Kyoto National Museum
The central repository for what Kyoto's temples and shrines have handed down, in Katayama's French Baroque halls.
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The central repository for what Kyoto's temples and shrines have handed down, in Katayama's French Baroque halls.
Japan's oldest surviving public art museum building, updated by digging the ground away and sliding a glass entrance beneath it.
Treats craft as the equal of fine art; Fumihiko Maki's building sits quietly between a canal and a giant torii.
Three generations of collecting Rinpa and Jakuchu, in a building that descends underground away from the street.
Holds what Shokokuji and its sub-temples Kinkakuji and Ginkakuji kept, including Jakuchu's ink panels for the Golden Pavilion.
Its annex is Tatsuno's former Bank of Japan branch, red brick banded in white stone, still on Sanjo street.
A narrow Gion building used vertically, with a light court on the top floor as the only place the sky appears.
Subject matter and ceiling height change with each room's rank, and every painting is composed for the shogun's own seat.
Twenty sub-temples bound up with the tea ceremony; many National Treasure tea rooms and dry gardens are still kept closed to the public.
The height of Momoyama building; its gate is nicknamed the sunset gate, because one loses the day looking at the carvings.
Rebuilt in the 1850s but researched back to Heian precedent, down to the subjects of its wall paintings.
The only surviving ageya of the Shimabara quarter, with a ceiling papered in fans and a room inlaid with shell.