Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The Koizumi Family Residence Western-Style House, of about 1906, has tiled walls, sash windows and a Spanish-tile band below a Japanese-framed upper floor.

Facing east at the southwest corner, the 1928 kagura hall of Kojinyama Shrine in Hikone, Shiga, opens its shutters for rites and hides a dressing room behind.

Attached to the east veranda of the worship hall, the 1895 offering hall of Kojinyama Shrine in Hikone, Shiga, prepares food offerings behind ribbed doors.

At the foot of Mount Kojin in Hikone, Shiga, this stone torii of 1909 measures 9.0 metres in both height and span. It was raised by local subscribers.

Built in 1895, the worship hall of Kojinyama Shrine in Hikone, Shiga, opens through half-shutters under a gabled canopy. At 44 square metres it is the largest.

The 1879 main hall of Kojinyama Shrine in Hikone, Shiga, is a three-bay nagare-zukuri sanctuary in solid cypress, sparely detailed and registered in 2017.

The connecting hall of Kojinyama Shrine in Hikone, Shiga, links sanctuary to worship hall. Built in 1895 and gabled under copper, it is the smallest of the six.

Only 1.2 meters long, the stone bridge before the former Fujii estate flares toward the road and carries high railings with rounded posts over a Koto village canal.

A roofed timber wall about 30 meters long encloses the main house of the former Fujii estate, built differently on each face to divide private rooms from service areas.

A compact two-story storehouse at the former Fujii estate, its white plaster skirt faced with horizontal planks reused from old wooden river boats.

Rebuilt here in 1932, the plain main house of the former Fujii estate anchors the Gokasho folk museum and shows how thrifty Omi merchants once lived and worked.

Running nearly 114 meters, the concrete outer wall of the former Fujii estate carries a stone gate with iron doors, modern for a village of board and earthen walls.

Beside the front gate stands this two-story storehouse of the former Fujii estate, plain at a glance but finished with vertical boards and garden-side cedar bark.

This corridor of about 10 square meters joins the plain main house to the ornate guest hall of the former Fujii estate, finished with care despite its modest role.

The former Nishi-Oshitate National School in Higashiomi, Shiga is a 1943 wooden schoolhouse with a courtyard plan and red pantile roof, registered in 1998.

Kohoku Library in Nagahama, Shiga: a 1937 farmers' hall by Kinomoto Station with arched windows and buttresses, home to a private library founded in 1902.

Saiganji Temple Main Hall in Omihachiman, Shiga: a thatched Jodo Buddhist hall of the mid-Edo period with a farmhouse-like roof ringed by tiled lean-tos.

An early Showa two-story storehouse in Saikyoji's private quarters in Otsu, taller than its neighbor and with plastered eaves over hinged doors. Registered in 2001.

A late Meiji sukiya pavilion behind the Guest Hall at Saikyoji in Otsu, finished in vermilion sand walls with bark-edged rails and wave transoms. Registered 2001.

A Taisho-era hira-karamon gate in the fence south of the Guest Hall at Saikyoji in Otsu, 2.1 m wide with a cypress-bark roof and carved gable. Registered 2001.

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