Edo
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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 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 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 Main House in Higashiomi, Shiga, is a two-storey house of about 1844, moved here in 1907, with a four-room plan under a wide gable roof.
The Koizumi Family Residence Tatsumi Storehouse of 1844, moved twice, has a separate oki-yane roof and a door opening straight into the reception wing's side room.
Saiganji Temple Main Hall in Omihachiman, Shiga: a thatched Jodo Buddhist hall of the mid-Edo period with a farmhouse-like roof ringed by tiled lean-tos.
The 1842 tomb of founder Shinsei Shonin on high ground west of Saikyoji's Main Hall in Otsu, with a pyramidal roof and carved monkeys; the oldest of 18 registered.
The gate of Jisseibo, a sub-temple of Saikyoji in Sakamoto, Otsu, is a late Edo yakuimon gate that, with the anoshu stone walls beside it, frames the approach.
Shojukan Main House of 1814 is a thatched farmhouse-type merchant residence in Gokasho, registered in 2021, notable for a rare doubled tie-beam roof frame.