Edo

The Amida hall of Nishi Honganji, Kyoto, rebuilt in 1760 and a National Treasure since 2014, the perfected form of the Shin main hall and a model for others.

A 1657 National Treasure at Nishi Honganji, Kyoto: a private shoin with bark-edged posts, carved shelves, a six-mat tea room and a double corridor to the Shiroshoin.

An early Edo building at Nishi Honganji in Kyoto, designated in 1904: an entrance and three rooms, Nami, Tora and Taiko, recorded as one building with a bark roof.

The Goeido of Nishi Honganji, Kyoto, raised in 1636 and a National Treasure since 2014, one of the largest Edo buildings and the summit of Shin main halls.

The early Edo shoin of Nishi Honganji, Kyoto, a National Treasure since 1952, with a 162-mat audience hall and one of the largest shoin-style buildings.

Built in 1856, this two-story hall at Kyoto's Mibu-dera holds an upper stage made for the silent masked Mibu Kyogen, with a jump-in where demons vanish from sight.

Myohoin's 1619 Daishoin in Kyoto, said to be a former palace building of Empress Tofukumon-in and decorated by the Kano school. Open only for special viewings.

Myohoin's 1619 entrance hall in Kyoto, built with the Daishoin as the formal reception entrance of a princely temple and painted by the Kano school. Usually closed.

House of 1825 of the headmen of Kokura village, Maizuru, Kyoto, a fine late Edo Tango house with clay-coated rafters, bold curved beams and a bamboo ceiling.

Founded in 1594 and rebuilt in 1621, Yogen-in keeps Fushimi Castle floorboards overhead and Sotatsu's painted cedar doors. Four of its buildings were listed in 2016.

The Yoshiminedera Temple Tahoto Pagoda in western Kyoto, dated 1621 by its ridge tag, is a small, slender, graceful pagoda with a bark roof. Designated in 1977.

The early Edo shoin of Ryokoin at Daitokuji, Kyoto, a National Treasure since 1961, containing the Mittan tea room said to reflect Kobori Enshu's taste.

Once the main hall of Amino Shrine, this 1782 building is the oldest here. Reborn in 1925 as Koori Shrine, its cypress-bark hall carries lavish Edo-period carving.

Built in 1807 at Shichiku in northern Kyoto, the Araki Family Residence main house keeps its roof monitor, earth-floored passage and street-facing front garden.

Behind the Araki Family Residence in northern Kyoto stands a late Edo storehouse of sixteen square metres, its roof set on posts that carry purlins without beams.

Anrakuji's Shoin, a late-Edo hall registered in 2003, faces a clipped-azalea dry garden with the Higashiyama hills as borrowed scenery near the Philosopher's Path.

The Main Hall of Anrakuji, just east of Kyoto's Philosopher's Path, is a Late Edo-period Pure Land hall registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2003. Built to memorialize the priests Junren and Anraku, it is open only during seasonal cherry-blossom, azalea, and autumn-foliage viewings.

Izumo Daijingu's stone torii in Kameoka, Kyoto: a granite gateway of 1718 donated by parishioners, 4.8 meters wide, each lintel cut from a single stone.

Izumo Daijingu's Kami-no-Yashiro in Kameoka, Kyoto: an 1813 one-bay sanctuary on Mount Mikage copying the main hall's plan at small scale, with a porch.

The smaller, older of the two Inaba storehouses in Kumihama, Kyotango: a late Edo earthen store that old drawings show was moved when the main house was built.