Edo
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House of 1825 of the headmen of Kokura village, Maizuru, Kyoto, a fine late Edo Tango house with clay-coated rafters, bold curved beams and a bamboo ceiling.
Founded in 1594 and rebuilt in 1621, Yogen-in keeps Fushimi Castle floorboards overhead and Sotatsu's painted cedar doors. Four of its buildings were listed in 2016.
The Yoshiminedera Temple Tahoto Pagoda in western Kyoto, dated 1621 by its ridge tag, is a small, slender, graceful pagoda with a bark roof. Designated in 1977.
The early Edo shoin of Ryokoin at Daitokuji, Kyoto, a National Treasure since 1961, containing the Mittan tea room said to reflect Kobori Enshu's taste.
Once the main hall of Amino Shrine, this 1782 building is the oldest here. Reborn in 1925 as Koori Shrine, its cypress-bark hall carries lavish Edo-period carving.
Built in 1807 at Shichiku in northern Kyoto, the Araki Family Residence main house keeps its roof monitor, earth-floored passage and street-facing front garden.
Behind the Araki Family Residence in northern Kyoto stands a late Edo storehouse of sixteen square metres, its roof set on posts that carry purlins without beams.
The shoin of Anrakuji in Shishigatani, Kyoto, a late Edo guest hall linked to the main hall, has three rooms, the inner one a sukiya room of logs and clay walls.
The main hall of Anrakuji in Shishigatani, Kyoto, a late Edo Jodo hall, has a skirted pyramidal front hall with a gabled inner hall projecting behind it.
Izumo Daijingu's stone torii in Kameoka, Kyoto: a granite gateway of 1718 donated by parishioners, 4.8 meters wide, each lintel cut from a single stone.
Izumo Daijingu's Kami-no-Yashiro in Kameoka, Kyoto: an 1813 one-bay sanctuary on Mount Mikage copying the main hall's plan at small scale, with a porch.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.