Meiji

An early Meiji kagura-date townhouse in Mikuni, Fukui: a gable-entered block behind a side-entered front, with fine lattices and wing walls, in the old port streets.

A mid-Meiji storehouse in Sabae, Fukui, said to date from 1891 when Sakai Shōten was founded, with a Shakudani stone base and original namako tilework on one wall.

An early Meiji storehouse behind a townhouse in Mikuni, Fukui, with tall walls sealed but for one small window and a passage under its lean-to to the river.

An early Meiji cargo storehouse at the back of a Mikuni townhouse plot in Fukui, with a passage to a back door and a weatherboarded gable facing the Kuzuryū River.

Built in 1886, this two-storey building at Shinyosha Paper Mill in Echizen, Fukui, dries washi on boards upstairs, has a dryer room and once held a rest area.

Built in 1899, this building at Shinyosha Paper Mill in Echizen, Fukui, cleaned fiber downstairs and finished paper upstairs, both floors lit by rows of windows.

The Shinyosha Paper Mill Papermaking Building is a late-Meiji vat room in Echizen, Fukui: one 19 m room lit by continuous windows and still used to make paper.

This mid-Meiji building at Shinyosha Paper Mill in Echizen, Fukui, held a boiler room below and a paper-glazing roller room above, where Meiji rollers survive.

The larger of two storehouses at the Takinami house in Sabae, built around 1887: 15.2 m long, white lime plaster over a stone-faced base, stepped earthen shutters.

Built around 1887 on the old Hokuriku Kaido in Sabae, this townhouse pairs two tiers of projecting eaves and end firewalls with a Western-style rear. Registered 2013

A small 1887-era storehouse at the Takinami house in Sabae, 31 square meters, with black plaster cornices on white walls and a big balance-weight emblem on its door.

A granite lighthouse 6.0 metres across and 8.0 metres high, built in 1881 at the tip of the Tsuruga Peninsula, Fukui, and registered in 2017, crowned by a domed lantern.

This 1912 shop in Echizen began as two wooden storeys and gained a third through two rebuilds. Four wide windows span the upper floors. Exterior views only.

A Meiji-period earthen-walled sake store in Ono, Fukui, standing south of the shop. The Agency for Cultural Affairs singles it out for its iron eaves braces.

The smallest of five registered buildings at the Hanagaki brewery in Ono, Fukui. Built in 1889, this 41-square-metre rice store opens onto the block's back drain.

A Meiji wooden townhouse at a market crossroads in Ono, Fukui, registered in 2001. It keeps its tower-like roof monitor and still trades as the Hanagaki sake shop.

Storehouses in the Nishino compound, Echizen: an 1889 large store with triple doors, linked by a middle store to a Showa new store in black plaster; registered 2017.

A tea house of about 1909 in the Nishino papermakers' compound, Echizen, Fukui, finished in clear and black lacquer with a bare-wood alcove post; registered in 2017.

Baba Family Residence Main House, Echizen City, Fukui, dates from about 1891. Its gable shows exposed posts and tie beams. Registered in 2021; exterior views only.

The Baba Family Residence Storehouse in Echizen City, Fukui, was built in 1892. Plaster posts and a lintel frame its doorway. Registered 2021; exterior views only.