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Yoshijima Family Residence

Gifu · Takayama · Architecture

Japanese name: 吉島家住宅

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Yoshijima Family Residence
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WHAT TO DOYoshijima Family Residence

A brewer's house next door, its slender members latticed and lit from a high window so the frame reads as pattern.

WHEREGifu

Hida · Takayama

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A brewer's house next door, its slender members latticed and lit from a high window so the frame reads as pattern.

About this place

The Yoshijima Family Residence is an old private house in Daishincho, Takayama, Gifu Prefecture. It is a building making up the Takayama Shimoninomachi-Daishincho Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings, is designated an Important Cultural Property of Japan, and is also included among the component cultural properties of the Agency for Cultural Affairs-certified Japan Heritage "The Skills and Spirit of Hida Craftsmen - 1,300 Years Passed Down with Wood." It was built after the great fire of 1875 (Meiji 8) as the residence of the Yoshijima family, wealthy merchants who ran a sake brewing business and more in Takayama.

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Key facts

Founded / opened:1907 Architect / artist:Isaburo Nishida Highlights / collection:Lattice-shaped beam framework, Light from high windows Genre:Architecture

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