Edo

Built in 1829 and registered in 2021, the main hall of Shinkō-in anchors one of Kyoto's three Kōbō Daishi pilgrimage temples in the quiet Nishi-Kamo district north of the city.

Set in the quiet Nishigamo neighborhood of Kyoto's Kita Ward, Jinkō-in Rengetsu-an is the small wooden hermitage where the celebrated late-Edo / early-Meiji poet, nun, and ceramic artist Ōtagaki Rengetsu (1791–1875) spent the final ten years of her life, from age 76 until her death at 85. Built in the late Edo period, this 51-square-meter cottage incorporates refined sukiya-style touches such as a soot-darkened bamboo lattice ceiling and a round window. Registered as a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan in 2021, it offers a deeply moving glimpse into the world of one of Japan's most beloved female poets, famed for her hand-formed Rengetsu-yaki ceramics inscribed with her own waka poems.

Front gate of Daishoji, an imperial convent in Kyoto: a large late Edo yakuimon, moved in 1922, with a tiled gable roof befitting the leading imperial convent.

Late Edo earthen wall on the south side of Daishoji, an imperial convent in Kyoto: 66 metres long, tiled and striped, with a small gate for the "impure" in the west.

Late Edo palace hall at Daishoji, an imperial convent in Kyoto: a formal west wing of four rooms and a sukiya-style east wing, the residence of princess-abbesses.

The Main House of the Nakano Family Residence in Nagaokakyo, Kyoto, is a late Edo dwelling registered in 2010. It now serves meals and coffee as Nakanotei.

The Storehouse of the Nakano Family Residence in Nagaokakyo, Kyoto, is a late Edo earthen-walled dozo of just 25 square metres, registered nationally in 2010.

The Kyoto home of the Nakamura family, lacquerers to the Sen tea schools, dates from 1854 and was built by a sukiya master carpenter. Registered 2003; closed.

The late Edo northwest storehouse of the Hori Family Residence in Joyo, Kyoto runs 9.9 metres on a cut-stone base, its plastered street wall boarded below.

The 1859 main house of the Hori Family Residence in Joyo, Kyoto keeps an upper-tier farmhouse plan: an earth-floored west half, six rooms east, a formal entry step.

The late Edo long gatehouse of the Hori Family Residence in Joyo, Kyoto has a room with a projecting lattice window, board doors and a small wicket beside them.

Matsumoto Sake Brewery Main Gate in Fushimi, Kyoto: an early Edo four-legged gate said to come from Shoden-in at Kennin-ji, with Zen-style posts and plant carving.

A late Edo structure of 4.0 square metres at Muko Shrine in Kyoto, with its basin and well, framed asymmetrically so that worshippers can reach the water freely.

Built in 1842 at Muko Shrine in Kyoto, this 277 sq m structure joins a main hall shelter, offering hall and worship hall. Dragon carving fills its front canopy.

At just 0.55 square metres, this tiny one-bay hall at Muko Shrine in Kyoto was moved from a nearby village in 1878 and carries dense cloud carving on its gable.

A late Edo hall at Muko Shrine in Kyoto, three bays by one under a gabled roof, its interior divided into five compartments, one for each of the shrines enshrined.

A mid-Edo one-bay hall of the raised-shelf type at Muko Shrine in Kyoto, moved from a nearby village in 1877 and sheltered beneath its own covering roof.

Dated 1688, this is the earliest listed building at Muko Shrine in Kyoto. Built first as a prayer hall, it keeps an unusual two-and-a-half-bay plan and plain walls.

A late Edo covered walkway at Muko Shrine in Kyoto, running some 10 metres between the worship hall and the Soreisha, its southern end stepped down to a lower roof.

Built in 1833 at Muko Shrine in Kyoto, this hall sets a gable-end canopy against a gabled body and roofs its three-part sanctuary as a building within a building.