Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Kyoto

A tea room and garden waiting arbor of about 1926 at Muryoshian, Kyoto: a four-and-a-half-mat room behind a mizuya, and a polished-log arbor. Registered in 2008.

A 2-storey storehouse of about 1926 at Muryoshian, Kyoto, joined to the house by a covered passage, with iron doors and lime-plaster walls. Registered in 2008.

The smaller, older of the two Inaba storehouses in Kumihama, Kyotango: a late Edo earthen store that old drawings show was moved when the main house was built.

Completed in 1890 for the Inaba merchant family in Kumihama, Kyotango, this main house pairs a traditional exterior with a central-corridor plan and a tall doma.

A late Edo gatehouse on the street in Kumihama, Kyotango: two full storeys, an upper floor jutting 1 shaku and udatsu firewalls give it a town-house look.

The southern of two storehouses linked by corridor to the Inaba main house in Kumihama, Kyotango: a mid-Meiji two-storey earthen store with a separate roof.

The Meiji-era silk thread store of a Miyazu merchant family, largest on the plot, with a broad gable and paired windows. Registered in 2002 as a model of design.

An 1858 storehouse behind the Imabayashi silk shop in Miyazu, plastered with a boarded base, where a chirimen loom is said to have run in early Meiji. Listed 2009.

The late Edo shop where the Imabayashi family sold raw silk in Miyazu: an exposed-post front with twin firewalls and a projecting lattice, registered in 2009.

A Meiji rice storehouse on a Miyazu street, walled in namako tile in a diamond lattice and a square grid, its eave aligned with the main house. Registered 2002.

The 1892 main house of a Miyazu silk-thread merchant family, with lattices, a lift-up plank door, a raised clerestory roof and a wing wall. Registered in 2002.

A Meiji tool storehouse at the back of the Imabayashi plot in Miyazu that preserves the fan-set rafters found among the city's stores. Registered in 2002.

The Imamiya Shrine Ekijinja Main Hall in Kyoto, home of the plague god behind Imamiya, was designed by Kameoka Suekichi around 1908 with fine medieval detail.

Designed by Kameoka Suekichi around 1908, the gate, passage hall and corridors before the Ekijinja at Imamiya Shrine in Kyoto bow gently and carry delicate carving.

The 1800 Ema Hall at Imamiya Shrine in Kyoto is an open six-bay hall, the largest registered building on site, its beams hung with votive plaques from worshippers.

Joined to the Noh stage at the Imamiya Shrine Otabisho in Kyoto, the Kagami-no-ma is a late Edo dressing room with a small window for watching the bridgeway.

Rebuilt in 1795 at the Imamiya Shrine Otabisho in Kyoto's Kamigyo Ward, the Gondensha is the sanctuary where the deities stay during the Imamiya Festival in May.

Built in 1945 at the Imamiya Shrine Otabisho in Kyoto, this large hall holds the mikoshi during the Imamiya Festival, with high central openings and a trussed roof.

Rebuilt in 1795 at the Imamiya Shrine Otabisho in Kyoto, this early Noh stage keeps its pine-and-bamboo back panel, chorus seat and bridgeway to the dressing room.

The Imamiya Shrine Kagura Hall in Kyoto, built in 1839, puts a small sanctum and a dance room under one copper roof and links them to the main hall by a passage.

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