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Shiga Museum of Art
The first public museum in Japan to make art brut a collecting pillar - work by makers who never trained, taken seriously.
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MIHO MUSEUM
By I.M. Pei, architect of the Louvre pyramid: a tunnel bored through a mountain and a suspension bridge, modelled on a Chinese vision of paradise.
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Sagawa Art Museum
Three pavilions seeming to float on water, including an underground tea room designed by the fifteenth Raku master himself.
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Otsu City Museum of History
Built around Otsu-e folk paintings and the Buddhist art of Mt Hiei, in the town that served both.
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Otsu-e Folk Paintings
Mass-produced roadside paintings sold to travellers, drawn fast to fixed subjects - later hailed by Yanagi as folk art.
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Enryakuji Konpon Chudo
The Tendai head temple, where the icon sits below the worshippers so the two meet at eye level - a section found nowhere else.
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Ishiyamadera
Halls built on a mass of wollastonite rock; its pagoda is the oldest of its type, and Murasaki is said to have begun Genji here.
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Hiyoshi Taisha
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Hachiman Moat, Omihachiman
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
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
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
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
The centre of research reconstructing Azuchi Castle; the ongoing argument about its form is itself the exhibition.
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Gokasho Merchant Houses
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
Residents bought a black-plastered bank about to be demolished and rebuilt the town around glass - a case study nationwide.