Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Built in 1857 in Taga, Shiga, this two-storey farmhouse has a six-room plan, L-shaped reception rooms, a formal shikidai entry and black plaster walls. Reg. 2014.

A late Edo storehouse on the south side of the main house in Taga, Shiga: two names, one building, plaster carried up under the eaves, an okiyane roof. Reg. 2014.

An early Meiji storehouse in Taga, Shiga, joined to the main house and entered from its kuchiroka corridor. White sheet-iron walls, hachimaki band. Reg. 2014.

The Former Imazu Post Office in Takashima, Shiga, built in 1936, is a cottage-style building with an arched porch, stucco walls and well-preserved interior fittings.

A 2.4-square-meter well shelter from the 1920s in Nagahama, Shiga, open on all sides, with a well, a washing area and an old hook under the ridge beam.

An 1865 yakuimon gate at a doctor's home in Nagahama, Shiga, 2.6 meters wide and unusually deep, with board doors, strap fittings and carved beam ends.

Built in 1827 in Nagahama, Shiga, this doctor's house used its front rooms as a clinic, with a treatment bay linking to a 1920s wing. Registered in 2021.

A 1920s garage at a doctor's home in Nagahama, Shiga, with a hip-and-gable front, a lattice gable, a diagonal-barred glass transom and a plain gabled back.

A 1920s clinic wing in Nagahama, Shiga, keeping its reception counter and frosted glass in the exam room and dispensary, linking house and waiting room.

A late Edo earthen storehouse at a doctor's home in Nagahama, Shiga, with a separate fire roof on carved beam ends, white plaster walls and steel doors.

An early Meiji inpatient ward at a doctor's home in Nagahama, Shiga, with two six-mat rooms per floor and a curved ceiling and hanging alcove upstairs.

Built in 1868 as a retirement cottage in Nagahama, Shiga, and made a clinic waiting room in the 1920s, it keeps a formal room with a round window and bark post.

An early Showa inpatient ward in Nagahama, Shiga, with red bengara woodwork, one ten-mat room on each floor, an earthen passage and an upstairs toilet.

A 4.2-square-meter Showa-era toilet building in Nagahama, Shiga, with carved brackets, red checkerboard floor tiles and a different ceiling in each stall.

A late Meiji wall in Hikone linking two storehouses, 3.5 m high and 8.2 m long, with a one-ken doorway, a mokko-shaped window and eaves on timber arms.

The longest of four walls at a Hikone compound: 28 m of early Meiji timber and tile, with boards and white plaster outside and a plain earthen coat inside.

An early Meiji garden wall in Hikone, 9.7 m long: plastered and tiled to the north, a light yamato-bei fence with a wicket door and crossed transom to the south.

A late Meiji wall in Hikone, 3.3 m high and 21 m long, closing the gap between two main houses on the street front and lowering its ridge at the east boundary.

Former Shiga Bank Konan Branch in Koka, Shiga: a 1925 concrete bank on the Soma road with Ionic columns, a heavy entablature and an arched window over the door.

The Former Joki Clinic Stable in Maibara, Shiga, housed the horse a family of doctors used for house calls. Its hanging door has no threshold to trip a horse.

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