Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Kyoto

The Rengetsuan at Jinkoin in Nishigamo, Kyoto, is the late Edo hermitage of the nun, poet and potter Otagaki Rengetsu, with a bamboo ceiling and a round window.

The Senzai Family Residence Old Storehouse in Fushimi, Kyoto, is an early Meiji plastered storehouse raised on a stone base built against river floods.

The Senzai Family Residence Main House in Fushimi, Kyoto, is a large merchant townhouse of 1869 with a lattice and plank front and a deep earthen passage.

The Senzai Family Residence New Storehouse in Fushimi, Kyoto, is a 1927 storehouse with walls of washed artificial stone, raised on a stone base against floods.

The Senzai Family Residence Annex in Fushimi, Kyoto, is a 1933 sukiya annex with a hatchet-marked alcove post, wave-carved shelves and a round window.

Octagonal sutra hall of 1925 by Fujii Koji at Daikakuji, Kyoto, recreating a wooden hall in concrete to house the sealed Heart Sutras copied by emperors.

Repository of 1928 by Takeda Goichi at the Iwakura Tomomi Former Residence in Kyoto: a small concrete building with a tiled roof and scratch-tile walls.

Front gate of Daishoji, an imperial convent in Kyoto: a large late Edo yakuimon, moved in 1922, with a tiled gable roof befitting the leading imperial convent.

Entrance hall of 1923 at Daishoji, an imperial convent in Kyoto, with a large copper-roofed porch under a cusped gable, designed with arriving motor cars in mind.

Tea house of 1938 at Daishoji, an imperial convent in Kyoto, linked to the palace hall: an L-shaped building around a small tea room, a fine modern example.

High wall of around 1942 at Daishoji in Kyoto, 36 metres long, dividing the approach to the entrance hall from the forecourt; plastered, with a tiled coping.

Earthen wall of around 1922 along Karasuma-dori at Daishoji, an imperial convent in Kyoto: 59 metres long, tiled, with five white stripes on the street side.

Late Edo earthen wall on the south side of Daishoji, an imperial convent in Kyoto: 66 metres long, tiled and striped, with a small gate for the "impure" in the west.

Main hall of 1942 at Daishoji, an imperial convent in Kyoto: a six-room abbot's hall with balustraded verandas and a guest room with a painted alcove.

Late Edo palace hall at Daishoji, an imperial convent in Kyoto: a formal west wing of four rooms and a sukiya-style east wing, the residence of princess-abbesses.

Corridor of 1942 at Daishoji, an imperial convent in Kyoto, linking the main and entrance halls: a double passage, boarded and matted, with a firewall partway along.

Kenkun Shrine Grand Torii, a 7.2 m myojin gateway of unpainted Taiwan cypress built in 1934, marks the east entrance to Nobunaga's shrine on Kyoto's Mount Funaoka.

Kenkun Shrine Guest House is a tiled 1880 reception hall moved up Kyoto's Mount Funaoka in 1910, with a curved carriage porch and railed verandas facing east.

Kenkun Shrine Ceremony Vessel Storehouse is a two-storey earthen store of 1880, moved in 1929, with a placed tiled roof and an upstairs door suited to the site.

Kenkun Shrine Office, built in 1929 on Kyoto's Mount Funaoka, pairs a tiled roof with a shingled entrance canopy and tall openings. It is still the shrine office.

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