Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Designed by Yoshida Isoya in 1963, this concrete modern sukiya house has flat ceilings with built-in lighting and shoji running the full height of the rooms.

Built in 1944 by Kitamura Sutejiro, this entrance hall has stepping stones indoors, a nijiriguchi with a round hearth, and a Western-style waiting room for tea.

At the back of a Kyoto tea garden, this 1944 tea house by Kitamura Sutejiro pairs the small room Chinsanren and its companion seat with a quiet large room.

Built in 1944 by Kitamura Sutejiro, this Kyoto corridor of diagonal tiles bends on its way to a tea room, ending at a waiting bench with noble and companion seats.

The Former Ueda Family Residence Inner Storehouse in Muko, Kyoto, is a small two-story kura from about 1910 with three plaster bands and a hidden floor strongroom.

The Former Ueda Family Residence Main House in Muko, Kyoto, is a 1910 farmhouse moved here in 1942, with a six-burner brick range and a refined tatami room.

The Former Ueda Family Residence Outer Storehouse in Muko, Kyoto, joins a two-story rice store and a single-story tool store under stepped roofs, built around 1910.

The Former Ueda Family Residence Middle Gate and Wall in Muko, Kyoto, date from about 1942: a 1-meter ridge-beam gate and 27 meters of tiled wall around a garden.

The Former Ueda Family Residence Annex in Muko, Kyoto, is a two-story guest wing from about 1942, with linked tatami rooms and a tropical hardwood alcove post.

A late Edo horse stable at the front of the Ueno headman's compound in Maizuru, built in clay like a storehouse, with board-clad walls and small gable windows.

A thatched hip-and-gable farmhouse of the 1830s in Maizuru, ringed by tiled pent roofs, with a formal shikidai entrance and a projecting guest room for officials.

A tiny late Edo household shrine of the Ueno family in Maizuru, set in a shelter, with a carved dragon on its porch beam, lion and baku beam ends and openwork doors.

A two-storey late Edo storehouse in Maizuru, the largest of the Ueno family's three, split into a rice store and a miso store, each reached by its own south door.

A Meiji-era wing 11.5 ken long closing the west side of the Ueno headman's compound in Maizuru, with a reception room at its north end and a deep eave.

A white-plastered two-storey storehouse in the Ueno family compound in Maizuru, raised on cut stone with stone steps. Sources date it to the 1880s or to 1945–1954.

The smallest of the Ueno family's three storehouses in Maizuru: a two-storey late Edo kura on a cut-stone base, with a fire-stopping band under the eaves.

A 44-metre tiled wall around the Ueno headman's compound and garden in Maizuru, built in the late Edo period, extended in Taisho, faced in board, bamboo and plaster.

Raised in 1939 by master carpenter Kanamori Mitsugu, this Yamashina house hides its rafters under lime plaster and stacks small roofs like a castle. Interior closed.

Built about 1936, the earliest dated building on the Onogi estate in Yamashina, Kyoto: a traditional storehouse fitted with an iron door and trowel-shaped brackets.

A 9.9-square-meter hall for the goma fire ritual, built about 1939 between two storehouses on the Onogi estate in Yamashina, Kyoto, with a smoke vent in its ceiling.

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