Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Shiga

The Koizumi Family Residence Main House in Higashiomi, Shiga, is a two-storey house of about 1844, moved here in 1907, with a four-room plan under a wide gable roof.

The Koizumi Family Residence Small Western Wing and Apprentices' Rooms, of about 1909, pairs a Western room made from a privy with rooms for live-in apprentices.

The Koizumi Family Residence New Zashiki Wing is a Taisho-era reception wing with an eight-mat room, flush alcove and desk window, added as the merchant estate grew.

The Koizumi Family Residence Tatsumi Storehouse of 1844, moved twice, has a separate oki-yane roof and a door opening straight into the reception wing's side room.

The Koizumi Family Residence Barn, of about 1907, has an earthen floor split between a store and rice-polishing room and a brushwood store, joined to the front wall.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.