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The 1940 outer worship hall at Omi Jingu in Otsu, 157 square metres, where visitors pray. A stone stair is driven through its central bay beneath a curved gable.
The 1944 first torii at Omi Jingu in Otsu, 7.3 metres wide. A textbook myojin gate with curved upper members, inward-leaning round posts and a squared tie beam.
The 1940 second torii at Omi Jingu in Otsu, 6.4 metres wide, standing at the head of the approach steps. Visitors turn right here for the tower gate above.
Omi Shrine Middle Gate opens the innermost enclosure at the top of the stairway corridor. At 7 square metres it is the smallest of the shrine's 40 properties.
Omi Shrine Chozuya stands beside the steps to the gate, 18 square metres under a gabled roof, its corner posts leaning inward with braces at each angle.
Omi Shrine Imperial Envoy Entrance is a 22-square-metre porch for the emperor's messenger, crowned by a curved gable and divided within into floor and corridor.
Omi Shrine Inner Precinct Corridor, South closes the south of the courtyard with eight bays of latticed walkway, mirroring the northern arm at 129 square metres.
Omi Shrine Inner Precinct Corridor, North closes the courtyard's north side, absorbing the drop between the two worship halls with a flight of steps inside it.
Omi Shrine Inner Worship Hall of 1940 stands five bays by three on a stepped terrace, narrowing the route from the inner enclosure towards the sanctuary above.
Omi Shrine Climbing Corridor rises three bays from the Inner Worship Hall to the Middle Gate. Its curved ridge ties the level roofs above and below together.
Omi Shrine Noritosha is a single open bay in front of the sanctuary. Both canopy and deck, this 13-square-metre space is cited as the mark of Omi-zukuri.
Omi Shrine Main Hall, built in 1940, is a three-bay nagare-zukuri sanctuary under cypress bark. Registered in 1998, it heads the shrine's list of 40 properties.
Omi Shrine Wing Corridor, South runs four bays from the Middle Gate, with its two end bays walled in as a provisional room for preparing food offerings.
Omi Shrine Wing Corridor, North runs four bays from the Middle Gate, closing the east face of the innermost enclosure. Its rafters are left deliberately uncurved.
Omi Shrine Side Torii Gate marks the side approach at 5.4 metres wide. Its completion rite on 30 December 1940 closed the first construction campaign.
Omi Shrine Connecting Corridor runs three open bays from the Middle Gate. Its gable tucks under the sanctuary canopy, setting the rhythm of the stacked roofs.
The Toriimoto Station building of the Omi Railway in Hikone, Shiga, built in 1931 by an old Nakasendo post town, has a broken half-hipped roof and Western touches.
A small 1943 well house beside the kitchen of the Yamanaka merchant home in Hino, Shiga, open at one end, with a room for a 1943 boiler at the other end.
The front gate of the Yamanaka merchant home in Hino, Shiga: a low 1936 munamon with a stone bridge and 47 metres of roofed fence, kept below the eaves of the house.
The 1936 main house of the Yamanaka merchant family in Hino, Shiga, registered for a corridor plan dividing Japanese and Western rooms; now the museum's main hall.