Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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The Heian Jogakuin Meijikan, an 1895 brick school by A. N. Hansell, is among Japan's earliest Queen Anne Revival buildings, with Dutch gables and white bands.
Behind Kyoto's Heian Jingu sanctuary runs the inner corridor, a 1940 vermilion cloister on a stone platform with latticed windows and round pillars.
The great torii of Kyoto's Heian Jingu, raised in 1928 in reinforced concrete, stands about 24 meters tall. Once Japan's largest, it anchors the Okazaki district.
On the west of Heian Jingu's south court stands the 1940 Gakuden, a rest-and-assembly hall modeled on an ancient palace hall, with board doors and lattice shutters.
On the east of Heian Jingu's south court, the 1940 Kaguraden sits on a stone platform, open on three sides, hosting sacred dance and Shinto weddings.
Outside Heian Jingu's east corridor, the 1940 Saikan is a refined modern Japanese hall with a karahafu gabled entrance and finely coffered ceilings.
Extending east and west from Heian Jingu's main gate, the 1940 Shinmon Yokuro adds tatami rooms and vermilion woodwork under tiled roofs, shaping the shrine's front.
Behind Heian Jingu's sanctuary, a see-through fence and small rear gate close off the rear precinct. Built in 1940 by Sunami Takashi and Tani Shigeo, it runs 90 meters.
Beside its eastern twin, Heian Jingu's West Saikiko is a 1940 two-story plaster storehouse for ritual vessels, with namako-style joints at its base and plastered eaves.
Behind Heian Jingu's sanctuary, the 1940 West Shinko is a small log-built sacred storehouse, strictly symmetrical with its eastern twin. A fine miniature azekura hut.
On the west of Heian Jingu's south court, the West Gate, or Shozenmon, and its L-shaped corridor enclose the court. Built in 1940, it mirrors the east side.
West of Heian Jingu's west corridor, the East Saikiko is a two-story plaster storehouse first built in 1907 and relocated here in 1940, marked by board-clad lower walls.
Behind Heian Jingu's sanctuary, the 1940 East Shinko is a small log storehouse about 3.6 meters square, its bare white wood standing out amid the vermilion precinct.
On the east of Heian Jingu's south court, the East Gate, or Senseimon, and its 50-meter corridor enclose the court, their vermilion frame and green lattice defining it.
Heian Jingu's South Walkway is a 1940 L-shaped passage tying the Soryuro and Byakkoro towers to the outer corridors, two bays wide with a latticed central wall.
A registered wooden house of 1921 in Hanazono, Kyoto, built for a businessman home from Russia. Traditional outside, with a modern middle corridor. Private home.
The late Edo northwest storehouse of the Hori Family Residence in Joyo, Kyoto runs 9.9 metres on a cut-stone base, its plastered street wall boarded below.
The 1859 main house of the Hori Family Residence in Joyo, Kyoto keeps an upper-tier farmhouse plan: an earth-floored west half, six rooms east, a formal entry step.
The late Edo long gatehouse of the Hori Family Residence in Joyo, Kyoto has a room with a projecting lattice window, board doors and a small wicket beside them.
Built around 1902, the detached guest rooms of the Hori Family Residence in Joyo, Kyoto show sukiya detailing: a bark-covered post, a fan-shaped wall opening.
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