Kamakura

The early Kamakura worship hall of Ujigami Shrine in Uji, Kyoto, a National Treasure since 1952, residential in style and the oldest surviving worship hall.

Uji Shrine's main hall is a three-bay nagare-zukuri of the Kamakura period. Until 1883 it was one shrine with Ujigami uphill. A looking-back rabbit guides you here.

The five-storied pagoda of Kaijusenji in Kizugawa, Kyoto, completed in 1214 and a National Treasure since 1952, with unique bracketing and a first-storey pent roof.

Five-ring stone pagoda of the late Kamakura period at Gansenji in Kizugawa, Kyoto, over 2 metres tall, a Yamato-style example said to be a Todaiji official's grave.

Granite thirteen-storey pagoda of the late Kamakura period at Gansenji in Kizugawa, Kyoto, 5.5 metres tall, carved with Sanskrit syllables of the four Buddhas.

Granite niche shrine of 1312 at Gansenji in Kizugawa, Kyoto: two posts carry a single-stone hipped roof over a low-relief Fudo Myoo and a dated inscription.

A Kamakura-period four-legged gate on Hachijo-dori marking Tō-ji's northern edge and opening onto Kushige-koji, a lane that keeps its Heian-period width.

An early Kamakura eight-legged gate on Omiya-dori at Tō-ji's northeast corner, where five Fushimi Inari portable shrines are welcomed every year on May 3.

A 1.6-meter wooden pagoda donated to Tō-ji in 1240 by Senyomon-in and found in the Founder's Hall in 1955. Its details, dating and when it may be on view.

Tō-ji's only National Treasure gate, an early Kamakura eight-legged gate on the west side, keeps archaic rafters, bargeboards and gable framing. Its story.

The early Kamakura octagonal hall of the Keikyuin at Koryuji, Kyoto, a National Treasure since 1953, a light and elegant round hall of about 1251.

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.

Kamakura-period mikoshi store at Sakatoke Shrine on Mount Tenno, Oyamazaki, Kyoto: a tiled store of stacked squared timbers at Otokuni's oldest shrine.

The stone pagoda of Tenjin Shrine in Kizugawa, Kyoto, raised in 1277 in the mid-Kamakura period, is among the oldest thirteen-storey pagodas with a known date.

A granite thirteen-story pagoda at Hōsen-ji in Kyotanabe, Kyoto, dated 1278 by its inscription and signed by a mason of the Song-Chinese stone-carving lineage.

A late Kamakura main hall at Honganji, a Jodo temple in Kumihama, Kyotango, designated 1904: Tango's only medieval Buddhist hall, under a gentle cypress-bark roof.

Early Kamakura stone pagoda at Raigoin in Ohara, Kyoto, venerated as the grave of Ryonin, who founded the temple as the centre of Tendai shomyo chant.

The main hall of Rengeoin in Kyoto, rebuilt in 1266 to house a thousand Kannon images: a 35-bay hall of Kamakura-period wayo style, made a National Treasure in 1952.

Seven Kamakura scrolls at Kozanji, Kyoto, telling the stories of the Silla monks Uisang and Wonhyo, a National Treasure since 1952.

A National Treasure at Nishi Honganji, Kyoto: a handscroll on which Shinran, founder of Shin Buddhism, copied the Amida Sutra and noted commentaries in the margins.