Taishō
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A 1910 farmhouse in Nagahama, Shiga, with a six-room plan, a lacquered reception room facing an Edo-period garden and a silkworm loft upstairs. Registered in 2025.
A 1916 guest pavilion at the Akada house in Nagahama, Shiga, with connected tatami rooms, a three-mat study, a round window and a bark-covered red pine alcove post.
Main building of 1918 of the Omi Sanatorium in Omihachiman, Shiga, funded by Mary Tucker, with half-octagonal wings and wide windows for light and air.
Built around 1919 as part of a Tokyo villa and moved to Mount Hiei in 1928, Takeda Goichi's shoin-style guesthouse is usually closed but opens for temple events.
A 2.3-metre hira-karamon in the wall behind the Daishoin, built around 1919 in Tokyo and moved to Mount Hiei in 1928 with the house. Note its flower-lattice transom.
East of the worship hall at Otori Shrine in Koka, Shiga, this 1919 dance stage is one bay square, with slatted panels on three sides and a pine painted inside.
Built in 1919 southwest of the shrine buildings at Otori Shrine in Koka, Shiga, this 177 square metre office has a karahafu porch and a formal alcove room within.
Facing the kagura hall across the worship hall at Otori Shrine in Koka, Shiga, this 1919 hall for preparing offerings has an earth-floored entry and hinged shutters.
Built in 1919 before the main sanctuary of Otori Shrine in Koka, Shiga, this small hall doubles as a gate, with curved gables front and back and 66 m of fences.
The 1919 worship hall at Otori Shrine in Koka, Shiga, is open on all four sides, roofed in cypress bark and crowned inside by a double-coved coffered ceiling.
North of the offering hall at Otori Shrine in Koka, Shiga, this 1919 earthen storehouse keeps the mikoshi, with a deep plaster cornice and small round windows.
Designed by Kyoto architect Kameoka Suekichi, this 1919 vermilion gate at Otori Shrine in Koka, Shiga, reproduces medieval curves in its columns and rafters.
Built in 1924 at the gates of Taga Taisha in Shiga, this wooden inn sets an irimoya gable over a projecting porch. Registered in 2002 for the street it helps shape.
A two-storey earthen storehouse of about 1912 on the Kawasaki estate by the old Tokaido in Tehara, Ritto; the smallest of three, it adjoins the South Storehouse.
A 2-storey earthen storehouse of about 1912 by the old Tokaido in Tehara, Ritto, with a canopied west window; larger than the North Storehouse, its ridge sits lower.
A 2.4-square-meter well shelter from the 1920s in Nagahama, Shiga, open on all sides, with a well, a washing area and an old hook under the ridge beam.
A 1920s garage at a doctor's home in Nagahama, Shiga, with a hip-and-gable front, a lattice gable, a diagonal-barred glass transom and a plain gabled back.
A 1920s clinic wing in Nagahama, Shiga, keeping its reception counter and frosted glass in the exam room and dispensary, linking house and waiting room.
Former Shiga Bank Konan Branch in Koka, Shiga: a 1925 concrete bank on the Soma road with Ionic columns, a heavy entablature and an arched window over the door.
The Former Joki Clinic Stable in Maibara, Shiga, housed the horse a family of doctors used for house calls. Its hanging door has no threshold to trip a horse.