Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Early Meiji six-chamber climbing kiln of firebrick at the Ogawa Bunsai potters' house on Gojozaka, Kyoto, 11 metres long with a brick chimney at one corner.

A two-mat tea-room-style hut of 1937 in Kawai Kanjiro's courtyard, built of thick farmhouse timbers with a slatted ceiling and a well, used for thought, not tea.

Kawai Kanjiro designed this 1937 Kyoto house himself: a hipped, gable-entry timber home with a lattice front and a double-height hall around an irori hearth.

Kawai Kanjiro's wheel room of about 1929, older than his house: an earth-floored room and a board floor split into chair and sitting levels, the wheel on the higher.

The Meiji-era brick climbing kiln Kawai Kanjiro took over in 1920 and named Shokei-yo: 15 m long under a timber shelter, cut from nine chambers to eight.

On the Tanba Kaido in Nagaokakyo, this Taisho wall of 6.5 m sets a latticed front gate in its central bay, with boarded lower walls, white plaster and tiled coping.

Facing the Tanba Kaido in Nagaokakyo, this late Edo farmhouse is 13 m wide, with deep lean-to eaves on three sides and an altar room and reception room to the north.

Around the garden of the Kawai estate in Nagaokakyo, a late Edo earthen wall of 10 m on piled stones, plastered white and tiled, is kept low to save a far hill view.

In a corner of the Kawai estate in Nagaokakyo, this late Edo storehouse of 4.9 by 3.9 m has a separate okiyane roof, lime plaster and tall boarding on its west wall.

Between the main house and storehouse of the Kawai estate in Nagaokakyo, a Taisho garden gate 1.4 m wide is roofed in split moso bamboo, by an earthen wall of 3 m.

A small early Showa brick kiln beside Kawai Kanjiro's studio, 1.8 m deep, used to bisque fire pots before the climbing kiln; said to be built to his design.

House and clinic of 1936 on Fuyacho-dori in central Kyoto: a three-storey timber building with French tiles, a round corner tower and a half-timbered stair hall.

House and studio of 1925 of the painter Kawabata Yanosuke in Shogoin, Kyoto, built on his return from France, with a double-height studio lit from the north.

A 1936 concrete institute facing Kyoto University, registered in 1998, designed from an outline by Perret's pupil Mestrallet and still home to the French institute.

Building of 1906 by Takeda Goichi for the Kansai Art Academy in Okazaki, Kyoto, with a trussed lean-to roof and large north windows, an early studio building.

A 1913 entrance hall at Gion Kobu Kaburenjo, Kyoto: a karahafu porch, a hip-and-gable block that held first-class waiting rooms, and a coffered ceiling kept in 2022.

The 1936 reinforced-concrete gate of Gion Kobu Kaburenjo on Hanamikoji, with a hipped copper-tile roof framing the approach to the theater. Where to see it and when.

A 1913 timber annex beside the Gion Kobu Kaburenjo theater: a stepped west front of three gables, a 70-mat tea room, alcoved lounges and what visitors can see.

The 1913 hinoki theater of the Miyako Odori in Gion: twin hanamichi, musicians’ rows, a coffered ceiling kept through the 2016–2022 retrofit, and how to visit.

Completed in 1944 by Kitamura Sutejiro, this Kyoto gatehouse uses slim round logs, a low pan-tiled gable roof and a ceiling of dense bamboo over sparse log rafters.

The complete kokuhō catalogue — browse by prefecture, period, and category.

Nationwide jūyō bunkazai — architecture, sculpture, painting, crafts, and documents.

UNESCO-inscribed cultural and natural sites across the archipelago.