Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Shiga

The Kuzuno Joman Family Residence Main House in Otsu is a Tenpo-era thatched house of the family that ran Myooin temple's office, prized for its rare passage plan.

Guzeiji Temple Front Gate in Higashiomi, Shiga, is a four-legged gate of 1721, 3.9 metres wide, with a dragon carved above the lintel. It was registered in 2021.

Guseiji Temple Sutra Repository in Higashiomi, Shiga, is an earth-plastered scripture store of 1835 under a pyramidal tiled roof, registered nationally in 2007.

Guzeiji Temple Priests' Quarters in Higashiomi, Shiga, is a timber temple house of 1805 covering 310 square metres, with a richly worked gable end. Registered 2021.

Guseiji Temple Priests' Quarters Gate in Higashiomi, Shiga, is an 8.8-metre late Edo gatehouse with rooms built into its length, registered nationally in 2007.

Guzeiji Temple Entrance Hall in Higashiomi, Shiga, roofs its threshold porch in cypress bark and gathers its carving there. It was registered nationally in 2021.

Guseiji Temple Bell Tower in Higashiomi, Shiga, is a one-bay belfry of 1660, open on all four sides on a stone podium and registered as a cultural property in 2007.

Guzeiji Temple Bell Tower in Higashiomi, Shiga, stands on a tall stone podium and is thought to be the oldest building in the precinct. It was registered in 2021.

Guseiji Temple Drum Tower in Higashiomi, Shiga, hangs its drum in an upper chamber and reads as a two-tiered turret from the road. It was registered in 2007.

Guseiji Temple Rest House in Higashiomi, Shiga, is a two-storey timber building of 1858 where worshippers rested and took tea, registered nationally in 2007.

Guzeiji Temple Middle Gate in Higashiomi, Shiga, is a late Edo gate carrying citrus and well-frame crests linked to the Ii family of Hikone. Registered in 2021.

Guseiji Temple Main Hall in Higashiomi, Shiga, is a tiled Shin Buddhist hall of 1753, 22 metres wide, registered as a national cultural property in 2007.

The former 130th Bank branch of 1900 in Nagahama, Shiga, a storehouse-style bank with Western details, is called Kurokabe, the Black Wall, for its black plaster.

The Koizumi Family Residence Rear Gate and Wall of 1938 pair a bracket-arm gate with a 22-meter wall of boat planks and lattice, its timber painted red with bengara.

The Koizumi Family Residence Large Storehouse is a late Edo two-storey kura with red-painted window hoods, a broad plaster band and boat-plank lower walls.

The Koizumi Family Residence Front Gate and Front Wall, of about 1907, pair a 3.8-meter yakui-mon gate with a 19-meter plastered wall with boat planks at its base.

The Koizumi Family Residence Rice Storehouse is a small late Edo kura with a separate oki-yane roof, copper hoods over its door and windows and a plain inside.

The Koizumi Family Residence Koyagura Storehouse of 1844 has plaster up to the eaves, boat-plank lower walls and stonework inside for work with a water channel.

The Koizumi Family Residence Zashiki Wing is a reception wing of about 1866, moved in 1907, with an eight-mat room, tokonoma, flat shoin and a room by a storehouse.

The Koizumi Family Residence Lower Privy and Middle Gate, of about 1915, divide the front garden from the inner courtyard with fine timber worked in sukiya style.

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