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Subject matter and ceiling height change with each room's rank, and every painting is composed for the shogun's own seat.
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Ryoanji Rock Garden
Fifteen stones on 75 square metres of gravel, placed so that from any viewpoint one is always hidden.
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Daitokuji Sub-temples
Twenty sub-temples bound up with the tea ceremony; many National Treasure tea rooms and dry gardens are still kept closed to the public.
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Tofukuji Hojo Garden
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
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
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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Tenryuji Sogenchi Garden
Laid out by Muso Soseki and barely altered in 700 years, taking the mountains behind it into the garden itself.
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Katsura Imperial Villa
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
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
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
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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Byodoin Phoenix Hall
Designed with its own reflection in mind; Jocho's joined-block carving inside settled the technique of Japanese sculpture.
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Ujigami Shrine
The oldest surviving shrine sanctuary in Japan, its three inner halls sheltered under one Heian-period roof.
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Iwashimizu Hachimangu
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
The only surviving ageya of the Shimabara quarter, with a ceiling papered in fans and a room inlaid with shell.