Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Shiga

A two-storey earthen storehouse of the late Edo period in a corner of the old Tsuchiyama honjin, Shiga, with a separate okiyane roof set on its thick clay walls.

A late Meiji annex behind the old Tsuchiyama honjin, called the imperial seat for Emperor Meiji's 1868 stay, with a raised jodan-no-ma room. Listed 2023; by booking.

An 1872 townhouse in Otsu with granite-faced front and insect-cage windows, the Nakano Family Residence Main House shows the eaves cutting of early Showa.

Next door to the older Nakano house in Otsu, this 1910 townhouse has a latticed ground floor, glazed upper windows and projecting-beam eaves along the street.

The early Meiji Nakano Family Residence Storehouse in Otsu is a two-storey plastered storehouse with black-plaster crests on its doors and carved window brackets.

Behind a townhouse in Otsu, the late Meiji Nakano Family Residence Annex has a 12-mat room with alcove and shelves set between a small garden and a courtyard.

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 main hall of Nishifukuji in Higashiomi, Shiga, built in 1862 at the end of the Edo period, follows the typical Jodo plan, with carvings throughout.

The Imazu Church in Takashima, Shiga, a 1934 timber church by the Vories architectural office, has a broad gabled front topped by a tower and a square sanctuary.

The chapel of the Omi Kaneda Church in Omihachiman, Shiga, built in 1950, has a bell tower, an arched entrance and an upstairs sanctuary with exposed trusses.

The Katata Church in Otsu, Shiga, designed by the Vories office in 1930, has four Tudor-arched windows on its front and a square tower with a pointed roof.

The red-brick wall of the Katata Church in Otsu, Shiga, built in 1930 on the street to the harbour, is 15.5 metres long, with its top course turned 45 degrees.

The brick gateposts of the Minakuchi Church in Koka, Shiga, built in 1930 in line with the chapel entrance, stand 1.5 metres high with low walls on either side.

The chapel of the Minakuchi Church in Koka, Shiga, built in 1930 by the Vories office, has a Latin-cross plan with its sanctuary set across the transept.

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.

Hakuunkan in Omihachiman, Shiga, built in 1877 as the Hachiman East School, is a pseudo-Western building whose gable and drum tower recall the Kaichi School.

The main house of the Hatsuda Family Residence in Otsu is a late Edo townhouse, remodelled in 1934, with iron-barred slit windows and a lattice on Nakamachi-dori.

The storehouse of the Hatsuda Family Residence in Otsu, a late Edo building behind the main house, has a neat torii-shaped doorway and keeps festival furnishings.

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