Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Izumo Daijingu's temizuya in Kameoka, Kyoto: an 1885 purification pavilion with four inward-leaning posts, a gently swelling gable roof and a shaped west beam.

Izumo Daijingu's worship hall in Kameoka, Kyoto: an open-sided 1878 hall under a cypress-bark roof, with round pillars, a coffered ceiling and double-tier rafters.

Izumo Daijingu's corridors and openwork fence in Kameoka, Kyoto: an 1893 lattice fence and 1935 bark-roofed corridors that together enclose the main hall.

Izumo Daijingu's middle gate and norito hall in Kameoka, Kyoto: a 1934 four-legged gate and open prayer pavilion under cypress bark with a curved karahafu gable.

A 1926 soy sauce dealer's machiya facing Matsubara-dori, Kyoto, 5.5 ken wide, with round-bar lattices, a stone dado and a copper eave. Registered in 2008.

A stone well of about 1926 at Muryoshian, Kyoto: a granite curb of four interlocked slabs and a copper-roofed shelter that omits one post to keep a path clear.

The 1926 retreat behind a Kyoto soy sauce shop, built of prized tsuga hemlock, with shoin-style rooms below and a sukiya room upstairs. Registered in 2008.

A tea room and garden waiting arbor of about 1926 at Muryoshian, Kyoto: a four-and-a-half-mat room behind a mizuya, and a polished-log arbor. Registered in 2008.

A 2-storey storehouse of about 1926 at Muryoshian, Kyoto, joined to the house by a covered passage, with iron doors and lime-plaster walls. Registered in 2008.

The smaller, older of the two Inaba storehouses in Kumihama, Kyotango: a late Edo earthen store that old drawings show was moved when the main house was built.

Completed in 1890 for the Inaba merchant family in Kumihama, Kyotango, this main house pairs a traditional exterior with a central-corridor plan and a tall doma.

A late Edo gatehouse on the street in Kumihama, Kyotango: two full storeys, an upper floor jutting 1 shaku and udatsu firewalls give it a town-house look.

The southern of two storehouses linked by corridor to the Inaba main house in Kumihama, Kyotango: a mid-Meiji two-storey earthen store with a separate roof.

The Meiji-era silk thread store of a Miyazu merchant family, largest on the plot, with a broad gable and paired windows. Registered in 2002 as a model of design.

An 1858 storehouse behind the Imabayashi silk shop in Miyazu, plastered with a boarded base, where a chirimen loom is said to have run in early Meiji. Listed 2009.

The late Edo shop where the Imabayashi family sold raw silk in Miyazu: an exposed-post front with twin firewalls and a projecting lattice, registered in 2009.

A Meiji rice storehouse on a Miyazu street, walled in namako tile in a diamond lattice and a square grid, its eave aligned with the main house. Registered 2002.

The 1892 main house of a Miyazu silk-thread merchant family, with lattices, a lift-up plank door, a raised clerestory roof and a wing wall. Registered in 2002.

A Meiji tool storehouse at the back of the Imabayashi plot in Miyazu that preserves the fan-set rafters found among the city's stores. Registered in 2002.

The Imamiya Shrine Ekijinja Main Hall in Kyoto, home of the plague god behind Imamiya, was designed by Kameoka Suekichi around 1908 with fine medieval detail.

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