Meiji
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Shokoji's main hall in Hakusan, Ishikawa, a large Shin Buddhist sanctuary of 1898, has round columns and Inami-carved transoms; a registered cultural property.
Shingyoji Temple Shoin in Nanao, Ishikawa: the attendants' wing of an imperial rest house built at Wakura Onsen in 1909, now under restoration after the Noto quake.
Built in 1882, the Suzuki Family Residence Storehouse in Komatsu survived the great fire of 1930; its plastered walls and gabled roof recall a Meiji merchant home.
Sojiji Temple Soin Hakusan Well, a 1912 open well house in Wajima with fan rafters and three-bearing brackets, collapsed in the 2024 quake and now waits in storage.
The main house of the Hatta family in northern Kanazawa, a tall farmhouse of 1905 built of fine timber, shows a great azumadachi gable to the village lane.
The west storehouse of the Hatta family house in northern Kanazawa, built in 1874, has an asymmetrical roof swept low to the north and eaves carried on braces.
The south storehouse of the Hatta house in northern Kanazawa, built in 1890, is a small store with a separate tiled roof that frames the back of the property.
The entrance of Hoenji, the Maeda family temple in Kanazawa, is a large gate of about 1899 with a dragon-carved strut, flanked by tiled walls on fine stone bases.
The main hall of Hoenji, the Maeda family temple in Kanazawa, was rebuilt in about 1872: a large Soto Zen hall with a curved-gable porch and eight rooms inside.
A c.1902 timber gate and roofed earthen wall in Kanazawa that divide the main house's north garden from its forecourt. Gate 2.0 m wide, wall 5.4 m. Registered 2006.
A two-storey 1882 house in Kanazawa, moved in 1902, with its gable end, large door and bracketed eaves facing forward. Registered as a cultural property in 2006.
Kanazawa's Motooka West Storehouse of 1872, the oldest building on the plot: cut-stone footings, a stone-faced base and a corridor to the house. Registered 2006.
Built in 1891 for a church in central Kanazawa and moved to Wakakusa-machi in 1955, this timber chapel leaves its light roof trusses open to view. Registered 2006.