Meiji

明治

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Former Ishibashi Family Residence Middle Storehouse
Shiga 明治
Former Ishibashi Family Residence Middle Storehouse

A late Meiji storehouse in Hikone whose ridge rests on curved beams, unlike the Western frame of its near-identical twin next door. Registered in 2013.

Former Ishibashi Family Residence Middle Main House
Shiga 明治
Former Ishibashi Family Residence Middle Main House

An early Meiji townhouse in Hikone with a white plastered upper storey, firewall wings, a projecting lattice and a low komayose railing. Registered 2013.

Former Ishibashi Family Residence West Storehouse
Shiga 明治
Former Ishibashi Family Residence West Storehouse

The largest of the compound's four storehouses, an early Meiji building at the northwest corner with canopied gable windows and sloping roof beams. Registered 2013.

Former Ishibashi Family Residence East Storehouse
Shiga 明治
Former Ishibashi Family Residence East Storehouse

A late Meiji storehouse in Hikone with white plaster walls, a south gable door and a lean-to shared with its twin, yet a Western-style roof frame. Registered 2013.

Former Ishibashi Family Residence East Main House
Shiga 明治
Former Ishibashi Family Residence East Main House

A late Meiji townhouse in Hikone's Serimachi with a 2-storey street block, courtyard and rear living wing, the largest of three main houses. Registered 2013.

Former Ichien Family Residence Document Storehouse
Shiga 明治
Former Ichien Family Residence Document Storehouse

An early Meiji storehouse in Taga, Shiga, joined to the main house and entered from its kuchiroka corridor. White sheet-iron walls, hachimaki band. Reg. 2014.

Former Kitamura Clinic (Riken Residence) West Ward
Shiga 明治
Former Kitamura Clinic (Riken Residence) West Ward

An early Meiji inpatient ward at a doctor's home in Nagahama, Shiga, with two six-mat rooms per floor and a curved ceiling and hanging alcove upstairs.

Former Ishibashi Family Residence North Wall
Shiga 明治
Former Ishibashi Family Residence North Wall

A late Meiji wall in Hikone linking two storehouses, 3.5 m high and 8.2 m long, with a one-ken doorway, a mokko-shaped window and eaves on timber arms.

Former Ishibashi Family Residence West Wall
Shiga 明治
Former Ishibashi Family Residence West Wall

The longest of four walls at a Hikone compound: 28 m of early Meiji timber and tile, with boards and white plaster outside and a plain earthen coat inside.

Former Ishibashi Family Residence Garden Wall
Shiga 明治
Former Ishibashi Family Residence Garden Wall

An early Meiji garden wall in Hikone, 9.7 m long: plastered and tiled to the north, a light yamato-bei fence with a wicket door and crossed transom to the south.

Former Ishibashi Family Residence South Wall
Shiga 明治
Former Ishibashi Family Residence South Wall

A late Meiji wall in Hikone, 3.3 m high and 21 m long, closing the gap between two main houses on the street front and lowering its ridge at the east boundary.

Former Joki Clinic Main House
Shiga 明治
Former Joki Clinic Main House

The Former Joki Clinic Main House in Maibara, Shiga, was built in 1904 with a clinic at its south entrance and family rooms behind and upstairs. Registered in 2019.

Former Joki Clinic West Storehouse
Shiga 明治
Former Joki Clinic West Storehouse

The Former Joki Clinic West Storehouse in Maibara, Shiga, is a late Meiji plastered storehouse that held rice and grain for a family of doctors. Registered in 2019.

Former Tada Family Residence Main Building
Shiga 明治
Former Tada Family Residence Main Building

The Former Tada Family Residence Main House in Otsu, Shiga is a mid-Meiji townhouse facing a lane in the old post town, keeping its lattice bay and guard rail.

Former Tanaka Family Residence (Omi Shojintei) South
Shiga 明治
Former Tanaka Family Residence (Omi Shojintei) South

The oldest of the five buildings, this 1892 plaster storehouse carries scrolling motifs and a family crest at its west door and a wave-formed eave on the east gable.

Kuzuno Joman Family Residence Storehouse
Shiga 明治
Kuzuno Joman Family Residence Storehouse

The Kuzuno Joman Family Residence Storehouse is an 1873 kura in Otsu whose gable faces the Myooin temple approach, with tall charred boards below white plaster.

Main Building of the Kurokabe Glass Hall (former 130th Bank Nagahama Branch)
Shiga 明治
Main Building of the Kurokabe Glass Hall (former 130th Bank Nagahama Branch)

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.

Koizumi Family Residence Rear Gate and Wall
Shiga 明治
Koizumi Family Residence Rear Gate and Wall

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.

Koizumi Family Residence Front Gate and Front Wall
Shiga 明治
Koizumi Family Residence Front Gate and Front Wall

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.

Koizumi Family Residence Barn
Shiga 明治
Koizumi Family Residence Barn

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.