Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Shiga

A Showa-period timber goma hall at Kannonshoji in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. It was itself built out of the old members of a much older hall there today.

A Meiji-period timber Jizo hall at Kannonshoji in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. Its own front bays over there are each fitted in quite different ways today.

An Edo-period timber gate at Kannonshoji in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. It is measured only by its own frontage over there, and by nothing else even now.

A Showa-period timber bell house at Kannonshoji in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. It shares its own structure with a bell tower at another temple even today.

A Showa-period timber water pavilion at Kannonshoji in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. It only covers some 1.5 square metres in all of it over there even now.

A Showa-period timber fuda hall at Kannonshoji in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. What it once enshrined over there is written of only in the past tense now.

A Showa-period storehouse in Toyosato, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. Its own windows over there face a different way at each single one of its own storeys.

Nidoji Shrine Main Hall in Shigaraki is a one-bay Kasuga-style sanctuary of 1703 with a cypress-bark roof, registered in 2003 as a rare Kasuga-style hall in Shiga.

A 1910 farmhouse in Nagahama, Shiga, with a six-room plan, a lacquered reception room facing an Edo-period garden and a silkworm loft upstairs. Registered in 2025.

A late Edo-period thatched yakuimon gate at the Akada house in Nagahama, Shiga, flanked by tiled wing walls, with log rafters and a side wicket. Registered in 2025.

A 1917 two-storey clay storehouse at the Akada house in Nagahama, Shiga, with white lime plaster over washed-mortar walls, a granite base and an okiyane roof.

A 1916 guest pavilion at the Akada house in Nagahama, Shiga, with connected tatami rooms, a three-mat study, a round window and a bark-covered red pine alcove post.

A 1967 outbuilding at the Akada house in Nagahama, Shiga, with weatherboard and sheet-iron walls, forming the estate's street front beside its thatched gate.

The former YMCA hall of Omihachiman, Shiga, built in 1935 and now the Andrews Memorial Hall, pairs Japanese and Western rooms under red glazed tiles and white walls.

Anyoin Temple Amida Hall, built in 1934 at a Saikyoji sub-temple in Otsu, sits on rough stones and echoes a Zen abbot's quarters with verandas on all four sides.

Anyoin Temple Storehouse, a 2-storey kura of 1934 beside the Amida Hall at a Saikyoji sub-temple in Otsu, has mortar and lime walls and a torii-shaped doorway.

Anyoin Temple Priests' Quarters, a 1928 residence at a Saikyoji sub-temple in Otsu, is its largest building at 175 square metres, with a broad roof and kitchen wing.

Anyoin Temple Jizo Hall, a pyramid-roofed hall at a Saikyoji sub-temple in Otsu dated to the late Edo period by weathering, has an ornate carved transom in front.

Anyoin Temple Shoin, a small 1930 residence at a Saikyoji sub-temple in Otsu, has an alcove room, its own kitchen and an L-shaped corridor facing the garden.

Anyoin Temple Shoten Hall, the oldest hall at a Saikyoji sub-temple in Otsu, joins an earthen-walled late-Edo sanctuary under a pyramid roof to a worship room.

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