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Izumo Daijingu's ritual implement storehouse in Kameoka, Kyoto: an 1885 two-storey clay store with white plaster, a namako tile band and carved brackets.
Izumo Daijingu's offering preparation hall in Kameoka, Kyoto: a 1908 building with a tatami room for priests and a board-floored kitchen with its own well.
Izumo Daijingu's notice board in Kameoka, Kyoto: an 1873 roofed frame for posted rules, 0.9 meters wide, with a stepped copper roof, standing beside the stone torii.
Izumo Daijingu's music pavilion in Kameoka, Kyoto: built in 1881 as the first offering hall and moved to a raised stone terrace east of the middle gate in 1908.
Izumo Daijingu's temizuya in Kameoka, Kyoto: an 1885 purification pavilion with four inward-leaning posts, a gently swelling gable roof and a shaped west beam.
Izumo Daijingu's worship hall in Kameoka, Kyoto: an open-sided 1878 hall under a cypress-bark roof, with round pillars, a coffered ceiling and double-tier rafters.
Completed in 1890 for the Inaba merchant family in Kumihama, Kyotango, this main house pairs a traditional exterior with a central-corridor plan and a tall doma.
The southern of two storehouses linked by corridor to the Inaba main house in Kumihama, Kyotango: a mid-Meiji two-storey earthen store with a separate roof.
The Meiji-era silk thread store of a Miyazu merchant family, largest on the plot, with a broad gable and paired windows. Registered in 2002 as a model of design.
A Meiji rice storehouse on a Miyazu street, walled in namako tile in a diamond lattice and a square grid, its eave aligned with the main house. Registered 2002.
The 1892 main house of a Miyazu silk-thread merchant family, with lattices, a lift-up plank door, a raised clerestory roof and a wing wall. Registered in 2002.
A Meiji tool storehouse at the back of the Imabayashi plot in Miyazu that preserves the fan-set rafters found among the city's stores. Registered in 2002.
The Imamiya Shrine Ekijinja Main Hall in Kyoto, home of the plague god behind Imamiya, was designed by Kameoka Suekichi around 1908 with fine medieval detail.
Designed by Kameoka Suekichi around 1908, the gate, passage hall and corridors before the Ekijinja at Imamiya Shrine in Kyoto bow gently and carry delicate carving.
Built in 1910 up stone steps at Imamiya Shrine in Kyoto, the Tsukuyomisha worship pavilion sets its sacred lattice boundary at the back, with a short fence.
Up stone steps on the west side of Imamiya Shrine in Kyoto, the 1910 Tsukuyomisha Main Hall is a plain one-bay shrine with one odd touch: a canopy tie beam set low.
Facing the eastern approach of Imamiya Shrine in Kyoto, the 1881 East Gate is a heavy yakuimon 4.1 metres wide, its thick posts and four beams carrying a tiled roof.
Built with the East Gate in 1881, the 27-metre earthen walls at Imamiya Shrine in Kyoto carry five white lines of rank, close-set rafters and carved end struts.
Rebuilt in 1902 by Ito Heizaemon, the offering hall, worship pavilion and corridors of Imamiya Shrine in Kyoto frame the sanctuary with carved gables.
The Imamiya Shrine Main Hall in Kyoto was rebuilt in 1902 by Ito Heizaemon after a fire; its gabled copper roof and deep front canopy reach out gracefully.