Shōwa

Gyokukotei, the tea house of Kaimonzan Mangetsuji in Otsu, was built in 1937 with timber from the wrecked Ukimido and joins two tea rooms under an L-shaped roof.

Added in 1933 behind a Taga inn in Shiga, this single-storey wing pairs a fifteen-mat room with a shoin bay and a cabinet cut as a temple window. Registered in 2002.

Kawakami Family Residence in Otsu, Shiga is the western half of a 1933 wooden row house of 37 square metres, down a lane off the old Tokaido and registered in 2020.

A former rice storehouse of the early Showa era behind a Tokaido townhouse in Ritto, Shiga, twice the east storehouse's size, with a tall skirting and curved roof.

An early Showa guest wing behind a Tokaido townhouse in Ritto, Shiga: a 2-storey block with a hipped-and-gabled shoin, showing how local houses changed.

The Former Imazu Post Office in Takashima, Shiga, built in 1936, is a cottage-style building with an arched porch, stucco walls and well-preserved interior fittings.

An early Showa inpatient ward in Nagahama, Shiga, with red bengara woodwork, one ten-mat room on each floor, an earthen passage and an upstairs toilet.

A 4.2-square-meter Showa-era toilet building in Nagahama, Shiga, with carved brackets, red checkerboard floor tiles and a different ceiling in each stall.

Built around 1930 for a family of doctors in Maibara, the Former Joki Clinic Shoin has tatami corridors on the garden and transoms carved with a dragon and Mt Fuji.

The 1937 main building of the Toyosato school in Shiga, registered in 2013, a symmetrical modernist design by Vories with a central tower, now open to visitors.

Facing east at the southwest corner, the 1928 kagura hall of Kojinyama Shrine in Hikone, Shiga, opens its shutters for rites and hides a dressing room behind.

Only 1.2 meters long, the stone bridge before the former Fujii estate flares toward the road and carries high railings with rounded posts over a Koto village canal.

A roofed timber wall about 30 meters long encloses the main house of the former Fujii estate, built differently on each face to divide private rooms from service areas.

Running nearly 114 meters, the concrete outer wall of the former Fujii estate carries a stone gate with iron doors, modern for a village of board and earthen walls.

Beside the front gate stands this two-story storehouse of the former Fujii estate, plain at a glance but finished with vertical boards and garden-side cedar bark.

This corridor of about 10 square meters joins the plain main house to the ornate guest hall of the former Fujii estate, finished with care despite its modest role.

The former Nishi-Oshitate National School in Higashiomi, Shiga is a 1943 wooden schoolhouse with a courtyard plan and red pantile roof, registered in 1998.

Kohoku Library in Nagahama, Shiga: a 1937 farmers' hall by Kinomoto Station with arched windows and buttresses, home to a private library founded in 1902.

An early Showa two-story storehouse in Saikyoji's private quarters in Otsu, taller than its neighbor and with plastered eaves over hinged doors. Registered in 2001.

An early Showa sukiya room behind the Guest Hall at Saikyoji in Otsu, sharing the Kanrantei's plan but with white walls and red-oxide posts. Registered 2001.