Tsuwano’s Tangible Cultural Property: Traditional House of Kawada Family

Built around the middle of the Meiji period (1868-1912), together with the Traditional House of Zaima Family, the Traditional House of Kawada Family is one of the representative buildings of the old town area. In the Meiji period it was operated as a pawn shop, and later in the Taisho (1912-1926) it became a furniture store. The furniture was manufactured in the hongura(本蔵, the largest earthen wall storehouse). The building is a two story wooden structure with a wide shop front  and three windows with small eaves on the south ookabe wall (大壁, wall bearing no exposed pillars). A central garden is surrounded by the traditional tatami room, the earthen store house, and the hanare (離れ, detached living space).

Currently a Japanese Confectionery Shop, “San-shou-dou Kashin-an” is using the building.

三松堂　菓心庵

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⑧旧河田家具店（三松堂　菓心庵）

明治３０年代中端に建築され、財間家と町家の双璧をなす。明治期には質屋、大正に入って家具店を営み、本蔵などで家具の製造を行っていたという。店舗兼住宅は木造瓦葺二階建で、正面を大きく開口し、南面の大壁には庇付の窓を三ヶ所有する。座敷に面し中庭を設け、庭の蔵、離れで周囲を取り込んでいる。

津和野町伝統文化活性化協議会、平成２４年３月発行