Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Beside the approach to Amino Shrine stands its ablution pavilion, built in 1943 to mark the shrine's promotion to prefectural rank, open on all sides under a copper roof.

The largest of Amino Shrine's eight registered buildings, this worship hall was rebuilt in 1929 after the 1927 earthquake, with layered chidori and kara gables.

At the center of Amino Shrine on the Sea of Japan coast stands its 1922 main hall, a compact nagare-zukuri building finely carved by its designer Kishi Kumakichi.

A short covered corridor linking the worship hall to the main hall of Amino Shrine, built around 1929. Its thin brackets and curved rafters show a delicate touch.

Spanning the Yura River in Ayabe, Kyoto, the Ayabe Ohashi Bridge is a 210-metre seven-span steel curved-chord Warren truss bridge completed in 1929. Designated a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2005, it remains in active service as a road bridge and stands as a rare and beautiful example of early-Showa civil engineering.

The Arai Family Residence Main Building in Yodo, Fushimi, Kyoto, is a registered tangible cultural property completed in 1926. This wooden two-story home elegantly fuses a Spanish-tiled Western wing with a sukiya-style Japanese parlor, embodying the refined taste of pre-war suburban living.

Built in 1807 at Shichiku in northern Kyoto, the Araki Family Residence main house keeps its roof monitor, earth-floored passage and street-facing front garden.

Behind the Araki Family Residence in northern Kyoto stands a late Edo storehouse of sixteen square metres, its roof set on posts that carry purlins without beams.

A 1936 single-storey house in Kyoto's Shishigatani, half-timbered outside and fitted with joinery from a passenger liner. Built by Konoike-gumi; registered 2004.

An 1892 thatched gate at Anrakuji in Kyoto's Shishigatani, with octagonal posts and pole rafters fanned beneath a hipped roof. The temple opens in spring and autumn.

Anrakuji's Shoin, a late-Edo hall registered in 2003, faces a clipped-azalea dry garden with the Higashiyama hills as borrowed scenery near the Philosopher's Path.

The Main Hall of Anrakuji, just east of Kyoto's Philosopher's Path, is a Late Edo-period Pure Land hall registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2003. Built to memorialize the priests Junren and Anraku, it is open only during seasonal cherry-blossom, azalea, and autumn-foliage viewings.

Izumo Daijingu's stone torii in Kameoka, Kyoto: a granite gateway of 1718 donated by parishioners, 4.8 meters wide, each lintel cut from a single stone.

Izumo Daijingu's Kami-no-Yashiro in Kameoka, Kyoto: an 1813 one-bay sanctuary on Mount Mikage copying the main hall's plan at small scale, with a porch.

Izumo Daijingu's ritual implement storehouse in Kameoka, Kyoto: an 1885 two-storey clay store with white plaster, a namako tile band and carved brackets.

Izumo Daijingu's shrine office in Kameoka, Kyoto: a 1931 tiled building of 182 square meters with staggered tatami rooms, a railed veranda and chrysanthemum struts.

Izumo Daijingu's offering preparation hall in Kameoka, Kyoto: a 1908 building with a tatami room for priests and a board-floored kitchen with its own well.

Izumo Daijingu's notice board in Kameoka, Kyoto: an 1873 roofed frame for posted rules, 0.9 meters wide, with a stepped copper roof, standing beside the stone torii.

Izumo Daijingu's Kurodayu auxiliary shrine in Kameoka, Kyoto: a 1938 one-bay sanctuary outside the grounds, with chamfered posts and classical carved details.

Izumo Daijingu's music pavilion in Kameoka, Kyoto: built in 1881 as the first offering hall and moved to a raised stone terrace east of the middle gate in 1908.

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