Taishō
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A refined 1919 reception wing at Sasaki Shrine in Azuchi, Omihachiman, Shiga, registered in 2021, with a formal shoin room and a tea room.
The 1924 auditorium of the former Hikone Higher Commercial School, now Shiga University, stands by the moat of Hikone Castle, clapboarded and topped by a tower.
Built in 1918, Shojukan Front Gate and Wall pairs a 1.8-metre gate set back 9.5 metres from the lane with 136 metres of tiled timber fence around the grounds.
Shojukan Kawato is an early Taisho stone washing place on a village channel in Gokasho, granite-framed with steps down to the water, registered in 2021.
Shojukan Hallway Tatami Room of the early Taisho era is eight mats that also serve as a passage, with a drum-shaped lath window. It was registered in 2021.
The ema hall of Tarobogu Aga Shrine in Higashiomi, Shiga, designed in 1925 by a Nara Prefecture engineer, is a plain, orderly hall at the foot of the precinct.
The worship pavilion of Tarobogu Aga Shrine in Higashiomi, Shiga, built in 1924, merges with the main hall under a complex copper roofscape that crowns the precinct.
The Western-style house of the Niki family in Koka, Shiga, built in 1923, has a half-timbered upper gable and roughcast walls, standing out at a T-junction.
The small Taisho-era rice store of the Nomura family in Higashiomi, Shiga, keeps rice in a chamber with thick clay walls and a clay-covered ceiling against damp.
Built in 1919 in Higashiomi, Shiga, the Nomura main house stacks four-room plans on two floors under a gently swelling roof, with slatted mushiko-mado windows.
The 1919 storehouse of the Nomura family in Higashiomi, Shiga, joins the house through a covered entry and stands on cut granite, its door framed in relief plaster.
The Himurean Former Washing Room of around 1921 gathers the earth-floored work area, bath and lavatory behind the main house. 38 square metres, registered in 1998.
The Himurean Zashiki Reception Wing of around 1921 turns its gable to the eastern road and finishes its corridor like a wall. 80 square metres, registered in 1998.
The Himurean High Wall runs 5.8 metres along the old Kyo Kaido highway east of the main house front, timber framed with exposed posts, registered in 1998.
The Himurean West Storehouse of around 1921 holds the southern boundary with the east storehouse, 46 square metres of earthen-walled building, registered in 1998.
The Himurean Annex of around 1921 was built as retirement quarters, one room on each of two floors, 30 square metres, the smallest of the 7 items registered in 1998.
The Himurean East Storehouse of around 1921 shows its long wall to the eastern road, finished to match the reception wing. 36 square metres, registered in 1998.
The oldest of the estate's three registered buildings in Higashiomi, Shiga: a kura of about 1919, facing the road with board skirting below and corrugated iron above.
Fujii Honke's main house began as a merchant home in Hino, rebuilt at this Aisho brewery around 1960. Its stepped roofline sets formal rooms apart from the work hall.
The Fujii Honke shoin is a single-story guest wing of three linked blocks. Rebuilt here at a right angle to the main house, it reflects a Taisho merchant family's taste.