Meiji
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The purification pavilion of Tarobogu Aga Shrine in Higashiomi, Shiga, built in 1911 on a rock ledge, uses revivalist details to mark the sacred entrance.
The stage of Tarobogu Aga Shrine in Higashiomi, Shiga, built in 1880, juts from a rock ledge on a braced timber frame, forming the open space before the main hall.
A late Meiji annex behind the old Tsuchiyama honjin, called the imperial seat for Emperor Meiji's 1868 stay, with a raised jodan-no-ma room. Listed 2023; by booking.
An 1872 townhouse in Otsu with granite-faced front and insect-cage windows, the Nakano Family Residence Main House shows the eaves cutting of early Showa.
Next door to the older Nakano house in Otsu, this 1910 townhouse has a latticed ground floor, glazed upper windows and projecting-beam eaves along the street.
The early Meiji Nakano Family Residence Storehouse in Otsu is a two-storey plastered storehouse with black-plaster crests on its doors and carved window brackets.
Behind a townhouse in Otsu, the late Meiji Nakano Family Residence Annex has a 12-mat room with alcove and shelves set between a small garden and a courtyard.
Hakuunkan in Omihachiman, Shiga, built in 1877 as the Hachiman East School, is a pseudo-Western building whose gable and drum tower recall the Kaichi School.
Built in 1896 in Sone-cho, Nagahama, Shiga, this 1.8-metre shrine gate has a cypress-bark roof, a karahafu gable and relief carving, with a 36-metre tiled fence.
A registered cultural property in Nagahama, Shiga. Built around 1884 purely for guests, its 24-mat hall opens onto a veranda facing a garden of Mount Fuji lava.
A registered cultural property in Nagahama, Shiga. This 23-square-metre plastered storehouse opens off the main house passage, its door sealed by stepped plaster.
A registered cultural property in Nagahama, Shiga. Built around 1884 as a merchant family villa, its walls are plastered to the eaves and its windows iron-grilled.
Early Meiji workshop where rice was washed and steamed at the old Nishikatsu brewery in Omihachiman. Timber walls and a roof vent mark it out. Registered 2022.
Early Meiji home of the old Nishikatsu sake brewery in Omihachiman. Its wide frontage, clay-screened windows and udatsu firewall shape the street. Registered 2022.
Early Meiji bottling storehouse at the old Nishikatsu brewery in Omihachiman, extended again and again until its roof stepped down in three stages. Registered 2022.
Pressing room built in 1911 at the old Nishikatsu brewery in Omihachiman, an earthen storehouse with a trussed roof. Now a rental hall with a stage for events.
Early Meiji brewing storehouse with an attached passage storehouse at the old Nishikatsu brewery in Omihachiman. One central post carries its roof. Registered 2022.
Early Meiji storehouse where the yeast starter was raised at the old Nishikatsu sake brewery in Omihachiman. Now a rental hall where old wooden vats remain.
Myorakuji Temple Sutra Repository in Kinomoto, Shiga, is an 1899 earthen-walled sutra store registered in 2023, with a jewel finial and painted celestials inside.
A three-bay nagare-zukuri shrine sanctuary of only 13 square metres in Kotakaricho, Higashiomi, Shiga. Registered 2004 as a model of design; exterior viewing only.