Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The 1842 tomb of founder Shinsei Shonin on high ground west of Saikyoji's Main Hall in Otsu, with a pyramidal roof and carved monkeys; the oldest of 18 registered.

An 1894 founder's hall below Saikyoji's Main Hall in Otsu, built after the school's independence, with a karahafu front and palace-style detailing. Registered 2001.

A 1917 four-legged gate before Saikyoji's Founder's Hall in Otsu, with karahafu front and back, carved dragons and lions and long earthen walls. Registered 2001.

A 1917 hira-karamon gate on a raised base west of Saikyoji's Founder's Hall in Otsu, 3.0 m wide and plain, its large ridge strut the core of the design.

A hexagonal water pavilion of about 1917 facing the side gate in Saikyoji's Founder's Hall compound in Otsu, sheltering a lotus-shaped basin. Registered 2001.

A 1916 shoin hall facing the Guest Hall at Saikyoji in Otsu, built for the great 1917 service: 13 by 9 bays, four front and six rear rooms. Registered in 2001.

An early Showa sukiya room behind the Guest Hall at Saikyoji in Otsu, sharing the Kanrantei's plan but with white walls and red-oxide posts. Registered 2001.

Saikyoji Temple Seikyo Storehouse in Otsu was built in 1879 to hold 200 boxes of scriptures from Mount Hiei. Its plastered porch keeps carved early Meiji details.

Saikyoji Temple Naishika Guest Hall, built around 1930 as the chief abbot's office, pairs light open eaves with a finely chamfered ceiling in two rooms by a pond.

Saikyoji Temple Naishika Storehouse is a small early Showa clay store in the chief abbot's section, with double doors under a plastered canopy and a boarded base.

Saikyoji Temple Naishika Priests' Quarters, of about 1930, was the chief abbot's home: sitting rooms south, kitchen north, and a lattice gable matching his office.

Saikyoji Temple Naishika Connecting Corridor, of about 1930, links the Shoin to the chief abbot's office. Only 3 shaku wide, it shows curved tie beams and struts.

Saikyoji Temple Ossuary, built around 1917 southeast of the Main Hall, stacks a raised roof over a lean-to, framed by a great ginkgo, cherries and maples.

Saikyoji Temple Water Pavilion, built in 1944 before the Main Hall, gives a 4.4-square-metre font a heavy tiled roof, deep eaves, coffers and a dragon spout.

Saikyoji Temple Bathhouse, built in 1931 for the monks, is reinforced concrete cast to copy timber posts, rails, brackets, bargeboards and a gable pendant.

A refined 1919 reception wing at Sasaki Shrine in Azuchi, Omihachiman, Shiga, registered in 2021, with a formal shoin room and a tea room.

The 1924 auditorium of the former Hikone Higher Commercial School, now Shiga University, stands by the moat of Hikone Castle, clapboarded and topped by a tower.

The Ryosui Hall of Shiga University in Hikone, built in 1938 as an alumni hall designed by Vories, has cream walls, Spanish tiles and chequered tiles by its doors.

The gate of Jisseibo, a sub-temple of Saikyoji in Sakamoto, Otsu, is a late Edo yakuimon gate that, with the anoshu stone walls beside it, frames the approach.

Built in 1918, Shojukan Front Gate and Wall pairs a 1.8-metre gate set back 9.5 metres from the lane with 136 metres of tiled timber fence around the grounds.

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