ShigaMuseumsOtsu
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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ShigaArt & CraftsOtsu
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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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.
ShigaArt & CraftsKoka
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.
ShigaMuseumsHikone
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.
ShigaArchitectureOmihachiman
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.
ShigaMuseumsNagahama
Nagahama Hikiyama Museum
Floats built as stages on which children perform kabuki, covered in lacquer, metal fittings and embroidered hangings.
ShigaArt & CraftsNagahama
Doganji Kannon
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
Where villagers, not monks, have kept the temples open and the images safe for centuries - an unusual form of custodianship.
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The Three Mountain Temples of Koto
Three ancient temples along one mountain foot; the halls that escaped Nobunaga's burnings are National Treasures.
Aisho
Omi Jofu Ramie Cloth
Fine summer ramie whose kasuri patterns are made by pressing dye onto the threads with a comb.
ShigaArchitectureToyosato
Former Toyosato Elementary School
Vories's 'finest school in the East'; up the stair rail, the hare and the tortoise change position step by step.
ShigaMuseumsYasu
Yasu Dotaku Museum
Where Japan's largest bronze bell was found - 134 cm tall - and where 24 were once buried together, for reasons still argued.
ShigaArchitectureKusatsu
Kusatsu-juku Honjin
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
A spring-fed stream runs before every house on the old highway, its underwater flowers marking the water's purity.