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