投稿日：2023年07月07日
The Honmachi street starts from the north end of the Tonomachi Street, and leads towards north.
In the early Edo period (1600-1868) document named “Tsuwano Chuuryou On-nawa Estate Register” this are was named “本市” but on the map of the Genroku period (1688-1704), it was already named Honmachi Street. At the time the Honmachi districts 1 was called Kami-no-ichi (上ノ町), District 2 was Nakanoichi (中ノ町) and District 3 was Shimoichi (下市).
There was a square in the Honmachi area, which was separated from the samurai Tonomachi area by the Somon gate and the Oudobu (water channel). In this small plaza fire fighting equipment storage and an official bulletin board was built. The “Tsuwano castle town Samurai estate detailed map” map from the Genroku era (1688 -1704 ) and the “Town estate big map” from the Kyouhou era (1716-1736) already have the Traditional Store of Fundoya Shichiemon and Takatsuya Ito Hakusekido‘s name and location marked, which still stand today. The economic ups and downs of local industries caused a few changes in the types and names of the shops, but the basic structure of the castle town remained in the same way, which it self is of great value.
In the fire of 6th year of Kaei era (1853) half of the castle town burned down, from the palace of the domain lord, through samurai houses all the way to the merchant houses in the Honmachi area. The remaining buildings were mostly built after this fire, thus 165 years old.
Other notable buildings in the area:
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本町通り
殿町通りの北詰めの交差点から北に続く通りを本町通りという。江戸初期の「津和野中領御縄町屋敷帳」ではこの辺りを本市といわれていたが、町家が完成した元禄期頃の絵図には本町通りの名が見られる。当時は本町１丁目は「上ノ町」、２丁目は「中ノ町」、３丁目は「下市」と呼ばれていた。
惣門と大溝により殿町と区切られた本町通り側には広場が設けられ、高札場や消防器具などが設置されていた。元禄期の「津和野城下侍屋敷詳細絵図」や享保期の「町屋敷大絵図」にみられる分銅屋や高津屋などの屋号のいくつかが今日まで残っているが、その後の町の経済の盛衰により商家の形態も大きく変貌している。その一方で町家の地割の多くがその現状を今に留めていることは歴史的にも貴重である。
嘉永６年（1853）の大火により城下の大半が焼失、藩邸をはじめ武家、商家建物なども失われた。現在残る建物の多くが、嘉永の大火後の建築である。
津和野町伝統文化活性化協議会、平成２４年３月発行