Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Kyoto

Behind the main hall of Jisaiin, a Tenryu-ji sub-temple in Kyoto, this late Edo shoin is the sole pre-modern shoin at Tenryu-ji. Bark-edged posts add a sukiya touch.

Built in 1816 at Jisaiin, a Zen sub-temple of Tenryu-ji in Kyoto, this six-room hojo hall runs one ceiling across three front rooms. Registered in 2016 as a model.

Shibata Family Residence Main House, a 1912 farmhouse in Keihoku, Kyoto, framed by a city carpenter: earth floor, six rooms, red bengara timber and a shrine shelf.

Shibata Family Residence Earthen Wall in Keihoku, Kyoto: a 42 m tile-capped clay wall of about 1912 on a stone base above a roadside channel, in rough clay finish.

Shibata Family Residence Bathhouse in Keihoku, Kyoto: a 1912 bath building with plaster walls, a brick dado on the bathroom side and blue-and-white tiles inside.

Shibata Family Residence Roji Gate in Keihoku, Kyoto: a 1.9 m yakuimon gate of about 1912 with stacked beams, a forked gable and red bengara paint, before a garden.

Kyoto's 1932 alumni hall for the Prefectural Normal School — Spanish-tile parapets, arched windows, and Art Deco round windows survive intact in northern Kyoto.

A late Edo earthen storehouse in the northwest corner of a Daigo farmstead in Kyoto, linked to the house by a passage, with climbing beams and a floating tile roof.

A late Edo farmhouse at Daigo in Kyoto: a thatched hip-and-gable roof, a lower tiled wing of two reception rooms, and five rooms beside an old earth floor.

A former rice store of the 1830s to 1860s at Daigo in Kyoto, built on a trapezoid plan to fit its corner lot, with round-and-flat tiles and boarded walls.

A two-storey guest wing from the 1830s to 1860s at Daigo in Kyoto: a six-mat room over the garden, a small tearoom, and an upper room with windows on three sides.

Built in 1918 to house the Kuramaguchi Jizo, the Jozenji Temple Kannon Hall in Kyoto became a Kannon hall in 2016. Registered 2017; opened only on 22-23 August.

The late Edo Jozenji Temple Main Gate in Kyoto is a 3.6 m yakuimon on Kuramaguchi-dori, its four beams dressed with kaerumata and minozuka struts. Registered 2017.

The late Edo Jozenji Temple Shoin in Kyoto, joined to the main hall by a corridor, has a six-room abbot's-quarters plan, a coffered sanctuary and a formal alcove.

Built in 1812, the Jozenji Temple Main Hall in Kyoto is a 5-by-6-bay Pure Land hall with a hip-and-gable tiled roof and three-bay porch, registered in 2017.

The Seiryuden of Shorenin, Kyoto's former Butokuden of 1913, was moved to the Higashiyama hilltop in 2014 to serve a fire-ritual hall and keeps its tall dojo.

The guest hall of Jinkoin in Nishigamo, Kyoto, built in 1826, has a formal entrance and nine rooms in three rows, including a raised room with alcove and shelves.

The gate of Jinkoin in Nishigamo, Kyoto, a late Edo yakuimon gate with thick posts, a heavy lintel and a plum-blossom gable pendant, is plain but dignified.

The Chukodo of Jinkoin in Nishigamo, Kyoto, a hall of 1917, layers a gabled roof and a cusped porch in front of a pyramid-roofed core, with inventive round rafters.

The main hall of Jinkoin in Nishigamo, Kyoto, one of the three Kobo temples of the city, is a mid-sized hall of 1829 with half-shutters across its whole front.

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