Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Kyoto

Built in 1926 beside the Tower Gate of Imamiya Shrine in Kyoto, the East Corridor gathers its finest work in the gables, with medieval-style struts and brackets.

The 1694 Wakamiyasha Worship Hall at Imamiya Shrine in Kyoto is a one-bay open pavilion with a coffered ceiling, a small echo of the shrine's main worship hall.

Built in 1694, the Imamiya Shrine Wakamiyasha Main Hall in Kyoto, a shrine for the blessing of children, joins two Kasuga-style roofs with ridges linked in an H.

The 1694 gate and openwork fence of Wakamiyasha at Imamiya Shrine in Kyoto enclose the sanctuary with a stepped tiled gate roof and 26 metres of diamond lattice.

The worship and central hall of Ura Shrine in Ine, Kyoto, built in 1884, is an open split hall whose dragon in clouds and other carvings are by Nakai Gonji.

The main hall of Ura Shrine, also called Urashima Shrine, in Ine, Kyoto, built in 1884, is a tall thatched hall with crossed finials, a fine Tango shinmei type.

Uronza in Shimogyo, Kyoto, a townhouse of 1897 built by the Nagaoka family of carpenters, has a front lattice and mushiko windows and is now a guesthouse.

The former Gion branch of the Murai Bank in Kyoto, built in 1924 by Yoshitake Choichi, is a concrete bank in an American-trained classical style, now Emma.

The Mirokuden of Oomoto at Baishoen in Ayabe, Kyoto, a worship hall of 1953 over 50 metres long, hides a steel frame under timber and has a vast coffered hall.

Kaga Shōtarō's Tudor half-timber former garage beneath Mount Tennōzan, registered as a Cultural Property and now operated as a free rest house by Kyoto Prefecture on the wooded grounds of Ōyamazaki Sansō.

A 1934 bracketed gate fronting a Kitashirakawa villa by Fujii Koji, with a slatted transom, copper roof and a boulder set in its stone floor. Registered 2020.

Late Edo town house of the Ogawa Bunsai potters on Gojozaka, Kyoto, with a projecting-beam front, two kinds of upper lattice and an alcoved room behind.

Small late Edo storehouse at the Ogawa Bunsai potters' house on Gojozaka, Kyoto, two bays square and carefully plastered, adding charm to the back garden.

Early Meiji six-chamber climbing kiln of firebrick at the Ogawa Bunsai potters' house on Gojozaka, Kyoto, 11 metres long with a brick chimney at one corner.

A two-mat tea-room-style hut of 1937 in Kawai Kanjiro's courtyard, built of thick farmhouse timbers with a slatted ceiling and a well, used for thought, not tea.

Kawai Kanjiro designed this 1937 Kyoto house himself: a hipped, gable-entry timber home with a lattice front and a double-height hall around an irori hearth.

Kawai Kanjiro's wheel room of about 1929, older than his house: an earth-floored room and a board floor split into chair and sitting levels, the wheel on the higher.

The Meiji-era brick climbing kiln Kawai Kanjiro took over in 1920 and named Shokei-yo: 15 m long under a timber shelter, cut from nine chambers to eight.

On the Tanba Kaido in Nagaokakyo, this Taisho wall of 6.5 m sets a latticed front gate in its central bay, with boarded lower walls, white plaster and tiled coping.

Facing the Tanba Kaido in Nagaokakyo, this late Edo farmhouse is 13 m wide, with deep lean-to eaves on three sides and an altar room and reception room to the north.

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