Edo

A late Edo gatehouse on the street in Kumihama, Kyotango: two full storeys, an upper floor jutting 1 shaku and udatsu firewalls give it a town-house look.

An 1858 storehouse behind the Imabayashi silk shop in Miyazu, plastered with a boarded base, where a chirimen loom is said to have run in early Meiji. Listed 2009.

The late Edo shop where the Imabayashi family sold raw silk in Miyazu: an exposed-post front with twin firewalls and a projecting lattice, registered in 2009.

The 1800 Ema Hall at Imamiya Shrine in Kyoto is an open six-bay hall, the largest registered building on site, its beams hung with votive plaques from worshippers.

Joined to the Noh stage at the Imamiya Shrine Otabisho in Kyoto, the Kagami-no-ma is a late Edo dressing room with a small window for watching the bridgeway.

Rebuilt in 1795 at the Imamiya Shrine Otabisho in Kyoto's Kamigyo Ward, the Gondensha is the sanctuary where the deities stay during the Imamiya Festival in May.

Rebuilt in 1795 at the Imamiya Shrine Otabisho in Kyoto, this early Noh stage keeps its pine-and-bamboo back panel, chorus seat and bridgeway to the dressing room.

The Imamiya Shrine Kagura Hall in Kyoto, built in 1839, puts a small sanctum and a dance room under one copper roof and links them to the main hall by a passage.

Built in the late Edo period as Imamiya Shrine's mikoshi house and moved in 1926 to the north-east corner, this Kyoto storehouse has a big carved strut in its gable.

The 1842 worship pavilion and fence of Jishusha at Imamiya Shrine in Kyoto draw a sacred boundary through the pavilion's centre with lattice doors and extend it.

Built in 1842 on a rise at Imamiya Shrine in Kyoto, the Jishusha Main Hall is a rare two-bay shrine whose veranda rests on bracketing usually seen on gate towers.

The Taishogunsha at Imamiya Shrine in Kyoto, built around 1695, joins a tiny sanctuary to its worship pavilion with a shelf and three wooden steps, a rare layout.

Built in 1694 near the Tower Gate of Imamiya Shrine in Kyoto, the small Temizuya Pavilion faces the East Gate path and carries two tiers of richly carved struts.

Built in 1694 during Keishoin's rebuilding, the open-sided Imamiya Shrine Worship Hall in Kyoto survived the 1896 fire and still anchors the axis of the shrine.

The late Edo Hachimansha at Imamiya Shrine in Kyoto covers just 0.9 square metres, yet splits its sanctum with an open front room and carries finely worked brackets.

Built around 1694 at Imamiya Shrine in Kyoto, the Hassha gathers eight auxiliary shrines into one eight-bay building, a record of the Genroku-era reorganisation.

At the south end of the small-shrine row at Imamiya Shrine in Kyoto, the late Edo Hiyoshisha splits its tiny sanctum into two rooms and dresses its canopy richly.

Built around 1694 in a corner of Imamiya Shrine in Kyoto, the small Munakatasha stands on a stone base carved with a catfish and packs in varied bracketing.

The 1694 Wakamiyasha Worship Hall at Imamiya Shrine in Kyoto is a one-bay open pavilion with a coffered ceiling, a small echo of the shrine's main worship hall.

Built in 1694, the Imamiya Shrine Wakamiyasha Main Hall in Kyoto, a shrine for the blessing of children, joins two Kasuga-style roofs with ridges linked in an H.