Meiji
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Navy residence of 1902 in Maizuru, Kyoto, a senior Class B house built to standard naval specifications, with guest rooms and living quarters clearly divided.
The east gate of the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art is a granite gate of the late Meiji era, built for the Kyoto Commercial Exhibition Hall, with Ionic-style scrolls.
The Sonjodo on the Kyoto University campus, a stuccoed brick hall of 1903 with an iron porch, keeps the legacy of Yoshida Shoin gathered by Shinagawa Yajiro.
The main house of the Kinshi Masamune Horino Memorial Museum in Kyoto is a large Meiji town house with a black-plastered front and sukiya-style rooms.
The Sato Family Residence Main House in Nagaokakyo is an early Meiji farmhouse of 196 square metres with a 9-room grid plan and formal shoin rooms. Private home.
The Sato Family Residence New Storehouse in Nagaokakyo is a 2-storey kura of 1910, the estate's smallest at 12 square metres, with a covered doorstep.
The Sato Family Residence Roji Gate and Garden Wall in Nagaokakyo is an early Meiji gate and wall splitting the forecourt from the formal garden. Not open.
The Senzai Family Residence Old Storehouse in Fushimi, Kyoto, is an early Meiji plastered storehouse raised on a stone base built against river floods.
The Senzai Family Residence Main House in Fushimi, Kyoto, is a large merchant townhouse of 1869 with a lattice and plank front and a deep earthen passage.
Kenkun Shrine Guest House is a tiled 1880 reception hall moved up Kyoto's Mount Funaoka in 1910, with a curved carriage porch and railed verandas facing east.
Kenkun Shrine Ceremony Vessel Storehouse is a two-storey earthen store of 1880, moved in 1929, with a placed tiled roof and an upstairs door suited to the site.
Kenkun Shrine Offering Hall, built in 1884 and moved uphill in 1910, is a cypress-bark hall facing Nobunaga's sanctuary, with kitchen, board room and tatami room.
Kenkun Shrine Lattice Fence, built in 1910 when the shrine moved up Kyoto's Mount Funaoka, encloses the main hall for 55 m with diamond lattice and cross-braces.
Kenkun Shrine Chozusha is a 4.2 m² purification pavilion of 1880 on Kyoto's Mount Funaoka, moved uphill in 1922, with diamond-lattice transoms and a stone basin.
Kenkun Shrine Norito Hall, called the inner gate by the shrine, is a 7.1 m² hall of 1880 before Nobunaga's Kyoto sanctuary, with round posts and a swelling roof.
Kenkun Shrine Worship Hall on Kyoto's Mount Funaoka is an open-sided 1880 hall with upswept cypress-bark eaves, a coffered ceiling and Nobunaga retainer portraits.
Kenkun Shrine Main Hall, a 5.1 m² nagare-zukuri sanctuary for Oda Nobunaga on Kyoto's Mount Funaoka, was built in 1880, moved uphill in 1910 and registered in 2008.
Kenkun Shrine Corridor links the main hall and norito hall of Nobunaga's Kyoto shrine: a 6.0 m² passage of 1880 with a copper roof, flared ridge post and stone path.
Tofukuji Temple Onshimon Gate, a cypress-bark karamon of 1909 given by Empress Shoken and designed by Kameoka Suekichi, bears chrysanthemum crests and fine openwork.
Tofukuji Temple Priests' Quarters (1910) is the Zen kitchen and office hall of Tofukuji in Kyoto, with a huge gable, a copper karahafu porch and a central corridor.