Meiji
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Ninnaji Temple Black Study Hall, a relocated abbot's hall remodeled around 1910, with slatted mairado doors and 1937 panels by Domoto Insho. Plan and visiting.
Ninnaji Temple White Study Hall served as a temporary Shinden from 1890. Six rooms, bamboo-node transoms, Fukunaga Seihan pines, 2026 restoration and visiting tips.
Ninnaji Temple Reimeiden Hall, a 1911 pyramidal-roofed hall by Kameoka Suekichi, houses a hidden Yakushi statue and abbots' tablets. Design, details and visiting.
Built in 1904 when Yamanaka & Co. opened its Kyoto branch, this single-story display hall faces Jingu-michi with bracket blocks, diamond lattice and reused carvings.
The Hisada Family Hanshoan Tea House in Kyoto (1886) holds a seven-mat room and Hanshoan, a small tea room with a board inset in Sozen's style. Registered 2013.
An 1876 home of rice merchants and village headmen on the Katsura River in Fushimi, Kyoto: a six-room plan with a wide earthen floor and a lower guest wing. Private.
A Nishijin weaver's townhouse in Kyoto: an early Meiji east wing and a 1930s west wing with an Art Deco parlor, an 8 m light well and contrasting tatami rooms.
An 1876 storehouse on a former rice merchant's estate once open to the Katsura River in Fushimi, Kyoto: board-clad walls, a gable front and just two small windows.
An early Meiji two-story storehouse at the back of a Nishijin townhouse garden in Kyoto, 3.4 m square, with white plaster walls and black plaster accents.
The Heian Jogakuin Arisukan Main House, moved beside the Kyoto Imperial Park in 1891, keeps a raised jodan-no-ma, courtyard wings and Ogawa Jihei XI gardens; closed.
The Heian Jogakuin Arisukan Seitenmon Gate is a 1912 copper-roofed karamon on Karasuma-dori with paired curved rafters, single-plank keyaki doors and white walls.
The Heian Jogakuin Arisukan Nagayamon Gate is a late Meiji gatehouse on Shimodachiuri-dori, its white plaster and lattice window facing a brick church.
The Heian Jogakuin Meijikan, an 1895 brick school by A. N. Hansell, is among Japan's earliest Queen Anne Revival buildings, with Dutch gables and white bands.
West of Heian Jingu's west corridor, the East Saikiko is a two-story plaster storehouse first built in 1907 and relocated here in 1940, marked by board-clad lower walls.
Built around 1902, the detached guest rooms of the Hori Family Residence in Joyo, Kyoto show sukiya detailing: a bark-covered post, a fan-shaped wall opening.
The 1875 east storehouse of the Hori Family Residence in Joyo, Kyoto joins the main house by a covered passage, roofed in hongawara with trowelled lettering.
Matsumoto Sake Brewery Brick Chimney in Fushimi, Kyoto: an 18-metre late-Meiji smokestack of English-bond brick on an octagon, braced in steel along its full height.
Matsumoto Sake Brewery Brick Warehouse in Fushimi, Kyoto: a late-Meiji brick store inherited from a drug factory, with round-windowed parapets and segmental arches.
A Meiji-era sukiya residence beside Kumano Nyakuoji Shrine at the southern end of Kyoto's Philosopher's Path. Once home to Hara Sankei's head clerk, then to ethicist Watsuji Tetsuro and later philosopher Umehara Takeshi (d. 2019). Registered Tangible Cultural Property since 1998.
A c.1881 sukiya house at the Mushakoji Senke tea school in Kyoto, wrapping three tea rooms and a shrine to Sen no Rikyu around its living rooms. Registered 2004.