Meiji
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An early Meiji two-story storehouse at the back of a Nishijin townhouse garden in Kyoto, 3.4 m square, with white plaster walls and black plaster accents.
The Heian Jogakuin Arisukan Main House, moved beside the Kyoto Imperial Park in 1891, keeps a raised jodan-no-ma, courtyard wings and Ogawa Jihei XI gardens; closed.
The Heian Jogakuin Arisukan Seitenmon Gate is a 1912 copper-roofed karamon on Karasuma-dori with paired curved rafters, single-plank keyaki doors and white walls.
The Heian Jogakuin Arisukan Nagayamon Gate is a late Meiji gatehouse on Shimodachiuri-dori, its white plaster and lattice window facing a brick church.
The Heian Jogakuin Meijikan, an 1895 brick school by A. N. Hansell, is among Japan's earliest Queen Anne Revival buildings, with Dutch gables and white bands.
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.
Matsumoto Sake Brewery Brick Chimney in Fushimi, Kyoto: an 18-metre late-Meiji smokestack of English-bond brick on an octagon, braced in steel along its full height.
Matsumoto Sake Brewery Brick Warehouse in Fushimi, Kyoto: a late-Meiji brick store inherited from a drug factory, with round-windowed parapets and segmental arches.
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.
A c.1881 sukiya house at the Mushakoji Senke tea school in Kyoto, wrapping three tea rooms and a shrine to Sen no Rikyu around its living rooms. Registered 2004.
A c.1881 white-plastered storehouse at the Mushakoji Senke tea school in Kyoto, with a tiled gable roof, three layered doors and two round windows. Registered 2004.
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.
Between the Raku family's main house and main storehouse in Kyoto: a two-storey earthen store with stepped, fire-tight doors and a 6-mat anteroom. Registered 2007.
The Raku potters' gate on Aburanokoji Street, Kyoto: 4.5 metres of sliding lattice doors and wainscoted earthen walls under a tiled gable. Registered 2007.
Behind the Raku family's Kyoto home, a small clay-lined shed holds the wood-fired red Raku kiln and the black Raku kiln, both registered in 2007 with the building.
Beside the Raku potters' gate in Kyoto, a 4.6 square metre shelter where tea guests wait: a bench inside, a lattice window to the street, a privy. Registered 2007.
The two-storey heart of the Raku potters' home in Kyoto: 11 by 7 bays, a plain townhouse front hiding sukiya-style rooms. Registered in 2007; interior is private.
In the far corner of the Raku potters' compound in Kyoto, a slate-roofed shed on brick footings where tea-bowl clay is stored and pounded. Registered 2007; private.