Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Kyoto

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.

A late Edo timber fence at Muko Shrine in Kyoto, 17 metres long, turning at a right angle from the Tenmangu hall and finished with carved bracket noses.

A tiled timber enclosure of 1842 at Muko Shrine in Kyoto. Fifty-two metres of plain lattice fence wrap the main hall, pierced by two gates with openwork carving.

A c.1881 sukiya house at the Mushakoji Senke tea school in Kyoto, wrapping three tea rooms and a shrine to Sen no Rikyu around its living rooms. Registered 2004.

Kankyuan, the one-and-daime-mat tea room at Mushakoji Senke in Kyoto, rebuilt in 1926, with a narrow board set between guest and host mats. Registered 2004.

Kodoan, the 15-mat practice hall of Mushakoji Senke in Kyoto, rebuilt in 1940 for Rikyu's 350th memorial, with a board by Konoe Fumimaro. Registered in 2004.

A c.1881 white-plastered storehouse at the Mushakoji Senke tea school in Kyoto, with a tiled gable roof, three layered doors and two round windows. Registered 2004.

A 1913 timber hall at Gion Kobu Kaburenjo with a 132-tatami stage room facing a pond garden, now the Gion Kagai Art Museum with Kyomai dance upstairs. Visitor tips.

A 20-metre timber wall in Kumiyama, Kyoto, registered in 2010. Sharing a cut-stone base with the gate, it holds the street frontage of an Edo headman's compound.

A late Edo gatehouse in Kumiyama, Kyoto, registered in 2010. Its 27-metre plastered front, barred windows and crest tiles mark the rank of a village headman.

This northwest storehouse at the Yamanaka oil shop in Kamigyo Ward, Kyoto dates from the 1820s and was registered in 2007. Earthen walls guarded a flammable stock.

Registered in 2007, this late Edo townhouse in Kamigyo Ward, Kyoto keeps its folding display bench and plaster-barred attic windows, and still trades as an oil shop.

Built in 1900 and relocated by hikiya in 1971, this southeast storehouse in Kamigyo Ward, Kyoto was registered in 2007. Its white gable closes a street view.

A bracket-roofed service gate and 28 metres of tiled wall enclose the west side of the Yamamoto property in Kyoto. Registered in 2007; viewable from the back lane.

A two-storey wooden house of about 1940 in Kamigyo Ward, Kyoto, holding an Art Deco reception room inside a plain Japanese exterior. Registered 2007; still lived in.

A timber gate 1.8 metres wide and 19 metres of tiled wall front the Yamamoto property in Kyoto, registered in 2007 and freely visible from the street at any hour.

An ink inscription inside this 20-square-metre storehouse in Kyoto records a ridge-raising in 1940, supplying the only firm date for the Yamamoto property.