Edo
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The 1694 gate and openwork fence of Wakamiyasha at Imamiya Shrine in Kyoto enclose the sanctuary with a stepped tiled gate roof and 26 metres of diamond lattice.
Late Edo town house of the Ogawa Bunsai potters on Gojozaka, Kyoto, with a projecting-beam front, two kinds of upper lattice and an alcoved room behind.
Small late Edo storehouse at the Ogawa Bunsai potters' house on Gojozaka, Kyoto, two bays square and carefully plastered, adding charm to the back garden.
Facing the Tanba Kaido in Nagaokakyo, this late Edo farmhouse is 13 m wide, with deep lean-to eaves on three sides and an altar room and reception room to the north.
Around the garden of the Kawai estate in Nagaokakyo, a late Edo earthen wall of 10 m on piled stones, plastered white and tiled, is kept low to save a far hill view.
In a corner of the Kawai estate in Nagaokakyo, this late Edo storehouse of 4.9 by 3.9 m has a separate okiyane roof, lime plaster and tall boarding on its west wall.
A late Edo horse stable at the front of the Ueno headman's compound in Maizuru, built in clay like a storehouse, with board-clad walls and small gable windows.
A thatched hip-and-gable farmhouse of the 1830s in Maizuru, ringed by tiled pent roofs, with a formal shikidai entrance and a projecting guest room for officials.
A tiny late Edo household shrine of the Ueno family in Maizuru, set in a shelter, with a carved dragon on its porch beam, lion and baku beam ends and openwork doors.
A two-storey late Edo storehouse in Maizuru, the largest of the Ueno family's three, split into a rice store and a miso store, each reached by its own south door.
The smallest of the Ueno family's three storehouses in Maizuru: a two-storey late Edo kura on a cut-stone base, with a fire-stopping band under the eaves.
A 44-metre tiled wall around the Ueno headman's compound and garden in Maizuru, built in the late Edo period, extended in Taisho, faced in board, bamboo and plaster.
Built in 1703 as the entrance to a Kyoto monzeki residence, this Edo-period yakui-mon gate now welcomes guests at Hotel The Mitsui Kyoto, opposite Nijō Castle.
A late Edo townhouse on Kameoka's castle-town street, with projecting lattice and plastered attic windows. Registered 2025; now a cafe and information centre.
A 1928 reinforced concrete bank in Fukuchiyama, registered in 2025. Its symmetrical front turns on a chamfered corner; today it sells Tanba azuki sweets.
The Tenmei Storehouse of the Kinshi Masamune Horino Memorial Museum in Kyoto is a sake store built before 1864, with an old-style central post under its ridge.
The document storehouse of the Kinshi Masamune Horino Memorial Museum in Kyoto is a low storehouse of 1820 behind the Momo-no-i well, dated by its ridge tag.
The main two-storey gate of Kōshō-ji on Kyoto's Horikawa-dōri. Built around 1915, this three-bay tower gate is known for its peony carving and was registered in 2025.
Built in 1918, the Takarōka is the covered corridor linking Kōshō-ji's two great halls. Its cusped-gable roof and fine joinery were registered in 2025.
Thatched music hall in Nantan, Kyoto, a Fukui temple hall of 1784 moved here in 1989, keeping its size and columns; concerts are held each spring and autumn.