Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The Front Gate of Yoshida Sanso is a 1932 hira-karamon 3.9 meters wide, credited by the ryokan to temple carpenter Nishioka Tsunekazu and visible from the lane.

The North Storehouse of Yoshida Sanso is a 1932 dozo storehouse of white plaster, linked to the Main Building and framed with sloping beams, unlike its twin.

The Former Garage of Yoshida Sanso is a 1932 Western-style building with a French-tile gambrel roof and dormers, now in use as the ryokan's Cafe Shinkokan.

Beside the Front Gate of Yoshida Sanso stands a 1932 gatekeeper's lodge of 12 square meters, its lattice window facing the lane from a stone-faced plinth.

The 1932 Main Building of Yoshida Sanso pairs tatami rooms with stained glass copied from an ancient mirror, the only building here registered as a model of form.

The South Storehouse of Yoshida Sanso is a 1932 dozo storehouse of 19 square meters beside its twin, with an araidashi mortar base and a strut-framed roof.

Between the Raku family's main house and main storehouse in Kyoto: a two-storey earthen store with stepped, fire-tight doors and a 6-mat anteroom. Registered 2007.

The Raku potters' gate on Aburanokoji Street, Kyoto: 4.5 metres of sliding lattice doors and wainscoted earthen walls under a tiled gable. Registered 2007.

Behind the Raku family's Kyoto home, a small clay-lined shed holds the wood-fired red Raku kiln and the black Raku kiln, both registered in 2007 with the building.

Beside the Raku potters' gate in Kyoto, a 4.6 square metre shelter where tea guests wait: a bench inside, a lattice window to the street, a privy. Registered 2007.

The two-storey heart of the Raku potters' home in Kyoto: 11 by 7 bays, a plain townhouse front hiding sukiya-style rooms. Registered in 2007; interior is private.

In the far corner of the Raku potters' compound in Kyoto, a slate-roofed shed on brick footings where tea-bowl clay is stored and pounded. Registered 2007; private.

South of the Raku potters' gate in Kyoto, a 3.0 square metre shelter where guests' attendants once waited, with a bench and a lattice window. Registered in 2007.

North-west of the Raku family's main house in Kyoto, a two-storey plastered storehouse with an Inari shrine built into its eave and the kiln house against its wall.

Rakushisha in Saga, Kyoto, a thatched hut that goes back to the hermitage of Basho's disciple Kyorai and was rebuilt in 1770, is where Basho wrote his Saga Diary.

Rakurakuso Nihonkan is railway magnate Tanaka Gentaro's 1898 shoin hall in Kameoka, with master and wife rooms showing peak Meiji carpentry above Ueji's pond garden.

The Rakurakuso Western-Style Building in Kameoka, Kyoto Prefecture, was completed around 1898 by Shimizu-gumi as the residence of industrialist and Kyoto Railway founder Tanaka Gentaro. This two-story brick mansion, listed as a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property, features distinctive verandas on its east and south façades and richly varied interiors where each room boasts a different fireplace and floor design — a rare and remarkably complete example of late-Meiji domestic architecture, surviving alongside its companion Japanese Hall, Entrance, and a celebrated stroll garden by Ogawa Jihei VII.

Rikyu Hachimangu Kotengu Shrine, a tiny east-facing shrine of about 1928 in Oyamazaki, has inokosasu gables and a bracket design shared with the worship hall.

Rikyu Hachimangu Shrine Lattice Fence, a 38-metre U-shaped fence of about 1928 in Oyamazaki, encloses the main hall with diamond lattice above solid boards.

Rikyu Hachimangu Shrine Middle Gate, a four-legged gate of about 1928 in Oyamazaki, fronts the worship hall with a bracket modeled on Tofukuji's Gekkamon.

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