Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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Kenkun Shrine Worship Hall on Kyoto's Mount Funaoka is an open-sided 1880 hall with upswept cypress-bark eaves, a coffered ceiling and Nobunaga retainer portraits.
Kenkun Shrine Main Hall, a 5.1 m² nagare-zukuri sanctuary for Oda Nobunaga on Kyoto's Mount Funaoka, was built in 1880, moved uphill in 1910 and registered in 2008.
Kenkun Shrine Corridor links the main hall and norito hall of Nobunaga's Kyoto shrine: a 6.0 m² passage of 1880 with a copper roof, flared ridge post and stone path.
Discover Doshisha Women's College James Hall, a 1914 brick building by architect Takeda Goichi standing across from Kyoto Imperial Palace—where California-inspired walls meet a Japanese tile roof in a refined wakon-yōsai masterpiece.
Tofukuji Temple Onshimon Gate, a cypress-bark karamon of 1909 given by Empress Shoken and designed by Kameoka Suekichi, bears chrysanthemum crests and fine openwork.
Tofukuji Temple Priests' Quarters (1910) is the Zen kitchen and office hall of Tofukuji in Kyoto, with a huge gable, a copper karahafu porch and a central corridor.
Tofukuji Temple Hojo, built in 1890 after the fire of 1881, is a 16-bay abbot's hall whose railed verandas frame Shigemori Mirei's 1939 gardens on all sides.
Tofukuji Temple Main Hall in Kyoto, completed in 1934, is an 809-square-metre Zen hall with a mokoshi roof, three-stepped brackets and Domoto Insho's ceiling dragon.
Behind a tall wall in central Kyoto, a 1909 takabei-zukuri residence blends shoin-style refinement with late-Meiji craft. Registered, restrained, still a working ryokan.
A 1909 two-story earthen storehouse at the rear of a Kyoto machiya in Shimogyō, the Toshiharu Dozō shows hongawara tile, deep eaves, and a black-plastered doorway.
Tondaya Front Storehouse is an early Meiji earthen storehouse on a Nishijin street corner, with no street-side door and a board-clad lower wall, seen from outside.
Tondaya Main House is a large omoteya-zukuri townhouse built around 1885 for a Nishijin kimono wholesaler, with gold-dusted transoms, seen on reserved tours.
Tondaya Middle Storehouse is a small two-storey Meiji earthen storehouse in a Nishijin merchant house, linked by a veranda, with a plaster relief over its door.
Tondaya Annex is a 1935 guest wing at a Nishijin merchant house, with a reception room for Noh and the Rakuju tea room named by a tea master, used for booked tea.
Tondaya Treasure Storehouse is a two-storey earthen storehouse built in 1935 at a Nishijin merchant house, its door bearing the shop name inside and hozo above.
A small early Meiji gatehouse in Muko City, Kyoto, facing the old Saigoku Kaido. Its north half holds a two-mat room with a projecting lattice window. Listed 2008.
In Muko City, Kyoto, an early Meiji annex and the inner gate continuing from its eave divide the Nakakoji estate's formal front from its private corner. Listed 2008.
The Main House of the Nakano Family Residence in Nagaokakyo, Kyoto, is a late Edo dwelling registered in 2010. It now serves meals and coffee as Nakanotei.
The Tea House of the Nakano Family Residence in Nagaokakyo, Kyoto, built in 1951, is a four-and-a-half-mat room named Koan with a lit four-panel woven ceiling.
The Storehouse of the Nakano Family Residence in Nagaokakyo, Kyoto, is a late Edo earthen-walled dozo of just 25 square metres, registered nationally in 2010.
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