Edo
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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 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 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.
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.
The Kuzuno Joki Family Residence Storehouse is a late Edo kura in Otsu, older than the 1843 main house, valued for its careful details and charred-board walls.
The Kuzuno Joki Family Residence Main House in Otsu is an 1843 thatched home of the lay leaders of Myooin temple, with a formal shikidai step by its earthen door.
The Kuzuno Joman Family Residence Main House in Otsu is a Tenpo-era thatched house of the family that ran Myooin temple's office, prized for its rare passage plan.
Guzeiji Temple Front Gate in Higashiomi, Shiga, is a four-legged gate of 1721, 3.9 metres wide, with a dragon carved above the lintel. It was registered in 2021.
Guseiji Temple Sutra Repository in Higashiomi, Shiga, is an earth-plastered scripture store of 1835 under a pyramidal tiled roof, registered nationally in 2007.
Guzeiji Temple Priests' Quarters in Higashiomi, Shiga, is a timber temple house of 1805 covering 310 square metres, with a richly worked gable end. Registered 2021.
Guseiji Temple Priests' Quarters Gate in Higashiomi, Shiga, is an 8.8-metre late Edo gatehouse with rooms built into its length, registered nationally in 2007.
Guzeiji Temple Entrance Hall in Higashiomi, Shiga, roofs its threshold porch in cypress bark and gathers its carving there. It was registered nationally in 2021.
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.