Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Guseiji Temple Bell Tower in Higashiomi, Shiga, is a one-bay belfry of 1660, open on all four sides on a stone podium and registered as a cultural property in 2007.

Guzeiji Temple Bell Tower in Higashiomi, Shiga, stands on a tall stone podium and is thought to be the oldest building in the precinct. It was registered in 2021.

Guseiji Temple Drum Tower in Higashiomi, Shiga, hangs its drum in an upper chamber and reads as a two-tiered turret from the road. It was registered in 2007.

Guseiji Temple Rest House in Higashiomi, Shiga, is a two-storey timber building of 1858 where worshippers rested and took tea, registered nationally in 2007.

Guzeiji Temple Middle Gate in Higashiomi, Shiga, is a late Edo gate carrying citrus and well-frame crests linked to the Ii family of Hikone. Registered in 2021.

Guseiji Temple Main Hall in Higashiomi, Shiga, is a tiled Shin Buddhist hall of 1753, 22 metres wide, registered as a national cultural property in 2007.

The former 130th Bank branch of 1900 in Nagahama, Shiga, a storehouse-style bank with Western details, is called Kurokabe, the Black Wall, for its black plaster.

The Koizumi Family Residence Rear Gate and Wall of 1938 pair a bracket-arm gate with a 22-meter wall of boat planks and lattice, its timber painted red with bengara.

The Koizumi Family Residence Large Storehouse is a late Edo two-storey kura with red-painted window hoods, a broad plaster band and boat-plank lower walls.

The Koizumi Family Residence Front Gate and Front Wall, of about 1907, pair a 3.8-meter yakui-mon gate with a 19-meter plastered wall with boat planks at its base.

The Koizumi Family Residence Rice Storehouse is a small late Edo kura with a separate oki-yane roof, copper hoods over its door and windows and a plain inside.

The Koizumi Family Residence Koyagura Storehouse of 1844 has plaster up to the eaves, boat-plank lower walls and stonework inside for work with a water channel.

The Koizumi Family Residence Zashiki Wing is a reception wing of about 1866, moved in 1907, with an eight-mat room, tokonoma, flat shoin and a room by a storehouse.

The Koizumi Family Residence Lower Privy and Middle Gate, of about 1915, divide the front garden from the inner courtyard with fine timber worked in sukiya style.

The Koizumi Family Residence Main House in Higashiomi, Shiga, is a two-storey house of about 1844, moved here in 1907, with a four-room plan under a wide gable roof.

The Koizumi Family Residence Small Western Wing and Apprentices' Rooms, of about 1909, pairs a Western room made from a privy with rooms for live-in apprentices.

The Koizumi Family Residence New Zashiki Wing is a Taisho-era reception wing with an eight-mat room, flush alcove and desk window, added as the merchant estate grew.

The Koizumi Family Residence Tatsumi Storehouse of 1844, moved twice, has a separate oki-yane roof and a door opening straight into the reception wing's side room.

The Koizumi Family Residence Barn, of about 1907, has an earthen floor split between a store and rice-polishing room and a brushwood store, joined to the front wall.

The Koizumi Family Residence Bunko Storehouse of 1909 has double doors, a thick plaster band under the eaves and boat-plank walls, marking the estate at its height.

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