Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The garden gate and cedar-bark fence of the Former Koyama Family Residence in Miyama enclose the garden before the main reception room. Registered in 2008.

An early Meiji machiya on Takatsuji-dori in Kyoto, once a dye merchant's house. Two winding staircases by Tango carpenters survive inside. Registered in 2014.

The main house of Kyutei Omuro, a 1937 sukiya villa on Narabigaoka's slope in Kyoto. A Mount Fuji transom crowns rooms whose karin table mirrors the garden.

Soan, the freestanding tea house of Kyutei Omuro near Narabigaoka in Kyoto. This four-and-a-half-mat room opens its north wall to frame the town and the hills.

The storehouse of Kyutei Omuro stands at the northwest corner of this 1937 Kyoto villa, a plastered kura registered for how it shapes the historic scene.

West of the tea house in Kyutei Omuro's garden stands the machiai, a waiting arbor of just 4.8 m², packed with design from copper roof to round window.

A tiled wall traces the edges of Kyutei Omuro, a gabled gate set into it. The adzed door and boat-shaped brackets carry the villa's refinement to its boundary.

A 1935 Kyoto merchant house registered in 2021. It keeps the omoya-zukuri plan but gives the shopfront a Western face, with an earth floor and a corridor behind.

Registered in 2021, this 28-square-metre building of 1935 stands at the back of a Kyoto dyer's plot, with a goods store below and a staff rest room above.

The smallest of three registered buildings at Namikawa Yasuyuki's Kyoto residence, this 18 square metre kiln house kept its shuttered windows and plastered ceiling.

The single-storey workshop where Namikawa Yasuyuki's wired cloisonne was made around 1902, its two small rooms lined with shelving and now open as a museum gallery.

Built in 1893 by enameller Namikawa Yasuyuki, this Kyoto townhouse pairs a classic machiya front with tall lintels and glazed verandas made for foreign buyers.

A 1928 reinforced concrete bank in Fukuchiyama, registered in 2025. Its symmetrical front turns on a chamfered corner; today it sells Tanba azuki sweets.

Bathhouse of 1930 on Kuramaguchi-dori in Kyoto, with a karahafu entrance and decorative tiles inside and out, now the café Sarasa Nishijin, its old layout intact.

Navy residence of 1902 in Maizuru, Kyoto, a senior Class B house built to standard naval specifications, with guest rooms and living quarters clearly divided.

North building of the Kyoto Art Center, the 1931 north wing of Meirin school, with ramps in a quarter-round tower and window canopies; now studios and a gallery.

Main gate and wall of 1931 at the Kyoto Art Center on Muromachi-dori: Secession-style octagonal piers with domed tops, matched by the side gates and wall posts.

West building of the Kyoto Art Center, the 1931 main block of Meirin school, with Spanish tiles, a balcony, a coffered 78-mat great hall and the old auditorium.

South building of the Kyoto Art Center, the 1931 south wing of Meirin school, with an arched entrance, a tower, three round windows and a fourth-floor tea room.

The north information board of the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, built in about 1933, has posts tiled like the main building under a small gabled copper roof.

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