Fukui Fine Arts Museum
Built around Okakura Tenshin's papers and Asian art, and a centre for research on the early Edo painter Iwasa Matabei.
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Built around Okakura Tenshin's papers and Asian art, and a centre for research on the early Edo painter Iwasa Matabei.
A 1950s street rebuilt at full size, its objects placed to match period photographs.
Excavated stone paving preserved exactly where it was found - the Sengoku ground lies under the museum floor.
Wakasa lay on the road between the capital and the northern sea; small temples here keep an unusual density of Heian Buddhas.
Lacquer objects 12,000 years old from Torihama - among the earliest known use of lacquer anywhere.
Coffins hollowed from local stone show it was being worked as far back as the fifth century.
One of the provincial temples founded by the state; its foundation stones still map the scale of the compound.
Stone Buddhas set along the pilgrim path to Mt Haku, the walking distance itself a measure of devotion.