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滋賀県 · Art & museums

Hiyoshi Taisha

大津市湖南

A shrine form unique to this site, with a raised underfloor space and eaves extending on three sides.

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Lake Biwa Canal

大津市湖南

Designed by a 23-year-old engineer: a tunnel bored through the mountains and an incline that hauled boats up the slope on rails.

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Mitsuhashi Setsuko Museum

大津市湖南

A painter who lost her dominant arm to illness and went on painting left-handed until her death at 35.

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Ukimido, Katata

大津市湖南

A hall projecting out over the lake, drawn by Hiroshige - a composition made of nothing but water and architecture.

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Shigaraki Ware

甲賀市湖南

One of the six ancient kilns; feldspar in the coarse clay bursts white through the surface, and fire and ash mark each pot differently.

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Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park

甲賀市湖南

Studio, gallery and research on one hill, hosting foreign artists to work in Shigaraki clay for over thirty years.

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Hikone Castle

彦根市湖東

A National Treasure keep that combines three kinds of gable to make a small tower look far more complex.

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Hikone Castle Museum

彦根市湖東

The lord's palace rebuilt in timber to hold the Ii family's red-lacquered armour and its Noh masks and robes.

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Genkyuen

彦根市湖東

A daimyo garden laid out so the castle keep appears across the pond - the fortress used as garden scenery.

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Hachiman Moat, Omihachiman

近江八幡市湖東

A canal dug to link town and lake; residents stopped it being filled in, and the whole quarter is now protected.

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Vories Buildings in Omihachiman

近江八幡市湖東

A missionary who came to teach English and ended up designing 1,600 buildings; this town was his base.

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La Collina Omihachiman

近江八幡市湖東

Terunobu Fujimori planted the roof with grass and studded the walls with charcoal - an experiment in blurring plant and building.

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Azuchi Castle Ruins

近江八幡市湖東

Nobunaga's castle, the first with a true keep; a six-metre stairway drives straight up the hill as a demonstration of power.

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Azuchi Castle Archaeological Museum

近江八幡市湖東

The centre of research reconstructing Azuchi Castle; the ongoing argument about its form is itself the exhibition.

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Gokasho Merchant Houses

東近江市湖東

The home houses of merchants who traded nationwide under a creed of benefit to seller, buyer and society alike.

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Kurokabe Square

長浜市湖北

Residents bought a black-plastered bank about to be demolished and rebuilt the town around glass - a case study nationwide.

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Nagahama Hikiyama Museum

長浜市湖北

Floats built as stages on which children perform kabuki, covered in lacquer, metal fittings and embroidered hangings.

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Doganji Kannon

長浜市湖北

One of only seven National Treasure eleven-headed Kannon; villagers buried it in the earth to save it from war, and still keep it.

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Kannon Villages of Kohoku

長浜市湖北

Where villagers, not monks, have kept the temples open and the images safe for centuries - an unusual form of custodianship.

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Hogonji, Chikubushima

長浜市湖北

A Momoyama gate and hall clamped to the slope of an island, extended and relocated until the architecture grips the hillside.

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Keiunkan

長浜市湖北

A guest house built for the Meiji emperor, its garden by Ogawa Jihei, who defined the modern Japanese garden.

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The Three Mountain Temples of Koto

東近江市湖東

Three ancient temples along one mountain foot; the halls that escaped Nobunaga's burnings are National Treasures.

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Eigenji

東近江市湖東

A Zen temple strung along a gorge, its thatched hall reached by a path that uses the rock itself.

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Omi Jofu Ramie Cloth

愛荘町湖東

Fine summer ramie whose kasuri patterns are made by pressing dye onto the threads with a comb.