Meiji
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Kenkun Shrine Lattice Fence, built in 1910 when the shrine moved up Kyoto's Mount Funaoka, encloses the main hall for 55 m with diamond lattice and cross-braces.
Kenkun Shrine Chozusha is a 4.2 m² purification pavilion of 1880 on Kyoto's Mount Funaoka, moved uphill in 1922, with diamond-lattice transoms and a stone basin.
Kenkun Shrine Norito Hall, called the inner gate by the shrine, is a 7.1 m² hall of 1880 before Nobunaga's Kyoto sanctuary, with round posts and a swelling roof.
Kenkun Shrine Worship Hall on Kyoto's Mount Funaoka is an open-sided 1880 hall with upswept cypress-bark eaves, a coffered ceiling and Nobunaga retainer portraits.
Kenkun Shrine Main Hall, a 5.1 m² nagare-zukuri sanctuary for Oda Nobunaga on Kyoto's Mount Funaoka, was built in 1880, moved uphill in 1910 and registered in 2008.
Kenkun Shrine Corridor links the main hall and norito hall of Nobunaga's Kyoto shrine: a 6.0 m² passage of 1880 with a copper roof, flared ridge post and stone path.
Tofukuji Temple Onshimon Gate, a cypress-bark karamon of 1909 given by Empress Shoken and designed by Kameoka Suekichi, bears chrysanthemum crests and fine openwork.
Tofukuji Temple Priests' Quarters (1910) is the Zen kitchen and office hall of Tofukuji in Kyoto, with a huge gable, a copper karahafu porch and a central corridor.
Tofukuji Temple Hojo, built in 1890 after the fire of 1881, is a 16-bay abbot's hall whose railed verandas frame Shigemori Mirei's 1939 gardens on all sides.
Behind a tall wall in central Kyoto, a 1909 takabei-zukuri residence blends shoin-style refinement with late-Meiji craft. Registered, restrained, still a working ryokan.
A 1909 two-story earthen storehouse at the rear of a Kyoto machiya in Shimogyō, the Toshiharu Dozō shows hongawara tile, deep eaves, and a black-plastered doorway.
Tondaya Front Storehouse is an early Meiji earthen storehouse on a Nishijin street corner, with no street-side door and a board-clad lower wall, seen from outside.
Tondaya Main House is a large omoteya-zukuri townhouse built around 1885 for a Nishijin kimono wholesaler, with gold-dusted transoms, seen on reserved tours.
Tondaya Middle Storehouse is a small two-storey Meiji earthen storehouse in a Nishijin merchant house, linked by a veranda, with a plaster relief over its door.
A small early Meiji gatehouse in Muko City, Kyoto, facing the old Saigoku Kaido. Its north half holds a two-mat room with a projecting lattice window. Listed 2008.
In Muko City, Kyoto, an early Meiji annex and the inner gate continuing from its eave divide the Nakakoji estate's formal front from its private corner. Listed 2008.
A late Meiji merchant house on Muromachi-dori in Kyoto, built in omoya-zukuri with a courtyard dividing shop from home. Registered in 2007; still a private home.
This 23-square-metre Kyoto storehouse turns the long side of its gabled roof to the street, white lime plaster over a red-brown boarded base. Registered in 2007.
Brick office building of 1906 in Kyoto, built for the Kyoto Flannel Company and later Nissha Printing's head office, with a mansard roof and Corinthian porch.
Ninnaji Temple Grand Entrance, rebuilt in 1890 after the 1887 fire, pairs a tiled hall with a carved cypress-bark carriage porch. Features, access and goshuin.