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京都府 · Art & museums

Kenninji

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Kyoto's oldest Zen temple, where Sotatsu's Wind and Thunder Gods were kept; twin dragons cover its lecture hall ceiling.

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Tofukuji Hojo Garden

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Shigemori Mirei laid gardens on all four sides; the checkerboard of moss and stone brought modern design into the dry garden.

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Nanzenji and the Aqueduct

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A brick aqueduct runs through a Zen precinct - built after long argument, its design adjusted to sit with the temple.

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Nishi Honganji

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The height of Momoyama building; its gate is nicknamed the sunset gate, because one loses the day looking at the carvings.

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Chionin

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Its 24-metre gate is among the largest wooden gates standing; the slope forces you to look up before you reach the hall.

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Daigoji

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Its 951 pagoda is the oldest building in Kyoto prefecture, and Hideyoshi is said to have designed the garden himself.

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Ninnaji

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Its main hall is the emperor's former audience hall, moved here - a palace turned into a temple.

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Tenryuji Sogenchi Garden

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Laid out by Muso Soseki and barely altered in 700 years, taking the mountains behind it into the garden itself.

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Saihoji

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Moss of 120 species covers the ground - not by design, but because the garden fell into ruin and the moss took it.

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Katsura Imperial Villa

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Three pavilions set diagonally so every room sees a different garden; Bruno Taut's account of it changed how the world read Japanese architecture.

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Shugakuin Imperial Villa

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Three gardens up a hillside with working farmland kept between them, and a tea house at the top open to the whole basin.

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Kyoto Imperial Palace

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Rebuilt in the 1850s but researched back to Heian precedent, down to the subjects of its wall paintings.

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Taian Tea House

大山崎町山城

The only tea room reliably by Sen no Rikyu: two mats, and the first entrance so low that everyone must stoop.

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Asahi Group Oyamazaki Villa Museum

大山崎町山城

Tadao Ando buried a concrete cylinder beside a Taisho English villa; Monet's water lilies hang inside the circle.

京都府 · Art & museums

Byodoin Phoenix Hall

宇治市山城

Designed with its own reflection in mind; Jocho's joined-block carving inside settled the technique of Japanese sculpture.

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Byodoin Museum Hoshokan

宇治市山城

Buried almost entirely underground so as not to disturb the Phoenix Hall's setting, with the bodhisattvas seeming to float off the wall.

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Ujigami Shrine

宇治市山城

The oldest surviving shrine sanctuary in Japan, its three inner halls sheltered under one Heian-period roof.

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Joruriji

木津川市山城

The only place where nine Amida figures still stand in a row as intended, with pagoda and hall facing across a pond.

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Iwafunedera and the Stone Buddhas of Tono

木津川市山城

Kamakura-period Buddhas carved into roadside rock; the walk from temple to temple is itself the gallery.

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Ikkyuji

京田辺市山城

Where the monk Ikkyu spent his last years; its gardens on three sides stand their stones with unusual boldness.

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Iwashimizu Hachimangu

八幡市山城

The finished form of the hachiman style, two halls joined front to back, with a gilded gutter Nobunaga gave spanning the valley between.

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Sumiya Museum

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The only surviving ageya of the Shimabara quarter, with a ceiling papered in fans and a room inlaid with shell.

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Gion Festival Floats

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Called a moving museum: Persian and Flemish textiles imported in the 1500s still hang on the floats every July.

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Garden of Fine Arts Kyoto

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Masterpieces fired onto ceramic panels and set outdoors; Ando's ramps make you look down on some and up at others.