Meiji
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The Koizumi Family Residence Bunko Storehouse of 1909 has double doors, a thick plaster band under the eaves and boat-plank walls, marking the estate at its height.
The Koizumi Family Residence Western-Style House, of about 1906, has tiled walls, sash windows and a Spanish-tile band below a Japanese-framed upper floor.
Attached to the east veranda of the worship hall, the 1895 offering hall of Kojinyama Shrine in Hikone, Shiga, prepares food offerings behind ribbed doors.
At the foot of Mount Kojin in Hikone, Shiga, this stone torii of 1909 measures 9.0 metres in both height and span. It was raised by local subscribers.
Built in 1895, the worship hall of Kojinyama Shrine in Hikone, Shiga, opens through half-shutters under a gabled canopy. At 44 square metres it is the largest.
The 1879 main hall of Kojinyama Shrine in Hikone, Shiga, is a three-bay nagare-zukuri sanctuary in solid cypress, sparely detailed and registered in 2017.
The connecting hall of Kojinyama Shrine in Hikone, Shiga, links sanctuary to worship hall. Built in 1895 and gabled under copper, it is the smallest of the six.
A compact two-story storehouse at the former Fujii estate, its white plaster skirt faced with horizontal planks reused from old wooden river boats.
Rebuilt here in 1932, the plain main house of the former Fujii estate anchors the Gokasho folk museum and shows how thrifty Omi merchants once lived and worked.
A late Meiji sukiya pavilion behind the Guest Hall at Saikyoji in Otsu, finished in vermilion sand walls with bark-edged rails and wave transoms. Registered 2001.
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.
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.
Shojukan Shindachi of 1873 is the only building here listed for design merit, its raised chamber prepared for a princely visit in 1924. Registered in 2021.
Shojukan Mizuya, an early Meiji kitchen wing, keeps its granite floor, its well, its sink and two cooking stoves across 93 square metres. Registered in 2021.
A 64-square-metre reception room in Aisho Town, Shiga, built in 1878 for the Meiji Emperor's rest stop and moved by hikiya in 1911. Registered in December 2000.
An 1911 timber banquet hall of 183 square metres in Aisho Town, Shiga, with six ten-mat rooms, boat-bottom ceilings and flanking corridors. Registered in 2000.
The first torii of Tarobogu Aga Shrine in Higashiomi, Shiga, a great stone torii of 1894, marks the start of the approach and frames the mountain beyond.
The Eianden of Tarobogu Aga Shrine in Higashiomi, Shiga, a two-storey kagura hall and office of 1907 below the cliff, links to the worship hall by an upper veranda.
The kagura hall of Tarobogu Aga Shrine in Higashiomi, Shiga, a mid-Meiji hall behind the worship hall with a coffered ceiling, forms the heart of the precinct.
The amulet office of Tarobogu Aga Shrine in Higashiomi, Shiga, a tiny mid-Meiji building at the foot of the steps, has its back set into a hollow in the rock face.