Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A tiny teahouse on Kaga Shotaro's estate, a log-framed room projecting over a stone base set into the slope, a deft blend of West and Japan. Not normally open.

An English Tudor villa the financier Kaga Shotaro designed himself, its half-timbered shell and Jacobean rooms now a museum showing Monet and Mingei crafts.

A stone myojin torii marking the approach to Amino Shrine, raised in 1881 and 5.5 metres tall. Toppled in the 1927 quake, it was rebuilt to its original form in 1929.

Once the main hall of Amino Shrine, this 1782 building is the oldest here. Reborn in 1925 as Koori Shrine, its cypress-bark hall carries lavish Edo-period carving.

By the worship hall stands Amino Shrine's offering hall, an early-Showa building where offerings for the deities are prepared, plain but carefully made.

Wrapping around the main hall of Amino Shrine, this thirty-metre early-Showa openwork fence is solid below and latticed above, ringing the sacred inner ground.

Beside the approach to Amino Shrine stands its ablution pavilion, built in 1943 to mark the shrine's promotion to prefectural rank, open on all sides under a copper roof.

The largest of Amino Shrine's eight registered buildings, this worship hall was rebuilt in 1929 after the 1927 earthquake, with layered chidori and kara gables.

At the center of Amino Shrine on the Sea of Japan coast stands its 1922 main hall, a compact nagare-zukuri building finely carved by its designer Kishi Kumakichi.

A short covered corridor linking the worship hall to the main hall of Amino Shrine, built around 1929. Its thin brackets and curved rafters show a delicate touch.

Spanning the Yura River in Ayabe, Kyoto, the Ayabe Ohashi Bridge is a 210-metre seven-span steel curved-chord Warren truss bridge completed in 1929. Designated a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2005, it remains in active service as a road bridge and stands as a rare and beautiful example of early-Showa civil engineering.

The Arai Family Residence Main Building in Yodo, Fushimi, Kyoto, is a registered tangible cultural property completed in 1926. This wooden two-story home elegantly fuses a Spanish-tiled Western wing with a sukiya-style Japanese parlor, embodying the refined taste of pre-war suburban living.

Anrakuji's Shoin, a late-Edo hall registered in 2003, faces a clipped-azalea dry garden with the Higashiyama hills as borrowed scenery near the Philosopher's Path.

The Main Hall of Anrakuji, just east of Kyoto's Philosopher's Path, is a Late Edo-period Pure Land hall registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2003. Built to memorialize the priests Junren and Anraku, it is open only during seasonal cherry-blossom, azalea, and autumn-foliage viewings.

North of the Wakamiya-sha, at the end of a row of small halls, the Hiyoshi-sha is a late-Edo shelf shrine of just 1.6 sq m, the smallest of Imamiya's buildings.

Standing before Imamiya Shrine's Honden, the 1902 Heiden, worship area and corridors shape the space worshippers face, with a cusped gable and cloud carving.

The Honden of Imamiya Shrine in Kyoto's Murasakino was rebuilt in 1902 after a fire, standing beside the older Ekijinja hall, now a Registered Cultural Property.

This 65-metre earthen wall wraps Imamiya Shrine's Honden and Ekijinja. A gate is set in its north face, and five plaster lines mark the highest rank.

At the southeast corner of the Imamiya precinct, the Munakata-sha of about 1694 stands on a cut-stone base carved with a catfish, a tiny hall of varied joinery.

The two-story Romon on the south front of Imamiya Shrine was built in 1926, its three-stepped brackets a fine example of modern shrine-temple carpentry.

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