Shōwa
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The former Nishi-Oshitate National School in Higashiomi, Shiga is a 1943 wooden schoolhouse with a courtyard plan and red pantile roof, registered in 1998.
Kohoku Library in Nagahama, Shiga: a 1937 farmers' hall by Kinomoto Station with arched windows and buttresses, home to a private library founded in 1902.
An early Showa two-story storehouse in Saikyoji's private quarters in Otsu, taller than its neighbor and with plastered eaves over hinged doors. Registered in 2001.
An early Showa sukiya room behind the Guest Hall at Saikyoji in Otsu, sharing the Kanrantei's plan but with white walls and red-oxide posts. Registered 2001.
Saikyoji Temple Naishika Guest Hall, built around 1930 as the chief abbot's office, pairs light open eaves with a finely chamfered ceiling in two rooms by a pond.
Saikyoji Temple Naishika Storehouse is a small early Showa clay store in the chief abbot's section, with double doors under a plastered canopy and a boarded base.
Saikyoji Temple Naishika Priests' Quarters, of about 1930, was the chief abbot's home: sitting rooms south, kitchen north, and a lattice gable matching his office.
Saikyoji Temple Naishika Connecting Corridor, of about 1930, links the Shoin to the chief abbot's office. Only 3 shaku wide, it shows curved tie beams and struts.
Saikyoji Temple Water Pavilion, built in 1944 before the Main Hall, gives a 4.4-square-metre font a heavy tiled roof, deep eaves, coffers and a dragon spout.
Saikyoji Temple Bathhouse, built in 1931 for the monks, is reinforced concrete cast to copy timber posts, rails, brackets, bargeboards and a gable pendant.
The Ryosui Hall of Shiga University in Hikone, built in 1938 as an alumni hall designed by Vories, has cream walls, Spanish tiles and chequered tiles by its doors.
Shojukan Shinryo of 1933 pairs a mock coved ceiling with a four-tap sink in one twelve-mat room whose use the register calls unknown. Registered in 2021.
Shojukan Nagaya of the early Showa era uses the perimeter fence as its only wall, with heavy reused posts inside and an L-shaped tiled roof. Registered in 2021.
Built about 1935 in Shimoisshiki-cho, Higashiomi, Shiga, this munamon gate has a tiled roof with copper edges and a gentle mukuri curve. Carpenter: Kimura Tahee.
A late Edo townhouse in Kawara, Hikone, Shiga, refaced in 1934 as a post office with tiled walls, a mortar cornice and a pediment. Registered in 2011; exterior only.
The ritual storehouse of Tarobogu Aga Shrine in Higashiomi, Shiga, built in 1938, is a plastered two-storey storehouse facing the Chorakuden across the steps.
The middle gate of Tarobogu Aga Shrine in Higashiomi, Shiga, built in 1934 on a landing of the steps, is an open gate made entirely of granite with a stone roof.
The Chorakuden of Tarobogu Aga Shrine in Higashiomi, Shiga, a 1930 meeting hall below the cliff, has a cusped-gable entrance, a stair wing and a basement kitchen.
The copper torii of Tarobogu Aga Shrine in Higashiomi, Shiga, put up in 1957 before the rock cleft to the main hall, symbolizes the old worship of sacred rocks.
The Fudo Myoo pavilion of Tarobogu Aga Shrine in Higashiomi, Shiga, built in 1930 entirely of granite, has even its ridge and end tiles carved in stone.