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Koizumi Family Residence Large Storehouse
Shiga 江戸
Koizumi Family Residence Large Storehouse

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.

Koizumi Family Residence Rice Storehouse
Shiga 江戸
Koizumi Family Residence Rice Storehouse

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.

Koizumi Family Residence Koyagura Storehouse
Shiga 江戸
Koizumi Family Residence Koyagura Storehouse

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.

Koizumi Family Residence Zashiki Wing
Shiga 江戸
Koizumi Family Residence Zashiki Wing

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.

Koizumi Family Residence Main House
Shiga 江戸
Koizumi Family Residence Main House

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.

Koizumi Family Residence Tatsumi Storehouse
Shiga 江戸
Koizumi Family Residence Tatsumi Storehouse

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.

Saiganji Temple Main Hall
Shiga 江戸
Saiganji Temple Main Hall

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.

Saikyoji Temple Mausoleum
Shiga 江戸
Saikyoji Temple Mausoleum

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.

Jisseibo Gate
Shiga 江戸
Jisseibo Gate

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.

Shojukan Main House
Shiga 江戸
Shojukan Main House

Shojukan Main House of 1814 is a thatched farmhouse-type merchant residence in Gokasho, registered in 2021, notable for a rare doubled tie-beam roof frame.

Shojukan North Storehouse
Shiga 江戸
Shojukan North Storehouse

Dating from 1800, Shojukan North Storehouse is the oldest building on the estate, shortened at its northern end in the late Edo period and registered in 2021.

Shojukan Rice Storehouse
Shiga 江戸
Shojukan Rice Storehouse

Shojukan Rice Storehouse of 1860 is the only store on the estate boarded below and plastered above, a skirt of timber against rain splash. Registered in 2021.

Shojukan New Storehouse
Shiga 江戸
Shojukan New Storehouse

Built in 1865, Shojukan New Storehouse has the deepest plan of the five stores at three bays, the last one raised in the Edo period. Registered in 2021.

Shojukan Document Storehouse
Shiga 江戸
Shojukan Document Storehouse

Shojukan Document Storehouse of 1829 is the largest of the five stores, its doubled roof and plastered band built to keep paper dry. Registered in 2021.

Shojukan South Storehouse
Shiga 江戸
Shojukan South Storehouse

Shojukan South Storehouse of the late Edo period is the only store here entered from the gable end, opening straight off a tatami room. Registered in 2021.

Takamiya Shrine Main Hall
Shiga 江戸
Takamiya Shrine Main Hall

The main hall of Takamiya Shrine in Shigaraki, Koka, built in 1859 by a master carpenter from Hachiman, is a fine medium-sized one-bay nagare-style shrine hall.

Tarobogu Aga Shrine Worship Hall
Shiga 江戸
Tarobogu Aga Shrine Worship Hall

The worship hall of Tarobogu Aga Shrine in Higashiomi, Shiga, from the late Edo period, is an open hall at the foot of the rock peak and a rare early building there.

Tarobogu Aga Shrine Main Hall
Shiga 江戸
Tarobogu Aga Shrine Main Hall

The main hall of Tarobogu Aga Shrine in Higashiomi, Shiga, built in 1753 on the flank of a rock peak, is a small hip-and-gable hall rich in carved beasts.

Tsuchiyama Family Residence (Tsuchiyama-shuku Honjin Site) Rice Storehouse
Shiga 江戸
Tsuchiyama Family Residence (Tsuchiyama-shuku Honjin Site) Rice Storehouse

A tiny late Edo rice store at the old Tsuchiyama honjin in Shiga, built as a seirogura of stacked planks, then plastered and clad in boards. Registered in 2023.

Tsuchiyama Family Residence (Tsuchiyama-shuku Honjin Site) Storehouse
Shiga 江戸
Tsuchiyama Family Residence (Tsuchiyama-shuku Honjin Site) Storehouse

A two-storey earthen storehouse of the late Edo period in a corner of the old Tsuchiyama honjin, Shiga, with a separate okiyane roof set on its thick clay walls.