Important Cultural Property of Kyoto

At Gyokuhōin, Myōshin-ji's oldest sub-temple, a cypress-bark gate fronts the founder's hall. Tradition dates it to 1409, among Japan's oldest surviving karamon.

The main hall of Gyokurin-in, a sub-temple of Daitokuji in Kyoto, built in 1621, is a large eight-room abbot's hall with paintings by the Kano Tan'yu school.

Three-bay yakuimon gate of the Momoyama period at Kodaiji, Kyoto, with a gabled tile roof, from the founding years of the temple Nene built for Hideyoshi.

Founder's hall of 1605 at Kodaiji, Kyoto, once a private chapel, standing between pond gardens to the east and west that are attributed to Kobori Enshu.

Two thatched tea houses at Kodaiji, Kyoto: the single-storey, pyramid-roofed Karakasa-tei and the two-storey Shigure-tei, designated together in 1936.

Tiny Momoyama-period pavilion at Kodaiji, Kyoto, built for viewing the moon: one bay square, with cusped karahafu gables on three sides and a cypress-bark roof.

Mausoleum of 1605 at Kodaiji, Kyoto, enshrining Toyotomi Hideyoshi and his widow Nene, its altar and shrines decorated in the celebrated Momoyama Kodaiji maki-e.

Main hall of Kobaiin, a Myoshinji sub-temple in Kyoto, securely dated to 1604: a shingled hip-and-gable abbot's hall that is a well-formed example of the Zen type.

Sagara Shrine Main Hall in Kizugawa is a three-bay nagare sanctuary of the early Muromachi era, mixing Japanese, Chinese and Great Buddha details. Designated 1911.

A three-bay nagare-style sanctuary of 1494 at Saguri Shrine in Kumiyama, Kyoto, with carvings of birds, deer and squirrels among grapes, and colour renewed in 1981.

The Sawai Family Residence in Kyotanabe, Kyoto, was home to deputies of the convent Donge-in. Rebuilt in 1740-41, it and its construction papers are designated.

The octagonal, vermilion Sanshōji Aizen-dō rises beyond the Tsūten-kyō at Kyoto's Tōfuku-ji. This rare early-Muromachi hall enshrines the love-deity Aizen Myō-ō.

Built in 1502, this three-bay hall is Fukuchiyama's oldest building. An ink inscription dated it, while excavation found pits where fires burned beneath its gods.

Shūon'an, or Ikkyū-ji, is where the witty Zen monk Ikkyū spent his last years and lies buried behind a locked imperial gate, amid historic halls and gardens.

This stone pagoda of thirteen storeys in a Kamo cemetery in Kizugawa, dated 1298, is a late Kamakura monument protected since 1937 as an Important Cultural Property.

The main hall of Juhachi Shrine in Uji, Kyoto, built in 1487, is a three-bay nagare-style hall roofed in wood shingles, designated with its ridge tags.

The main hall of Shodenji in northern Kyoto, a Momoyama-period building from Fushimi Castle, keeps a blood ceiling said to come from the castle siege of 1600.

The Yorinan Shoin at Jodoin, a sub-temple of Byodoin in Uji, is a Momoyama-period (1573–1614) hall said to reuse Fushimi Castle timber; it is not open to visitors.

Momoyama-period hall at Jingoji in Takao, Kyoto, with a shingled hip-and-gable roof, enshrining a relief figure of Kobo Daishi shown each year from November 1 to 7.

Priests' quarters of 1609 at Shinjuan in Daitokuji, Kyoto, a gable-entry shingled building in the only intact abbot's hall and kuri layout of Daitokuji.

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