Meiji

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.

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.