Meiji
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A Meiji-era wing 11.5 ken long closing the west side of the Ueno headman's compound in Maizuru, with a reception room at its north end and a deep eave.
An 1876 timber lookout in Kyoto's Higashiyama Ward, built to signal fires by bell and the hour by drum. The last surviving tower of the city's bangumi schools.
A brick pump house of 1912 beside the Lake Biwa Canal in Yamashina, built to raise firefighting water for the Kyoto Imperial Palace. Designated in 2025.
The Former Koyama Family Residence main house in Miyama is an early Meiji thatched farmhouse with an earthen work area and a formal alcove room. Registered 2008.
The 1893 storehouse of the Former Koyama Family Residence in Miyama has a tiled okiyane roof and plaster walls beside the thatched main house. Registered 2008.
The garden gate and cedar-bark fence of the Former Koyama Family Residence in Miyama enclose the garden before the main reception room. Registered in 2008.
An early Meiji machiya on Takatsuji-dori in Kyoto, once a dye merchant's house. Two winding staircases by Tango carpenters survive inside. Registered in 2014.
The smallest of three registered buildings at Namikawa Yasuyuki's Kyoto residence, this 18 square metre kiln house kept its shuttered windows and plastered ceiling.
The single-storey workshop where Namikawa Yasuyuki's wired cloisonne was made around 1902, its two small rooms lined with shelving and now open as a museum gallery.
Built in 1893 by enameller Namikawa Yasuyuki, this Kyoto townhouse pairs a classic machiya front with tall lintels and glazed verandas made for foreign buyers.
Navy residence of 1902 in Maizuru, Kyoto, a senior Class B house built to standard naval specifications, with guest rooms and living quarters clearly divided.
The east gate of the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art is a granite gate of the late Meiji era, built for the Kyoto Commercial Exhibition Hall, with Ionic-style scrolls.
The Sonjodo on the Kyoto University campus, a stuccoed brick hall of 1903 with an iron porch, keeps the legacy of Yoshida Shoin gathered by Shinagawa Yajiro.
The main house of the Kinshi Masamune Horino Memorial Museum in Kyoto is a large Meiji town house with a black-plastered front and sukiya-style rooms.
The Sato Family Residence Main House in Nagaokakyo is an early Meiji farmhouse of 196 square metres with a 9-room grid plan and formal shoin rooms. Private home.
The Sato Family Residence New Storehouse in Nagaokakyo is a 2-storey kura of 1910, the estate's smallest at 12 square metres, with a covered doorstep.
The Sato Family Residence Roji Gate and Garden Wall in Nagaokakyo is an early Meiji gate and wall splitting the forecourt from the formal garden. Not open.
Kenkun Shrine Guest House is a tiled 1880 reception hall moved up Kyoto's Mount Funaoka in 1910, with a curved carriage porch and railed verandas facing east.
Kenkun Shrine Ceremony Vessel Storehouse is a two-storey earthen store of 1880, moved in 1929, with a placed tiled roof and an upstairs door suited to the site.
Kenkun Shrine Offering Hall, built in 1884 and moved uphill in 1910, is a cypress-bark hall facing Nobunaga's sanctuary, with kitchen, board room and tatami room.