Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Shiga

Saikyoji Temple Bathhouse, built in 1931 for the monks, is reinforced concrete cast to copy timber posts, rails, brackets, bargeboards and a gable pendant.

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.

The Ryosui Hall of Shiga University in Hikone, built in 1938 as an alumni hall designed by Vories, has cream walls, Spanish tiles and chequered tiles by its doors.

The gate of Jisseibo, a sub-temple of Saikyoji in Sakamoto, Otsu, is a late Edo yakuimon gate that, with the anoshu stone walls beside it, frames the approach.

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 Main House of 1814 is a thatched farmhouse-type merchant residence in Gokasho, registered in 2021, notable for a rare doubled tie-beam roof frame.

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.

Dating from 1800, Shojukan North Storehouse is the oldest building on the estate, shortened at its northern end in the late Edo period and registered in 2021.

Shojukan Rice Storehouse of 1860 is the only store on the estate boarded below and plastered above, a skirt of timber against rain splash. Registered in 2021.

Built in 1865, Shojukan New Storehouse has the deepest plan of the five stores at three bays, the last one raised in the Edo period. Registered in 2021.

Shojukan Shindachi of 1873 is the only building here listed for design merit, its raised chamber prepared for a princely visit in 1924. Registered in 2021.

Shojukan Shinryo of 1933 pairs a mock coved ceiling with a four-tap sink in one twelve-mat room whose use the register calls unknown. Registered in 2021.

Shojukan Nagaya of the early Showa era uses the perimeter fence as its only wall, with heavy reused posts inside and an L-shaped tiled roof. Registered in 2021.

Shojukan Document Storehouse of 1829 is the largest of the five stores, its doubled roof and plastered band built to keep paper dry. Registered in 2021.

Shojukan Mizuya, an early Meiji kitchen wing, keeps its granite floor, its well, its sink and two cooking stoves across 93 square metres. Registered in 2021.

Shojukan South Storehouse of the late Edo period is the only store here entered from the gable end, opening straight off a tatami room. 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.

Built about 1935 in Shimoisshiki-cho, Higashiomi, Shiga, this munamon gate has a tiled roof with copper edges and a gentle mukuri curve. Carpenter: Kimura Tahee.

A late Edo townhouse in Kawara, Hikone, Shiga, refaced in 1934 as a post office with tiled walls, a mortar cornice and a pediment. Registered in 2011; exterior only.

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