Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Kyoto

Built in 1942 so the Konoe archive could be examined properly: a 393 m2 sukiya villa with the tea room Tekian, and the one Yomei Bunko building visitors enter.

The plainest of Yomei Bunko's four registered buildings, and the one that works: a 159 m2 wooden office with entrance lattice and a fireplace chimney.

Konoe Fumimaro raised this 73 m2 vault in 1938, before founding the archive itself: reinforced concrete disguised as a merchant's storehouse, lifted off the damp ground.

Two years after the First Repository, wartime shortages forced this 1940 vault to give up its raised floor. Its upper storey is where the treasures are shown.

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.

The Japanese-style wing of Rakurakuso in Kameoka, Kyoto, of about 1898, held the rooms of Tanaka Gentaro and his wife, each with finely crafted alcoves and shelves.