Meiji

Tofukuji Temple Hojo, built in 1890 after the fire of 1881, is a 16-bay abbot's hall whose railed verandas frame Shigemori Mirei's 1939 gardens on all sides.

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.

Tondaya Front Storehouse is an early Meiji earthen storehouse on a Nishijin street corner, with no street-side door and a board-clad lower wall, seen from outside.

Tondaya Main House is a large omoteya-zukuri townhouse built around 1885 for a Nishijin kimono wholesaler, with gold-dusted transoms, seen on reserved tours.

Tondaya Middle Storehouse is a small two-storey Meiji earthen storehouse in a Nishijin merchant house, linked by a veranda, with a plaster relief over its door.

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.

Brick office building of 1906 in Kyoto, built for the Kyoto Flannel Company and later Nissha Printing's head office, with a mansard roof and Corinthian porch.

Ninnaji Temple Grand Entrance, rebuilt in 1890 after the 1887 fire, pairs a tiled hall with a carved cypress-bark carriage porch. Features, access and goshuin.

Ninnaji Temple Black Study Hall, a relocated abbot's hall remodeled around 1910, with slatted mairado doors and 1937 panels by Domoto Insho. Plan and visiting.

Ninnaji Temple White Study Hall served as a temporary Shinden from 1890. Six rooms, bamboo-node transoms, Fukunaga Seihan pines, 2026 restoration and visiting tips.

Ninnaji Temple Reimeiden Hall, a 1911 pyramidal-roofed hall by Kameoka Suekichi, houses a hidden Yakushi statue and abbots' tablets. Design, details and visiting.

Built in 1904 when Yamanaka & Co. opened its Kyoto branch, this single-story display hall faces Jingu-michi with bracket blocks, diamond lattice and reused carvings.

The Hisada Family Hanshoan Tea House in Kyoto (1886) holds a seven-mat room and Hanshoan, a small tea room with a board inset in Sozen's style. Registered 2013.

An 1876 home of rice merchants and village headmen on the Katsura River in Fushimi, Kyoto: a six-room plan with a wide earthen floor and a lower guest wing. Private.

A Nishijin weaver's townhouse in Kyoto: an early Meiji east wing and a 1930s west wing with an Art Deco parlor, an 8 m light well and contrasting tatami rooms.

An 1876 storehouse on a former rice merchant's estate once open to the Katsura River in Fushimi, Kyoto: board-clad walls, a gable front and just two small windows.