Meiji
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Mikuni's 511-metre stone breakwater, designed by Dutch engineer G. A. Escher and founded on woven brushwood, was the first such work in Japan. Completed 1882.
A small early Meiji sukiya-style reception room at Aoki Ranjado in Fukui: one six-mat room with an alcove and menkawa posts, built to face the garden to the east.
A small Meiji-era dry-stone dam in Minamiechizen, Fukui, 8.5 m long, with 1.5 m boulders at its base and ever-smaller fieldstones packed up to a sagging crest.
A Meiji-era dry-stone check dam in Minamiechizen, Fukui, 28 m long and 7.5 m high, set at an angle to the stream so its waterfall hits bare rock. Registered 2004.
The shortest of the nine Akatan Sabo dams in Minamiechizen, Fukui: a Meiji-era dry-stone dam 6.0 m long on bare bedrock that steadied the stream so forest returned.
A Meiji-era dry-stone check dam at the head of the Akatan Sabo system in Minamiechizen, Fukui: 20 m long, 7.5 m high, with a slack-rope crest below a debris mass.
A small Meiji-era dry-stone dam on the upper Akatani River in Minamiechizen, Fukui, joined to a stepped 60 m stone channel that eases the bed. Registered in 2004.
The tallest of the Akatan Sabo stone dams in Minamiechizen, Fukui: a Meiji-era dry-stone wall 8.0 m high with a paved spillway and a 21 m wall at a right angle.
The lowest Akatan Sabo dam in Minamiechizen, Fukui: a Meiji-era earth dam 72 m long with a 68 m stone wall, rice paddies on its trapped silt and cedars on its face.
The largest of the nine Akatan Sabo dams in Minamiechizen, Fukui: a Meiji-era earth dam 112 m long and 11 m high, with a dry-stone foot and a 30 m stone wall.
A Meiji-era dry-stone check dam in Minamiechizen, Fukui, 27 m long and 7.0 m high, with giant stones in a turtle-shell pattern and a 24 m wall at a right angle.
Attached to the Ishida main house, this late-Meiji storehouse was framed from reused sake-brewery timber and fitted with a twelve-mat tatami parlor below. Exterior only.
This early-Meiji long gatehouse fronts the Ishida compound and is said to have been moved from a Fukui samurai residence, its gate under a tiled roof. Exterior only.
This early-Meiji storehouse on the Ishida compound carries local blue-green Shakudani stone along its roof ridge, with a sheltered forecourt on the east. Exterior only.
The Inoue Dental Clinic in Echizen, Fukui, built in 1908 after a great fire, is a storehouse-style building with Tuscan pilasters and pediments in plaster.
Built in 1868, the Main House of the Iwano Heizaburo Paper Mill in Echizen, Fukui heads a registered papermaking compound whose kumohada-mashi served Yokoyama Taikan.
In Mikuni's old geisha quarter, Uoshiro joins four buildings: a Meiji townhouse, two earthen storehouses and a Taisho parlor, now a registered-heritage restaurant.
In Mikuni's old geisha quarter, Uoshiro joins four buildings: a Meiji townhouse, two earthen storehouses and a Taisho parlor, now a registered-heritage restaurant.
In Mikuni's old geisha quarter, Uoshiro joins four buildings: a Meiji townhouse, two earthen storehouses and a Taisho parlor, now a registered-heritage restaurant.
A 2-storey earthen storehouse of c.1882 in Ono, Fukui, 53 m², with plaster-framed windows and deep eaves on angled braces for heavy snow; registered in 2018.