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滋賀県 · Art & museums

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.

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Former Toyosato Elementary School

豊郷町湖東

Vories's 'finest school in the East'; up the stair rail, the hare and the tortoise change position step by step.

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Yasu Dotaku Museum

野洲市湖南

Where Japan's largest bronze bell was found - 134 cm tall - and where 24 were once buried together, for reasons still argued.

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Kusatsu-juku Honjin

草津市湖南

The official inn where the two great highways divide, surviving intact - with the register of who slept there and when.

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Samegai-juku

米原市湖北

A spring-fed stream runs before every house on the old highway, its underwater flowers marking the water's purity.

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Taga Taisha

多賀町湖東

Hideyoshi endowed it praying for his mother's life; its steep stone bridge and study garden are designated scenic.

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Shirahige Shrine

高島市湖西

A vermilion gate standing in the lake itself; water and gate alone complete the composition.

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Kabata of Harie

高島市湖西

Spring water piped into each kitchen and used in strict order - drinking, washing, then carp - the plan of the house set by water.

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Hino Merchants and Sajiki Windows

日野町湖東

Windows cut into garden walls so the family could watch the festival floats - a whole town designed as seating.

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Tea Fields and Kilns of Koka

甲賀市湖南

The valley they dug clay from and the hills they grow tea on lie side by side - two industries in one terrain.

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Buddhist Implements of Otsu

大津市湖南

Serving the demand of Mt Hiei and Kyoto, workshops here still handle single stages of the trade.

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Hikone Butsudan

彦根市湖東

Armourers turned to altars in peacetime; seven separate trades now build each one.

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Shigaraki Tanuki

甲賀市湖南

Spread nationwide after an imperial visit; each of the eight things the badger carries stands for a virtue.

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Inner Lakes of Biwa

近江八幡市湖東

Reed beds between lake and land; the cut reeds become blinds and roofs, tying landscape directly to craft.

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Shrine Cabinets of Kohoku

長浜市湖北

The cabinets that house the Kannon images survive village by village - the container itself a work of craft.

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Omi Merchant Museum

東近江市湖東

On the trading method of the Omi merchants, read through their ledgers and the poles they carried goods on.

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Ritto Museum

栗東市湖南

An Edo farmhouse moved into its grounds, alongside the Buddhist images the surrounding villages kept.

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Castle Town of Hikone

彦根市湖東

Townhouses along the outer moat, their eaves and wall colours realigned in recent years to recover the Edo scale.

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Reed Screens of Omi

近江八幡市湖東

Lakeside reeds cut and woven into screens and thatch - wetland management and craft as a single job.