Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Shiga

Built in 1919 before the main sanctuary of Otori Shrine in Koka, Shiga, this small hall doubles as a gate, with curved gables front and back and 66 m of fences.

The 1919 worship hall at Otori Shrine in Koka, Shiga, is open on all four sides, roofed in cypress bark and crowned inside by a double-coved coffered ceiling.

North of the offering hall at Otori Shrine in Koka, Shiga, this 1919 earthen storehouse keeps the mikoshi, with a deep plaster cornice and small round windows.

Designed by Kyoto architect Kameoka Suekichi, this 1919 vermilion gate at Otori Shrine in Koka, Shiga, reproduces medieval curves in its columns and rafters.

Oka Shrine Tamagaki Fence in Higashiomi, Shiga, is a 52-metre roofed timber fence of 1892 on a stone base, with lozenge lattice in each bay, around the Main Hall.

Oka Shrine Purification Pavilion in Higashiomi, Shiga, is a late Meiji shelter of 7.7 square metres by the entrance, with inward-leaning posts and carved beam ends.

Oka Shrine Norito Hall in Higashiomi, Shiga, is a 9.6-square-metre gabled hall of 1892 joining the Offering Hall and the Main Hall, with lozenge-lattice transoms.

Oka Shrine Worship Hall in Higashiomi, Shiga, is a late Meiji hall of 3 by 3 bays with a bare earth floor, a raised coffered ceiling and double-raftered eaves.

Oka Shrine Offering Hall, built in 1892 in Higashiomi, Shiga, is a seven-bay hall whose raised central gable and cusped porch answer the tall Main Hall behind it.

Oka Shrine Main Hall in Higashiomi, Shiga, is a shinmei sanctuary said to come from Ise Jingu's 1889 rebuilding, moved here in 1892, with free-standing ridge posts.

Oku-Ibuki Hometown Folklore Museum in Maibara, Shiga: a thatched late Edo farmhouse that escaped the fire of 1836, where Noh is said to have been staged.

Okkin Mukugawa Community Hall in Takashima, Shiga: an 1881 thatched farmhouse with a hearth room, used as a community hall until general use ended in 2024.

Kaimonzan Mangetsuji Ukimido, rebuilt in 1937 after a typhoon, is a pyramid-roofed hall standing in Lake Biwa at Otsu, reached from shore by a 17-metre stone bridge.

Kaimonzan Mangetsuji Kannon Hall, built in 1766, is the main hall of Mangetsu-ji in Otsu, a small hip-and-gable hall with a diagonal tile floor beside Lake Biwa.

Kaimonzan Mangetsuji Guest Hall, built in 1754 by local carpenter Kichibei, faces Lake Biwa in Otsu and keeps a four-room plan with rooms looking onto the lake.

Kaimonzan Mangetsuji Main Gate, built in 1812 in Otsu, is a white-skirted two-storey gate whose doorless opening frames the Ukimido hall out on Lake Biwa.

Gyokukotei, the tea house of Kaimonzan Mangetsuji in Otsu, was built in 1937 with timber from the wrecked Ukimido and joins two tea rooms under an L-shaped roof.

Kagiro in Taga, Shiga: an 1877 restaurant-inn by Taga Taisha, with a sukiya-style three-storey guest wing and railed third floor. Meals and stays by reservation.

Late Edo earthen storehouse beside the Nunoso cloth shop on the Nakasendo in Hikone, Shiga, with a separately framed roof and carved strut ends. Registered in 2013.

Largest and tallest of three late Edo storehouses on the Nunoso cloth merchant's lot in Hikone, Shiga, with a thick plaster band under its eaves. Registered 2013.

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