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14,499 total Registered Tangible Cultural Properties 47 prefectures
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Hori Family Residence East Storehouse
Kyoto 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Hori Family Residence East Storehouse

The 1875 east storehouse of the Hori Family Residence in Joyo, Kyoto joins the main house by a covered passage, roofed in hongawara with trowelled lettering.

Matsumoto Sake Brewery Ginjo Brewhouse
Kyoto 大正 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Matsumoto Sake Brewery Ginjo Brewhouse

Matsumoto Sake Brewery Ginjo Brewhouse in Fushimi, Kyoto: a small Taisho-era timber brewhouse whose diagonally boarded gables carry a tortoiseshell-shaped vent.

Matsumoto Sake Brewery Sakagura Hall
Kyoto 大正 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Matsumoto Sake Brewery Sakagura Hall

Matsumoto Sake Brewery Sakagura Hall in Fushimi, Kyoto: a 1924 storehouse, once the junmai brewhouse, clad in black boards to match the Daikokugura along the river.

Matsumoto Sake Brewery Main Gate
Kyoto 江戸 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Matsumoto Sake Brewery Main Gate

Matsumoto Sake Brewery Main Gate in Fushimi, Kyoto: an early Edo four-legged gate said to come from Shoden-in at Kennin-ji, with Zen-style posts and plant carving.

Matsumoto Sake Brewery Daikokugura
Kyoto 大正 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Matsumoto Sake Brewery Daikokugura

Matsumoto Sake Brewery Daikokugura in Fushimi, Kyoto: a 1923 storehouse of three 40-metre earthen-walled bays joined side by side, its board-clad wall on the river.

Matsumoto Sake Brewery Mangyoin
Kyoto 昭和中 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Matsumoto Sake Brewery Mangyoin

Matsumoto Sake Brewery Mangyoin in Fushimi, Kyoto: a c.1954 family house of two staggered wings whose curved entrance reuses timber from Shoden-in at Kennin-ji.

Matsumoto Sake Brewery Brick Chimney
Kyoto 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Matsumoto Sake Brewery Brick Chimney

Matsumoto Sake Brewery Brick Chimney in Fushimi, Kyoto: an 18-metre late-Meiji smokestack of English-bond brick on an octagon, braced in steel along its full height.

Matsumoto Sake Brewery Brick Warehouse
Kyoto 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Matsumoto Sake Brewery Brick Warehouse

Matsumoto Sake Brewery Brick Warehouse in Fushimi, Kyoto: a late-Meiji brick store inherited from a drug factory, with round-windowed parapets and segmental arches.

Secret Language
Kyoto 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Secret Language

A Meiji-era sukiya residence beside Kumano Nyakuoji Shrine at the southern end of Kyoto's Philosopher's Path. Once home to Hara Sankei's head clerk, then to ethicist Watsuji Tetsuro and later philosopher Umehara Takeshi (d. 2019). Registered Tangible Cultural Property since 1998.

Muko Shrine Reception Hall
Kyoto 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Muko Shrine Reception Hall

An early Showa guest building of 95 square metres at Muko Shrine in Kyoto, T-shaped in plan, with a gabled porch and a formal eight-mat room at the back.

Muko Shrine Purification Pavilion
Kyoto 江戸 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Muko Shrine Purification Pavilion

A late Edo structure of 4.0 square metres at Muko Shrine in Kyoto, with its basin and well, framed asymmetrically so that worshippers can reach the water freely.

Muko Shrine Offering-Worship Hall and Main Hall Shelter
Kyoto 江戸 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Muko Shrine Offering-Worship Hall and Main Hall Shelter

Built in 1842 at Muko Shrine in Kyoto, this 277 sq m structure joins a main hall shelter, offering hall and worship hall. Dragon carving fills its front canopy.

Muko Shrine Auxiliary Kasuga Shrine Main Hall
Kyoto 江戸 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Muko Shrine Auxiliary Kasuga Shrine Main Hall

At just 0.55 square metres, this tiny one-bay hall at Muko Shrine in Kyoto was moved from a nearby village in 1878 and carries dense cloud carving on its gable.

Muko Shrine Auxiliary Katsuyama Inari Shrine Worship Hall
Kyoto 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Muko Shrine Auxiliary Katsuyama Inari Shrine Worship Hall

An early Showa hall at Muko Shrine in Kyoto, moved here around 1967. Three bays wide under a hipped gable, it borrows Kamakura-period forms for its struts.

Muko Shrine Auxiliary Katsuyama Inari Shrine Main Hall
Kyoto 大正 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Muko Shrine Auxiliary Katsuyama Inari Shrine Main Hall

A Taisho-period hall at Muko Shrine in Kyoto, brought from Osaka around 1967. One bay at the front and two at the back, it uses square posts rather than round ones.

Muko Shrine Auxiliary Gosha Shrine Main Hall
Kyoto 江戸 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Muko Shrine Auxiliary Gosha Shrine Main Hall

A late Edo hall at Muko Shrine in Kyoto, three bays by one under a gabled roof, its interior divided into five compartments, one for each of the shrines enshrined.

Muko Shrine Auxiliary Goryo Shrine Main Hall
Kyoto 江戸 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Muko Shrine Auxiliary Goryo Shrine Main Hall

A mid-Edo one-bay hall of the raised-shelf type at Muko Shrine in Kyoto, moved from a nearby village in 1877 and sheltered beneath its own covering roof.

Muko Shrine Auxiliary Soreisha Main Hall
Kyoto 江戸 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Muko Shrine Auxiliary Soreisha Main Hall

Dated 1688, this is the earliest listed building at Muko Shrine in Kyoto. Built first as a prayer hall, it keeps an unusual two-and-a-half-bay plan and plain walls.

Muko Shrine Auxiliary Soreisha Connecting Corridor
Kyoto 江戸 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Muko Shrine Auxiliary Soreisha Connecting Corridor

A late Edo covered walkway at Muko Shrine in Kyoto, running some 10 metres between the worship hall and the Soreisha, its southern end stepped down to a lower roof.

Muko Shrine Auxiliary Tenmangu Shrine Main Hall
Kyoto 江戸 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Muko Shrine Auxiliary Tenmangu Shrine Main Hall

Built in 1833 at Muko Shrine in Kyoto, this hall sets a gable-end canopy against a gabled body and roofs its three-part sanctuary as a building within a building.