet hall, red walls, fan-shaped windows and Shakudani stone paving.