Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Kyoto

On the west of Heian Jingu's south court, the West Gate, or Shozenmon, and its L-shaped corridor enclose the court. Built in 1940, it mirrors the east side.

West of Heian Jingu's west corridor, the East Saikiko is a two-story plaster storehouse first built in 1907 and relocated here in 1940, marked by board-clad lower walls.

Behind Heian Jingu's sanctuary, the 1940 East Shinko is a small log storehouse about 3.6 meters square, its bare white wood standing out amid the vermilion precinct.

On the east of Heian Jingu's south court, the East Gate, or Senseimon, and its 50-meter corridor enclose the court, their vermilion frame and green lattice defining it.

Heian Jingu's South Walkway is a 1940 L-shaped passage tying the Soryuro and Byakkoro towers to the outer corridors, two bays wide with a latticed central wall.

A registered wooden house of 1921 in Hanazono, Kyoto, built for a businessman home from Russia. Traditional outside, with a modern middle corridor. Private home.

The late Edo northwest storehouse of the Hori Family Residence in Joyo, Kyoto runs 9.9 metres on a cut-stone base, its plastered street wall boarded below.

The 1859 main house of the Hori Family Residence in Joyo, Kyoto keeps an upper-tier farmhouse plan: an earth-floored west half, six rooms east, a formal entry step.

The late Edo long gatehouse of the Hori Family Residence in Joyo, Kyoto has a room with a projecting lattice window, board doors and a small wicket beside them.

Built around 1902, the detached guest rooms of the Hori Family Residence in Joyo, Kyoto show sukiya detailing: a bark-covered post, a fan-shaped wall opening.

The 1875 east storehouse of the Hori Family Residence in Joyo, Kyoto joins the main house by a covered passage, roofed in hongawara with trowelled lettering.

A Meiji-era sukiya residence beside Kumano Nyakuoji Shrine at the southern end of Kyoto's Philosopher's Path. Once home to Hara Sankei's head clerk, then to ethicist Watsuji Tetsuro and later philosopher Umehara Takeshi (d. 2019). Registered Tangible Cultural Property since 1998.

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.

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