Shōwa
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The Former Negishi Family Residence Storehouse in Echizen, Fukui, is an early Showa kura, plastered on the west and boarded on its other sides, registered in 2011.
A 65 m rockfall shelter of 1953 near Imajo, Fukui, one of the earliest prestressed concrete structures in Japan, with load-shaped columns on the valley side.
A 1937 house in Sabae, Fukui, built by a textile family. Three tiled roofs curve at three heights above a black plastered wall. Registered 2008; not open inside.
An early Showa townhouse on Honmachi Street, Matsuoka, Fukui, 15 m wide, with lattices, black plaster end bays and udatsu walls. Registered 2011; now a sake shop.
An early Showa reception annex at the Kokuryu head office in Matsuoka, Fukui: one 8-mat room with a timber alcove, shelves, black-lacquered ceiling and garden ranma.
An early Showa udekimon gate on Honmachi Street, Matsuoka, Fukui, 2.7 m wide, with board doors, a Shakudani stone base, black plaster walls and red bengara timber.
The Saito Family Residence New Storehouse in Sabae, Fukui, is a 1936 storehouse whose walls look like stone below and white plaster above. Registered 2016.
The Saito Family Residence Annex in Sabae, Fukui, is a 1928 two-storey house built for family life, with a fan-shaped transom and a round window. Registered 2016.
A c.1930 storehouse for household goods north of the main house on a Maruoka estate in Fukui, with plaster walls, high weatherboards and iron-shuttered openings.
A c.1930 storehouse in the northwest corner of a Maruoka estate in Fukui, with notched weatherboards, a crest on its west gable and rising beams; repaired 2023.
A c.1951 guest wing on a Maruoka estate in Fukui, with linked reception rooms, a tea room, a richly fitted alcove, a raised coffered ceiling and garden verandas.
A c.1930 carved yakuimon gate with wicket doors and a 29 m board wall with arabesque openwork, forming the formal west front of a Maruoka estate in Fukui.
A c.1951 concrete side gate with an arched iron bar and a 27 m wall in sprayed and washed mortar, along the street on the southwest of a Maruoka estate in Fukui.
A small c.1930 store for rice and farm tools at the southwest corner of a Maruoka estate in Fukui, with a plaster eaves band, high weatherboards and a crested gable.
A c.1930 udekimon gate with doors of single zelkova boards and a 12 m plastered wall running to the west storehouse, on the south edge of a Maruoka estate in Fukui.
A c.1930 reinforced-concrete villa on a Maruoka estate in Fukui, with mock-stone walls, a karahafu-shaped pediment bearing the crest and alternating arched windows.
Sugihara Shoten Office is a 1933 storehouse-style office of a washi merchant in Echizen, Fukui, with four lattice windows facing the street; still in use today.
Sugihara Shoten Ossuary is a tiny 1931 reinforced concrete hall in Echizen, Fukui, with a pyramidal copper roof and posts and rafters modelled in concrete.
Suya Taihekitei in Echizen, Fukui, is a thatched tea house of about 1931 in the garden of a restaurant inn, with a projecting room lit by round and other windows.
A one-storey reception wing behind the Takinami house in Sabae with an eight-mat room, tokonoma and log-trimmed eaves; called Rakushotei, it housed army commanders.