Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Set in the quiet Nishigamo neighborhood of Kyoto's Kita Ward, Jinkō-in Rengetsu-an is the small wooden hermitage where the celebrated late-Edo / early-Meiji poet, nun, and ceramic artist Ōtagaki Rengetsu (1791–1875) spent the final ten years of her life, from age 76 until her death at 85. Built in the late Edo period, this 51-square-meter cottage incorporates refined sukiya-style touches such as a soot-darkened bamboo lattice ceiling and a round window. Registered as a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan in 2021, it offers a deeply moving glimpse into the world of one of Japan's most beloved female poets, famed for her hand-formed Rengetsu-yaki ceramics inscribed with her own waka poems.

Octagonal sutra hall of 1925 by Fujii Koji at Daikakuji, Kyoto, recreating a wooden hall in concrete to house the sealed Heart Sutras copied by emperors.

Repository of 1928 by Takeda Goichi at the Iwakura Tomomi Former Residence in Kyoto: a small concrete building with a tiled roof and scratch-tile walls.

Front gate of Daishoji, an imperial convent in Kyoto: a large late Edo yakuimon, moved in 1922, with a tiled gable roof befitting the leading imperial convent.

Entrance hall of 1923 at Daishoji, an imperial convent in Kyoto, with a large copper-roofed porch under a cusped gable, designed with arriving motor cars in mind.

Tea house of 1938 at Daishoji, an imperial convent in Kyoto, linked to the palace hall: an L-shaped building around a small tea room, a fine modern example.

High wall of around 1942 at Daishoji in Kyoto, 36 metres long, dividing the approach to the entrance hall from the forecourt; plastered, with a tiled coping.

Earthen wall of around 1922 along Karasuma-dori at Daishoji, an imperial convent in Kyoto: 59 metres long, tiled, with five white stripes on the street side.

Late Edo earthen wall on the south side of Daishoji, an imperial convent in Kyoto: 66 metres long, tiled and striped, with a small gate for the "impure" in the west.

Main hall of 1942 at Daishoji, an imperial convent in Kyoto: a six-room abbot's hall with balustraded verandas and a guest room with a painted alcove.

Late Edo palace hall at Daishoji, an imperial convent in Kyoto: a formal west wing of four rooms and a sukiya-style east wing, the residence of princess-abbesses.

Corridor of 1942 at Daishoji, an imperial convent in Kyoto, linking the main and entrance halls: a double passage, boarded and matted, with a firewall partway along.

Kenkun Shrine Grand Torii, a 7.2 m myojin gateway of unpainted Taiwan cypress built in 1934, marks the east entrance to Nobunaga's shrine on Kyoto's Mount Funaoka.

Kenkun Shrine Guest House is a tiled 1880 reception hall moved up Kyoto's Mount Funaoka in 1910, with a curved carriage porch and railed verandas facing east.

Kenkun Shrine Ceremony Vessel Storehouse is a two-storey earthen store of 1880, moved in 1929, with a placed tiled roof and an upstairs door suited to the site.

Kenkun Shrine Office, built in 1929 on Kyoto's Mount Funaoka, pairs a tiled roof with a shingled entrance canopy and tall openings. It is still the shrine office.

Kenkun Shrine Offering Hall, built in 1884 and moved uphill in 1910, is a cypress-bark hall facing Nobunaga's sanctuary, with kitchen, board room and tatami room.

Kenkun Shrine Lattice Fence, built in 1910 when the shrine moved up Kyoto's Mount Funaoka, encloses the main hall for 55 m with diamond lattice and cross-braces.

Kenkun Shrine Chozusha is a 4.2 m² purification pavilion of 1880 on Kyoto's Mount Funaoka, moved uphill in 1922, with diamond-lattice transoms and a stone basin.

Kenkun Shrine Norito Hall, called the inner gate by the shrine, is a 7.1 m² hall of 1880 before Nobunaga's Kyoto sanctuary, with round posts and a swelling roof.

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