Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Shiga

An early Meiji townhouse in Hikone with a white plastered upper storey, firewall wings, a projecting lattice and a low komayose railing. Registered 2013.

The largest of the compound's four storehouses, an early Meiji building at the northwest corner with canopied gable windows and sloping roof beams. Registered 2013.

The oldest of the Ishibashi compound's 11 buildings: a low late Edo townhouse with a tsushi-nikai half storey, a mushiko window and a firewall wing. Registered 2013.

A late Meiji storehouse in Hikone with white plaster walls, a south gable door and a lean-to shared with its twin, yet a Western-style roof frame. Registered 2013.

A late Meiji townhouse in Hikone's Serimachi with a 2-storey street block, courtyard and rear living wing, the largest of three main houses. Registered 2013.

A freestanding late Edo rice storehouse behind the main house in Taga, Shiga, 7.4 by 3.8 meters, with white sheet-iron walls, a plank skirt and a canopied west door.

Built in 1857 in Taga, Shiga, this two-storey farmhouse has a six-room plan, L-shaped reception rooms, a formal shikidai entry and black plaster walls. Reg. 2014.

A late Edo storehouse on the south side of the main house in Taga, Shiga: two names, one building, plaster carried up under the eaves, an okiyane roof. Reg. 2014.

An early Meiji storehouse in Taga, Shiga, joined to the main house and entered from its kuchiroka corridor. White sheet-iron walls, hachimaki band. Reg. 2014.

The Former Imazu Post Office in Takashima, Shiga, built in 1936, is a cottage-style building with an arched porch, stucco walls and well-preserved interior fittings.

A 2.4-square-meter well shelter from the 1920s in Nagahama, Shiga, open on all sides, with a well, a washing area and an old hook under the ridge beam.

An 1865 yakuimon gate at a doctor's home in Nagahama, Shiga, 2.6 meters wide and unusually deep, with board doors, strap fittings and carved beam ends.

Built in 1827 in Nagahama, Shiga, this doctor's house used its front rooms as a clinic, with a treatment bay linking to a 1920s wing. Registered in 2021.

A 1920s garage at a doctor's home in Nagahama, Shiga, with a hip-and-gable front, a lattice gable, a diagonal-barred glass transom and a plain gabled back.

A 1920s clinic wing in Nagahama, Shiga, keeping its reception counter and frosted glass in the exam room and dispensary, linking house and waiting room.

A late Edo earthen storehouse at a doctor's home in Nagahama, Shiga, with a separate fire roof on carved beam ends, white plaster walls and steel doors.

An early Meiji inpatient ward at a doctor's home in Nagahama, Shiga, with two six-mat rooms per floor and a curved ceiling and hanging alcove upstairs.

Built in 1868 as a retirement cottage in Nagahama, Shiga, and made a clinic waiting room in the 1920s, it keeps a formal room with a round window and bark post.

An early Showa inpatient ward in Nagahama, Shiga, with red bengara woodwork, one ten-mat room on each floor, an earthen passage and an upstairs toilet.

A 4.2-square-meter Showa-era toilet building in Nagahama, Shiga, with carved brackets, red checkerboard floor tiles and a different ceiling in each stall.

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