Old house

Korekiyo was Sanyo's grandfather and was named Matajuro, and in his later years he went by the name of Toruo. While running a dyeing shop, he studied waka poetry under Masugi Toyasu, and wrote works such as "Azuma Kikou," "Takazumi Kikou," and "Yoshino Kikou." His sons Shunsui, Shunkaze, and Kyohei were all such talented people that the Confucian scholar Suga Chazan of Bingo Province praised them as "three brothers with the same spirit." Sanyo, the eldest son of Shunsui, often visited his uncle Shunkaze, who was a good friend of his. The building consists of a main house with a multi-layered roof, a hip-and-gable roof, and a tiled roof, and a detached parlor adjacent to the road, both of which are made of plastered wood. In the backyard, there is a monument to a poem by Sanyo, who was 45 years old, carved into the wall. There are many things to see, such as the extremely thick plasterwork, which is a characteristic of merchant houses in the Edo period.