Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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The Nogi Shrine Main Hall in Fushimi, Kyoto, built in 1916 to Shitara Sadao's design, faces north to Emperor Meiji's tomb from a stone platform. Registered in 2025.
A small 1912 bracket-arm gate, 2.0 m wide, moved to its site in 2002. It was assembled from old timbers of several buildings and has bi-fold shippo-pattern doors.
Built in 1920 by Yamanaka & Co.'s Kyoto branch to show and store antiques, this brick hall with concrete floors keeps a silk-lined ceiling and a skylit hall.
Built in 1904 when Yamanaka & Co. opened its Kyoto branch, this single-story display hall faces Jingu-michi with bracket blocks, diamond lattice and reused carvings.
The Hisada Family Hanshoan Tea House in Kyoto (1886) holds a seven-mat room and Hanshoan, a small tea room with a board inset in Sozen's style. Registered 2013.
A 1917 machiya-style sentō in Maizuru's Yoshiwara fishing town. Registered cultural property (2021) with original pine beams beside the 'Oriental Venice' canal.
An 1876 home of rice merchants and village headmen on the Katsura River in Fushimi, Kyoto: a six-room plan with a wide earthen floor and a lower guest wing. Private.
A Nishijin weaver's townhouse in Kyoto: an early Meiji east wing and a 1930s west wing with an Art Deco parlor, an 8 m light well and contrasting tatami rooms.
A freestanding tea room of about 1935 behind a Nishijin townhouse in Kyoto, its four-and-a-half-mat plan and woven and sloping ceilings echo Urasenke's Yuin room.
An 1876 storehouse on a former rice merchant's estate once open to the Katsura River in Fushimi, Kyoto: board-clad walls, a gable front and just two small windows.
An early Meiji two-story storehouse at the back of a Nishijin townhouse garden in Kyoto, 3.4 m square, with white plaster walls and black plaster accents.
A light sukiya-style gate and fence of about 1935 on a Nishijin townhouse in Kyoto: knobbed log posts, battened boards, cedar bark and a single line of tiles.
Built around 1925 as the headquarters of Nikkosha, one of Kyoto's earliest automobile distributors, the Fuji Rabbit Building blends classical columns, tire-motif stained glass, and a sun-shaped roof tower a short walk from Kyoto Station.
On the same plot as Kyoto's famous Funaoka Onsen public bath stands the wooden two-story inn building that started it all. Built c. 1923 with a 1930 renovation, the Former Funaokarō preserves the small banquet rooms and second-floor hall of a Taishō-era ryokan, registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in July 2003.
A 29-square-meter wooden storefront tucked beside Funaoka Onsen in northern Kyoto, the former barbershop is an early example of kanban-kenchiku (signboard architecture) built around 1923. It was registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2003 alongside three other buildings of the same bathhouse complex.
A 1932 concrete bathhouse in northern Kyoto reuses stone railings from the demolished Kikusui Bridge, with majolica tile walls and circular clerestory windows.
The Heian Jogakuin Arisukan Main House, moved beside the Kyoto Imperial Park in 1891, keeps a raised jodan-no-ma, courtyard wings and Ogawa Jihei XI gardens; closed.
The Heian Jogakuin Arisukan Seitenmon Gate is a 1912 copper-roofed karamon on Karasuma-dori with paired curved rafters, single-plank keyaki doors and white walls.
The Heian Jogakuin Arisukan Nagayamon Gate is a late Meiji gatehouse on Shimodachiuri-dori, its white plaster and lattice window facing a brick church.
The Heian Jogakuin Showakan is a 1929 steel-reinforced concrete school in Kyoto by J. V. W. Bergamini and Naito Tachu, with pointed arches and brick-tiled walls.
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