Tsuwano’s Tangible Cultural Property: Tawara Kasen Sake Brewery

The sake brewery that started business in the Kyouhou period (1716-1736),  but the current building was built at the beginning of the Meiji period (1868-1912). On the two sides of the shop a ishou-gura (clothes storehouse) and a dougu-gura (tools storehouse) was built. The shop is a two storey building with a wooden structure. The style of the roof is called kirizuma-zukuri with pantile roof tiles and a smaller roof attached along the facade of the building. The first floor has a big white facade and three mushi-ko-mado style windows. On both side one can see sode-udatsu, which are small walls jotting out of the surface, to prevent the spreading of fire from the neighbouring buildings.

The shop is hard-packed floor, and on the right of the counter a path leads to the back of the sake manufacturing place. The residence part of the building on the left has a center garden, and a visitor’s toilet remains, a fashionable show of wealth in the late 19 century. The painted old sugi wooden doors from the domain lord’s palace are still preserved on the premises. 

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俵屋華泉酒造

享保年間から続く造り酒屋で、明治初期の建築という。店舗の両脇に衣装蔵、道具蔵を配す。店舗は木造瓦葺二階建で、屋根は切妻造、正面に下屋庇を付け桟瓦葺としている。二階は大壁で虫龍窓を三カ所設け、両端に袖ウダツを付ける。

店舗は土間タタキ仕上げで、右手カウンター脇から奥の酒蔵へ通じる。左手奥の座敷は中庭に面し、他の町家同様に北側に来客用のトイレへ向かう渡り廊下を配す。座敷には旧津和野藩邸にあったとされる杉板戸が残っている。

津和野町伝統文化活性化協議会、平成２４年３月発行