Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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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 in Fushimi, Kyoto: a small Taisho-era timber brewhouse whose diagonally boarded gables carry a tortoiseshell-shaped vent.
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 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 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 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 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 in Fushimi, Kyoto: a late-Meiji brick store inherited from a drug factory, with round-windowed parapets and segmental arches.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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