Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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Turning south from Kōshō-ji's main gate, this early-Taishō earthen wall runs about 45m along Horikawa-dōri, the longest in the precinct. It was registered in 2025.
Five-storey concrete office building of 1927 on Kawaramachi-dori, Kyoto, with an Art Deco entrance, stone-faced ground floor and acanthus pilaster heads.
Komokuan in Minami Ward, Kyoto, was designed in 1913 by the painter Hasegawa Yoshio for his ailing brother. Glazed shoji and geometric kumiko fill it.
This abbot's quarters is a spacious six-room shoin hall rebuilt in 1936 after the 1934 fire, with screens by Kubota Kinsen, on former Aizu headquarters ground.
Fronting the abbot's quarters, this four-legged gate covers barely seven square metres yet concentrates early-Showa Kyoto carving in its copper gable and transoms.
East of the abbot's quarters, this 1936 hall carries a copper-gabled car porch. Inside, a Western board-floored reception room sits beside a shoin tatami room.
Turning at a right angle from the karamon gate, this 57-metre earthen wall frames the abbot's south garden. Its five horizontal lines mark the highest temple rank.
Kurodani's main hall enshrines a portrait of Honen at seventy-five. Rebuilt after a 1934 fire by Kyoto University's Amanuma Shunichi in revived Kamakura style.
House of about 1924 on Mount Yoshida, Kyoto, one of 28 rental homes built for Kyoto University teachers, with a copper roof and a children's room upstairs.
Thatched music hall in Nantan, Kyoto, a Fukui temple hall of 1784 moved here in 1989, keeping its size and columns; concerts are held each spring and autumn.
Thatched farmhouse of 1916 at Kamigoma, Nantan, Kyoto, home of the Seiler family: hip-and-gable thatch with tiled lean-tos, plastered walls and a boarded base.
A granite myojin torii raised in 1702 at the western edge of Saguri Shrine in Kumiyama, Kyoto: 6.5 metres tall and among the largest at small shrines in the area.
A late Edo timber fence, 44 metres long, around the main hall of Saguri Shrine in Kumiyama, Kyoto, switching from square-bar lattice to pointed boards partway along.
Built in 1785 at Saguri Shrine in Kumiyama, Kyoto, this divided worship hall walls its side rooms on three sides, a form the Agency for Cultural Affairs calls rare.
A late Edo gate, 2.4 metres wide, between the worship hall and main hall of Saguri Shrine in Kumiyama, Kyoto, with polychrome beams and lattice doors.
The Sato Family Residence Household Goods Storehouse in Nagaokakyo is a Kaei-era kura 9.7 metres long, with a detached roof and a covered east doorway. Not open.
The Sato Family Residence Main House in Nagaokakyo is an early Meiji farmhouse of 196 square metres with a 9-room grid plan and formal shoin rooms. Private home.
The Sato Family Residence New Storehouse in Nagaokakyo is a 2-storey kura of 1910, the estate's smallest at 12 square metres, with a covered doorstep.
The Sato Family Residence High Wall in Nagaokakyo is an early Showa wall 40 metres long, with charred-cedar boards on a cut-stone base and a bracketed tile roof.
The Sato Family Residence Tsuiji Earthen Wall in Nagaokakyo is an Edo-period clay wall 68 metres long, tile-capped and trowelled in waves. Visible from the road.
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