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I'm glad to intorduce an old town, Jinaimachi, Tondabayashi, Osaka, Japan as a national historic district and heritage site.

It takes 30 minutes from Osaka city to Tondabayashi station by Kintetsu railways. A 10-minutes walk will take you to the historic town.

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Former Sugiyama family residence, designated as an important national cultural heritage of Japan. The Kirie picture is produced by Mr. Yoshiyuki Kondo. All rights reserved.

Former Sugiyama Residence, National important cultural property

【Tourist guide to Jinaimachi town, Tondabayashi, a historic district and heritage site of Japan - Sugiyama residence, garden】

Attractions:
Sugiyama family was one of the old family who was involved in the founding of Jinaimachi town and the family flourished as a sake brewer throughout the Edo period. The ex. Sugiyama family residence is the oldest building among those merchants’ houses in Jinaimachi and it is the remains of a large merchant house of the mid-Edo period.

About 9 thousand people a year have visited the ex. Sugiyama family residence. Video presentations are available about the female poet of Tsuyuko Isonokami as well as the history of town development of Jinaimachi. Kirie artcraft works by Mr. Yoshiyuki Kondo are on display in the second floor.

Features of the building:
Among the traditional merchants’ houses in Jinaimachi, the building of ex. Sugiyama residence is the largest and oldest one characterized as an architecture of local farmer’s house of the mid 17th century in Minami-Kawachi region.

The site was comparable to one block of the village, that was about 3,300 square meters, now down to 1,300 square meters. The site consists of the two-story main building and three tatami rooms attached thereto extending to the east, two storehouses for sake cellar and rice granary, and the garden. The main house features a large four-layer roof. The main house consists of Sukiya Shoinzukuri style room with alcove called Oodoko-no-ma, tatami rooms (front side and back side), tea ceremony room and earthen floor called Doma of farmers’house style. Those interior decorations are attractive features such as wall paintings of the Kano school painter, an Indian ink landscape painting, sculpture in the transom, modern-looking spiral staircase which was renovated in the Meiji era, cooking stove restored in the earthen floor called Kamado. Number of roof tiles amounted to about 40,000 pieces, and half of them have been recycled after the dismantling repair.

Oku- Zasiki (above)
The building was extendxed about 270 years ago.
It is said that during her lifetime, Ms. Tsuyuko Isonokami lived in the room.

Well (left)
Sugiyama family flourished in the brewing industry

Tea ceremony room where Ms. Tsuyuko Isonokami favourably used.

It is said to be modeled after Kankyuu-an hermitage of Kyoto (Mushanokoji school).

A series of stepping stones,Sodegaki (partition wall made of bamboo) and Chouzubachi (washbasin) of Oku-Zashiki room,which can be seen from the second floor of Tsuno-ya building.

Sodegaki (partition wall made of bamboo) and Chouzubachi (washbasin)

Karesansui style gaeden
Storehouse for sake brewery seen over the garden.

You have good views of the garden by removing the pillar at the corner.

The rice granary has been opened as a museum.

Palanquin is on display in the rice granary.

Letters written by ms. Tsuyuko Isonokami have been in exhibition.

【Tourist guide to Jinaimachi town, Tondabayashi, a historic district and heritage site of Japan - Sugiyama residence,main building】

【Tourist guide to Jinaimachi town, Tondabayashi, a historic district and heritage site of Japan - Sugiyama residence, indoors and interior decorations】

【Tourist guide to Jinaimachi town, Tondabayashi, a historic district and heritage site of Japan - Sugiyama residence, garden】

【Tourist guide to Jinaimachi town, Tondabayashi, a historic district and heritage site of Japan - Sugiyama residence, kirie artcrafts by Mr. Yoshiyuki Kondo】

Jinaimachi Town Sightseeing Map（English)

Jinaimachi Town Sightseeing Map（Chinese）

Jinaimachi Town Sightseeing Map（Korean）

Information

National important cultural property
Designated in 1983

Open to the public (admission required)

Year built: 1644

Address:
Zip code 584-0033
Tondabayashi cho, 14-31, Tondabayashi city, Osaka Pref.
Phone: 0721-23-6117

About 15 minutes' walk from Tondabayashi Station or Tondabayashi Nishiguchi Station of Kintetsu Nagano line. Parking lots are available at Tondabayashi Municipal east parking newly opened in February 2014 (parking fee required) in the case of visiting by car.

Open Hours:
10:00 to 17:00
Closed:
Monday
December 28 to January 6.

Inquiry:
Cultural Property Division in Tondabayashi City Hall
Phone: 0721-25-1000 (ext. 508)

History:
Sugiyama family was the leading founder of Tondabayashi village among the eight founders. The family did business as Wataya. About 450 years ago, the family started involved in new development of the village and initially ran a cotton wholesaler. Then they started a brewing industry in the mid-Edo period and greatly prospered as he served as a head of the brewing industry in Kawachi region. The family went out of the business in the mid-Meiji era, facing a new liquor tax introduction as well as a lack of competition with the large-scale production areas such as Nada and Fushimi. The residence is the birthplace of Ms. Tsuyuko Isonokami, a female poet of Myojo school (Her real name was Takako Sugiyama, 1882ー1959)

Since the owner tried to sell the land and buildings to a real estate agent, Tondabayashi city decided to purchase them at 166 million yen in June 1983 to preserve the valuable cultural property. Thereafter dismantling repair was carried out at the cost of 230 million yen in two-and-a-half years. The earthen floor of the main house building was totally dismantled and the tatami rooms of the main house were half demolished at the time of repair. The property was designated as an important cultural property of the country on October 26, 1983 as a typical architecture of farmer’s house inMinami-Kawachi region.

Tondabayashi city has currently owned and managed the property and it has been open to the public since 1987. In Jinaimachi, the ex. Sugiyama residence designated as an important cultural property, ex. Tanaka residence registered as a tangible cultural property and Katsuma residence are open to the public inside the building. The Katsuma residence is now open to the public as an Italian restaurant from October 2012.

The ex. Sugiyama residence was used as a film location and shooting of the movie titled Maihime directed by Mr. Masahiro Shinoda in 1989, starring Hiromi Go was held.

Trade name:Wataya

Sugiyama family’s records:
Sugiyama family’s records have been in exhibition categorized as a " document of the village" and as a "document of the sake brewery" in the Kyoto University Museum.

Tour guide by volunteers:
Guided tour service by local volunteers is available for visitors in group. Advanced booking is required.

Please contact the Jinaimachi Visitor Center (Jinaimachi Kouryuukan) for inquiries.

Jinaimachi Kouryuukan,
Town Community Center
(Visitor Center)

Address
9-29, Tondabayashi-cho, Tondabayashi city, Osaka, 584-0033, Japan
TEL.+81-(0)721-26-0110
FAX.+81-(0)721-26-0110
open 10a.m. until 5 p.m.
closed on Monday