Meiji
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The late Meiji earthen wall round the Imamiya Shrine Main Hall in Kyoto runs 65.4 metres, with a small north gate and five white lines said to mark top rank.
The worship and central hall of Ura Shrine in Ine, Kyoto, built in 1884, is an open split hall whose dragon in clouds and other carvings are by Nakai Gonji.
The main hall of Ura Shrine, also called Urashima Shrine, in Ine, Kyoto, built in 1884, is a tall thatched hall with crossed finials, a fine Tango shinmei type.
Uronza in Shimogyo, Kyoto, a townhouse of 1897 built by the Nagaoka family of carpenters, has a front lattice and mushiko windows and is now a guesthouse.
Early Meiji six-chamber climbing kiln of firebrick at the Ogawa Bunsai potters' house on Gojozaka, Kyoto, 11 metres long with a brick chimney at one corner.
The Meiji-era brick climbing kiln Kawai Kanjiro took over in 1920 and named Shokei-yo: 15 m long under a timber shelter, cut from nine chambers to eight.
Building of 1906 by Takeda Goichi for the Kansai Art Academy in Okazaki, Kyoto, with a trussed lean-to roof and large north windows, an early studio building.
The Former Ueda Family Residence Inner Storehouse in Muko, Kyoto, is a small two-story kura from about 1910 with three plaster bands and a hidden floor strongroom.
The Former Ueda Family Residence Main House in Muko, Kyoto, is a 1910 farmhouse moved here in 1942, with a six-burner brick range and a refined tatami room.
The Former Ueda Family Residence Outer Storehouse in Muko, Kyoto, joins a two-story rice store and a single-story tool store under stepped roofs, built around 1910.
A Meiji-era wing 11.5 ken long closing the west side of the Ueno headman's compound in Maizuru, with a reception room at its north end and a deep eave.
An 1876 timber lookout in Kyoto's Higashiyama Ward, built to signal fires by bell and the hour by drum. The last surviving tower of the city's bangumi schools.
A brick pump house of 1912 beside the Lake Biwa Canal in Yamashina, built to raise firefighting water for the Kyoto Imperial Palace. Designated in 2025.
The Former Koyama Family Residence main house in Miyama is an early Meiji thatched farmhouse with an earthen work area and a formal alcove room. Registered 2008.
The 1893 storehouse of the Former Koyama Family Residence in Miyama has a tiled okiyane roof and plaster walls beside the thatched main house. Registered 2008.
The garden gate and cedar-bark fence of the Former Koyama Family Residence in Miyama enclose the garden before the main reception room. Registered in 2008.
An early Meiji machiya on Takatsuji-dori in Kyoto, once a dye merchant's house. Two winding staircases by Tango carpenters survive inside. Registered in 2014.
The smallest of three registered buildings at Namikawa Yasuyuki's Kyoto residence, this 18 square metre kiln house kept its shuttered windows and plastered ceiling.
The single-storey workshop where Namikawa Yasuyuki's wired cloisonne was made around 1902, its two small rooms lined with shelving and now open as a museum gallery.
Built in 1893 by enameller Namikawa Yasuyuki, this Kyoto townhouse pairs a classic machiya front with tall lintels and glazed verandas made for foreign buyers.