Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A 1917 earthen-walled storehouse in Yawata, Kyoto, registered in 2012 for the riverbank view it completes. Drip tiles and clay doors reward a look from Ankobashi.

The early Showa gate of a Yawata villa is just 2.1 metres wide, yet packs a bowed roof, adze-finished posts and a slatted transom into it. Registered in 2012.

Built around 1917 for an Osaka theatre owner, this Yawata reception hall pairs a coved coffered ceiling with a raised dais. Registered 2012; now a rental stay.

The Kyoto home of the Nakamura family, lacquerers to the Sen tea schools, dates from 1854 and was built by a sukiya master carpenter. Registered 2003; closed.

A late Meiji merchant house on Muromachi-dori in Kyoto, built in omoya-zukuri with a courtyard dividing shop from home. Registered in 2007; still a private home.

This 23-square-metre Kyoto storehouse turns the long side of its gabled roof to the street, white lime plaster over a red-brown boarded base. Registered in 2007.

Brick office building of 1906 in Kyoto, built for the Kyoto Flannel Company and later Nissha Printing's head office, with a mansard roof and Corinthian porch.

Anglican church of 1930 by Bergamini in Nakagyo, Kyoto: a half-timbered Japanese-style building with a kindergarten below and a chapel under curved trusses above.

Ninnaji Temple Grand Entrance, rebuilt in 1890 after the 1887 fire, pairs a tiled hall with a carved cypress-bark carriage porch. Features, access and goshuin.

Ninnaji Temple Black Study Hall, a relocated abbot's hall remodeled around 1910, with slatted mairado doors and 1937 panels by Domoto Insho. Plan and visiting.

Ninnaji Temple Imperial Family Gate, a slender 1914 gate between the forecourt and South Garden, with open rafters and a pierced transom. Design and how to see it.

Ninnaji Temple White Study Hall served as a temporary Shinden from 1890. Six rooms, bamboo-node transoms, Fukunaga Seihan pines, 2026 restoration and visiting tips.

Ninnaji Temple Shinden, rebuilt in 1914 after an 1887 fire, pairs a palace-style exterior with shoin rooms painted by Hara Zaisen. Design, gardens and visiting tips.

Ninnaji Temple Imperial Envoy Gate, a Taisho-era gate by Kameoka Suekichi modeled on the Hongwanji Karamon, is covered in phoenix and vine openwork. How to view it.

Ninnaji Temple Treasure Museum, a 1927 concrete building whose walls copy an azekura storehouse, opens three times a year. Its design, door guardians and visits.

Ninnaji Temple Reimeiden Hall, a 1911 pyramidal-roofed hall by Kameoka Suekichi, houses a hidden Yakushi statue and abbots' tablets. Design, details and visiting.

The Nogi Shrine Memorial Hall in Fushimi, Kyoto, a stone-and-thatch building of around 1916, is tied to General Nogi's Russo-Japanese War headquarters house.

The Nogi Shrine Gate and Flanking Walls in Fushimi, Kyoto, built in 1916 to Shitara Sadao's design, pair a sweeping gate of Taiwan cypress with 27 m of walls.

The Nogi Shrine Worship Hall in Fushimi, Kyoto, built in 1916 to Shitara Sadao's design, is a single open room ringed by lattice shutters and a railed veranda.

The Nogi Shrine Treasure Museum in Fushimi, Kyoto, a 1916 plastered storehouse with namako-kabe walls, holds General Nogi's letters, swords and his wife's gown.

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