Meiji
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The Former Ishikawa Second Middle School in Kanazawa, built in 1899 with spires and pediments, is an Important Cultural Property and now a museum of local life.
A red brick schoolhouse in Kanazawa, completed in 1891, was designed by Yamaguchi Hanroku, who trained in France. Designated an Important Cultural Property in 1969.
The Akakura family townhouse in Nanao, Ishikawa, from the late Meiji period before 1912, keeps a classic front with upper-floor lattice and short side fire walls.
A registered Meiji folk house on Kanazawa's wooded northern edge, the Itō Residence raises an azumadachi gable of stacked beams and white-plastered ties above a vast 42-mat earthen hall.
The Chikkeikan of Enuma Shrine in Kaga, Ishikawa, built in 1900 and moved here around 1966, is a two-storey hall with a raised room for formal reception.
The main house of the Kitaoji Rosanjin Former Residence, an early Meiji townhouse at Yamashiro Onsen, Kaga, was Rosanjin's workplace and is open to visitors.
The storehouse of the Kitaoji Rosanjin Former Residence at Yamashiro Onsen, Kaga, built in 1890, stands at right angles to the main house on the west of the plot.
Built about 1870 for a Kitamae shipping family in Hashitate, Kaga, the 369-square-metre Zorokuen Main House was registered in 1999 as difficult to reproduce.
Built in 1890 behind the main house at Zorokuen in Kaga, this 30-square-metre storehouse carries white plaster above and namako tiling below, unlike its neighbours.
Built in 1890 along the front road at Zorokuen in Kaga, this 38-square-metre store kept miso below and documents above behind almost windowless walls.
Built in 1890 at the north end of the storehouse row at Zorokuen in Kaga, this 26-square-metre store on dressed stone shows the ordinary form of the estate.
Built in 1890 southeast of the main house at Zorokuen in Kaga, this 20-square-metre storehouse held art objects and is the smallest of the estate's 11 listings.
This small early Meiji storehouse in Nonoichi dresses its garden-facing walls in Tomuro stone, Shakudani stone and namako plaster, while its east wall stays plain.
Facing Nonoichi's old Hokkoku highway, this early Meiji ridge-roofed gate stands on Shakudani stone footings and forms one street front with its earthen walls.
Running 34 metres around the west and south of the compound, this early Meiji earthen wall in Nonoichi rests on cut Tomuro stone and carries a tiled coping.
Said to be part of the house where Emperor Meiji rested in 1878, this Meiji annex in Nonoichi keeps a large reception room and a transom carved with Mount Fuji.
The Kuretake Bunko Storehouse in Hakusan, Ishikawa, is a c.1889 kimono vault older than the library, with plaster-relief doors in a torii-like frame, now a gallery.
Built in 1900 in Daishoji, Kaga City, the Gotokuan Main House keeps a samurai-house plan: entrance, anteroom and two reception rooms in a row. Registered in 2005.
A Meiji-period house in Kaga City, Ishikawa, registered in 1999. Its 1941 entrance wing joins an older reception wing, both in slender timber under raw lacquer.
Built around 1899 in Kanazawa, this farmhouse stacks four tiers of beam across its gable end and finishes its rooms in refined sukiya style. Registered in 2002.