Kanazawa Yuwaku Edomura

This guide to Kanazawa Yuwaku Edomura opens with a legend from some thirteen hundred years ago, of a papermaker in this valley following an injured white heron to a patch of scalding ground where it kept healing itself. It follows how that papermaking trade stayed in the valley for centuries under the wealthy Kaga domain, and how one farmhouse with its own attached paper mill was moved here board by board in 2013. From there it traces several more relocated buildings, including a samurai residence and merchant houses, carried here piece by piece starting in 2003. Look for the joists and thatch on the paper-mill house, rebuilt exactly as it stood in its home village.