Edo
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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.
Late Edo townhouse of the Nunoso hemp-cloth merchant on the Nakasendo in Hikone, Shiga, with curved eave brackets and wide upper lattice windows. Registered in 2013.
Smallest of three late Edo storehouses behind the Nunoso cloth shop in Takamiya, Hikone, Shiga, its plastered eaves still showing each purlin end. Registered 2013.
Above the main hall of Kawaraya-ji in Shiga, this small 1700 founder's hall honours the monk who revived the temple and shows the Zen style at close range.
Built in 1725, this sutra hall at Kawaraya-ji holds an octagonal revolving scripture case and bold shrimp-beam framing. It is the one building listed for design merit.
Linked to the main hall by a covered corridor, this mid-1640s hall at Kawaraya-ji is thought to be its former main hall, marked by the raigō pillars still at its altar.
Before the main hall, this mid-1640s bell tower at Kawaraya-ji rises on sixteen-faceted posts splayed outward for strength. Hanging its bell marked the temple's revival.
The smallest of Kawaraya-ji's seven listed buildings, this 1818 hall of barely three square metres packs full Zen detail around Binzuru, the arhat rubbed for healing.
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 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 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 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.
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.
The Kuzuno Joki Family Residence Storehouse is a late Edo kura in Otsu, older than the 1843 main house, valued for its careful details and charred-board walls.
The Kuzuno Joki Family Residence Main House in Otsu is an 1843 thatched home of the lay leaders of Myooin temple, with a formal shikidai step by its earthen door.
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.