Edo
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The Sato Family Residence East Rice Storehouse in Nagaokakyo is a late Edo kura built against the west rice store, with a stepped ridge, deep porch and south door.
The front gate of Jisaiin, a Zen sub-temple at Tenryu-ji in Kyoto, dates to 1615-1661. A plank strut carries its ridge above a clamped tie beam. Registered in 2016.
The priests' quarters of Jisaiin, a Zen sub-temple at Tenryu-ji in Kyoto, date to 1799. A carved gable crowns the front, and bold beams rise over the earthen floor.
A late Edo corridor joins the main hall and priests' quarters of Jisaiin at Tenryu-ji, Kyoto. Its porch faces the gate; three rainbow beams span its ten-mat room.
Behind the main hall of Jisaiin, a Tenryu-ji sub-temple in Kyoto, this late Edo shoin is the sole pre-modern shoin at Tenryu-ji. Bark-edged posts add a sukiya touch.
Built in 1816 at Jisaiin, a Zen sub-temple of Tenryu-ji in Kyoto, this six-room hojo hall runs one ceiling across three front rooms. Registered in 2016 as a model.
A late Edo earthen storehouse in the northwest corner of a Daigo farmstead in Kyoto, linked to the house by a passage, with climbing beams and a floating tile roof.
A late Edo farmhouse at Daigo in Kyoto: a thatched hip-and-gable roof, a lower tiled wing of two reception rooms, and five rooms beside an old earth floor.
A former rice store of the 1830s to 1860s at Daigo in Kyoto, built on a trapezoid plan to fit its corner lot, with round-and-flat tiles and boarded walls.
A two-storey guest wing from the 1830s to 1860s at Daigo in Kyoto: a six-mat room over the garden, a small tearoom, and an upper room with windows on three sides.
The late Edo Jozenji Temple Main Gate in Kyoto is a 3.6 m yakuimon on Kuramaguchi-dori, its four beams dressed with kaerumata and minozuka struts. Registered 2017.
The late Edo Jozenji Temple Shoin in Kyoto, joined to the main hall by a corridor, has a six-room abbot's-quarters plan, a coffered sanctuary and a formal alcove.
Built in 1812, the Jozenji Temple Main Hall in Kyoto is a 5-by-6-bay Pure Land hall with a hip-and-gable tiled roof and three-bay porch, registered in 2017.
The guest hall of Jinkoin in Nishigamo, Kyoto, built in 1826, has a formal entrance and nine rooms in three rows, including a raised room with alcove and shelves.
The gate of Jinkoin in Nishigamo, Kyoto, a late Edo yakuimon gate with thick posts, a heavy lintel and a plum-blossom gable pendant, is plain but dignified.
The main hall of Jinkoin in Nishigamo, Kyoto, one of the three Kobo temples of the city, is a mid-sized hall of 1829 with half-shutters across its whole front.
The Rengetsuan at Jinkoin in Nishigamo, Kyoto, is the late Edo hermitage of the nun, poet and potter Otagaki Rengetsu, with a bamboo ceiling and a round window.
Front gate of Daishoji, an imperial convent in Kyoto: a large late Edo yakuimon, moved in 1922, with a tiled gable roof befitting the leading imperial convent.
Late Edo earthen wall on the south side of Daishoji, an imperial convent in Kyoto: 66 metres long, tiled and striped, with a small gate for the "impure" in the west.
Late Edo palace hall at Daishoji, an imperial convent in Kyoto: a formal west wing of four rooms and a sukiya-style east wing, the residence of princess-abbesses.