Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Shiga

The wall of the Hatsuda Family Residence in Otsu, a late Edo timber wall 9.2 metres long, runs along the east lane from the main house, forming a period streetscape.

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 Main House sits on the old Kyo Kaido highway in Omihachiman, an early 19th-century townhouse of 117 square metres, registered in 1998 and still in use.

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.

Built in 1896 in Sone-cho, Nagahama, Shiga, this 1.8-metre shrine gate has a cypress-bark roof, a karahafu gable and relief carving, with a 36-metre tiled fence.

A 1929 registered property in Higashiomi, Shiga: a plain merchant-town front hiding a refined sukiya hall upstairs, with a curved coffered ceiling and bat-shaped windows.

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.

A 1929 registered property on the Fukada estate in Higashiomi, Shiga: a small wing for the bath and lavatory, yet with a corridor ceiling refined enough for a hanare.

A late 18th-century soy sauce brewer's townhouse on Omizo's merchant street in Takashima, Shiga. It keeps its tiled udatsu fire walls and houses a cafe and bakery.

A small early 19th-century storehouse behind the Fukui main house in Takashima, Shiga, holding household goods rather than soy sauce. Plaster above, boarding below.

An early 19th-century koji fermentation room in Takashima, Shiga, where soy sauce brewing began. Its long front roof slope gives it the look of a Shinto shrine hall.

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.

The Fujii Honke chimney rises about eleven meters between two storehouses, its square brick shaft laid in English bond, red brick set against the white plastered walls.

This small building held Fujii Honke's testing and inspection rooms, where the finished sake was judged. Its plastered west front carries an insect-cage lattice window.

The Fujii Honke brewing storehouse stands by a stone-lined channel. Inside this earthen-walled hall, steamed rice, koji, starter and Suzuka water form the staged mash.