Meiji

Kenkun Shrine on Mount Funaoka honours Oda Nobunaga. Its 1880 Guest House, moved uphill in 1910, has a curved carriage porch and a balustraded veranda facing Higashiyama.

At Kenkun Shrine, the Ceremony Vessel Storehouse holds implements for its rites. Built in 1880 and moved in 1929, the plastered two-story dozo has its doorway upstairs.

At Kenkun Shrine, the Offering Hall is where food for the deity is prepared. Built in 1884 and moved in 1910, it has a cypress-bark roof, a kitchen and a tatami room.

At Kenkun Shrine, the Lattice Fence rings the sanctuary for 55 metres. Built in 1910, it sets a boarded wainscot below an open diamond lattice marking the sacred edge.

Behind a tall wall in central Kyoto, a 1909 takabei-zukuri residence blends shoin-style refinement with late-Meiji craft. Registered, restrained, still a working ryokan.

A 1909 two-story earthen storehouse at the rear of a Kyoto machiya in Shimogyō, the Toshiharu Dozō shows hongawara tile, deep eaves, and a black-plastered doorway.

A small early Meiji gatehouse in Muko City, Kyoto, facing the old Saigoku Kaido. Its north half holds a two-mat room with a projecting lattice window. Listed 2008.

In Muko City, Kyoto, an early Meiji annex and the inner gate continuing from its eave divide the Nakakoji estate's formal front from its private corner. Listed 2008.

A late Meiji merchant house on Muromachi-dori in Kyoto, built in omoya-zukuri with a courtyard dividing shop from home. Registered in 2007; still a private home.

This 23-square-metre Kyoto storehouse turns the long side of its gabled roof to the street, white lime plaster over a red-brown boarded base. Registered in 2007.

Discover the Nissha Main Building, a nationally registered tangible cultural property in Kyoto's Nakagyo Ward. Built in 1906 as a textile factory office, this elegant brick building features Corinthian columns, ornamental pressed-tin ceilings, and now houses the NISSHA Printing History Museum.

Discover Hanshoan, the historic tea room of the Hisada family in central Kyoto. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property dating back to the 17th century, this intimate tea room carries the legacy of Sen no Rikyu and the Omotesenke tradition.

West of Heian Jingu's west corridor, the East Saikiko is a two-story plaster storehouse first built in 1907 and relocated here in 1940, marked by board-clad lower walls.

Built around 1902, the detached guest rooms of the Hori Family Residence in Joyo, Kyoto show sukiya detailing: a bark-covered post, a fan-shaped wall opening.

The 1875 east storehouse of the Hori Family Residence in Joyo, Kyoto joins the main house by a covered passage, roofed in hongawara with trowelled lettering.

A Meiji-era sukiya residence beside Kumano Nyakuoji Shrine at the southern end of Kyoto's Philosopher's Path. Once home to Hara Sankei's head clerk, then to ethicist Watsuji Tetsuro and later philosopher Umehara Takeshi (d. 2019). Registered Tangible Cultural Property since 1998.

Built in 1900 and relocated by hikiya in 1971, this southeast storehouse in Kamigyo Ward, Kyoto was registered in 2007. Its white gable closes a street view.

Rakurakuso Nihonkan is railway magnate Tanaka Gentaro's 1898 shoin hall in Kameoka, with master and wife rooms showing peak Meiji carpentry above Ueji's pond garden.

The Rakurakuso Western-Style Building in Kameoka, Kyoto Prefecture, was completed around 1898 by Shimizu-gumi as the residence of industrialist and Kyoto Railway founder Tanaka Gentaro. This two-story brick mansion, listed as a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property, features distinctive verandas on its east and south façades and richly varied interiors where each room boasts a different fireplace and floor design — a rare and remarkably complete example of late-Meiji domestic architecture, surviving alongside its companion Japanese Hall, Entrance, and a celebrated stroll garden by Ogawa Jihei VII.

On Shinmachi-dōri south of Nishi Hongan-ji, this Meiji-era machiya pairs three lattice patterns on its façade with an inner courtyard. Registered in 2008.