Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Kyoto

Discover the Main Hall of Daishoji, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Kyoto relocated from the Aoyama Imperial Palace in Tokyo. Explore the history of this imperial Buddhist convent founded in 1382, its elegant hōjō-style architecture, and the legacy of imperial princesses who called it home.

The Miya Goten at Daishoji Temple, a nationally registered tangible cultural property, is a palatial hall built in the imperial style to welcome a princess of Emperor Kōkaku into this highest-ranking Buddhist convent near the Kyoto Imperial Palace. Featuring elegant Edo-period architecture with irimoya and sukiya-style wings, fusuma paintings, a designated scenic karesansui garden, and an exceptional collection of imperial dolls, it preserves over five centuries of ama-monzeki culture where imperial women practiced Buddhism while maintaining courtly arts.

Discover the covered corridor (watari-rōka) of Daishoji Temple, a nationally registered tangible cultural property in Kyoto. This imperial nunnery near Kyoto Imperial Palace preserves centuries of royal Buddhist heritage.

Discover the Grand Torii of Takeisao (Kenkun) Shrine, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1934 from Taiwanese Alishan hinoki cypress. Standing at the foot of Mount Funaoka in Kyoto, this majestic gate marks the entrance to the shrine honoring the legendary warlord Oda Nobunaga.

Kenkun Shrine on Mount Funaoka honours Oda Nobunaga. Its 1880 Guest House, moved uphill in 1910, has a curved carriage porch and a balustraded veranda facing Higashiyama.

At Kenkun Shrine, the Ceremony Vessel Storehouse holds implements for its rites. Built in 1880 and moved in 1929, the plastered two-story dozo has its doorway upstairs.

Discover the Kenkun Shrine Shamusho (Social Affairs Office), a nationally registered tangible cultural property built in 1929, nestled on Mount Funaoka in Kyoto. Explore the shrine dedicated to Japan's legendary unifier, Oda Nobunaga.

At Kenkun Shrine, the Offering Hall is where food for the deity is prepared. Built in 1884 and moved in 1910, it has a cypress-bark roof, a kitchen and a tatami room.

At Kenkun Shrine, the Lattice Fence rings the sanctuary for 55 metres. Built in 1910, it sets a boarded wainscot below an open diamond lattice marking the sacred edge.

Discover Doshisha Women's College James Hall, a 1914 brick building by architect Takeda Goichi standing across from Kyoto Imperial Palace—where California-inspired walls meet a Japanese tile roof in a refined wakon-yōsai masterpiece.

Behind a tall wall in central Kyoto, a 1909 takabei-zukuri residence blends shoin-style refinement with late-Meiji craft. Registered, restrained, still a working ryokan.

A 1909 two-story earthen storehouse at the rear of a Kyoto machiya in Shimogyō, the Toshiharu Dozō shows hongawara tile, deep eaves, and a black-plastered doorway.

A small early Meiji gatehouse in Muko City, Kyoto, facing the old Saigoku Kaido. Its north half holds a two-mat room with a projecting lattice window. Listed 2008.

In Muko City, Kyoto, an early Meiji annex and the inner gate continuing from its eave divide the Nakakoji estate's formal front from its private corner. Listed 2008.

The Main House of the Nakano Family Residence in Nagaokakyo, Kyoto, is a late Edo dwelling registered in 2010. It now serves meals and coffee as Nakanotei.

The Tea House of the Nakano Family Residence in Nagaokakyo, Kyoto, built in 1951, is a four-and-a-half-mat room named Koan with a lit four-panel woven ceiling.

The Storehouse of the Nakano Family Residence in Nagaokakyo, Kyoto, is a late Edo earthen-walled dozo of just 25 square metres, registered nationally in 2010.

A 1917 earthen-walled storehouse in Yawata, Kyoto, registered in 2012 for the riverbank view it completes. Drip tiles and clay doors reward a look from Ankobashi.

The early Showa gate of a Yawata villa is just 2.1 metres wide, yet packs a bowed roof, adze-finished posts and a slatted transom into it. Registered in 2012.

Built around 1917 for an Osaka theatre owner, this Yawata reception hall pairs a coved coffered ceiling with a raised dais. Registered 2012; now a rental stay.

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