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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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ShigaArt & Crafts
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.
ShigaArchitectureOtsu
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.
ShigaArchitecture
ShigaArchitectureOtsu
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.
ShigaMuseumsOmihachiman
Azuchi Castle Archaeological Museum
The centre of research reconstructing Azuchi Castle; the ongoing argument about its form is itself the exhibition.
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.
Nagahama
Kannon Villages of Kohoku
Where villagers, not monks, have kept the temples open and the images safe for centuries - an unusual form of custodianship.
Higashiomi
The Three Mountain Temples of Koto
Three ancient temples along one mountain foot; the halls that escaped Nobunaga's burnings are National Treasures.
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.
Nagahama
Shrine Cabinets of Kohoku
The cabinets that house the Kannon images survive village by village - the container itself a work of craft.
ShigaMuseumsRitto
Ritto Museum
An Edo farmhouse moved into its grounds, alongside the Buddhist images the surrounding villages kept.