Former Hosa Bunko Repository

Two Storehouses Joined into One Book Store

The Former Hosa Bunko Repository (蓬左文庫旧書庫) is the store for books handed down in the Owari Tokugawa family of 1935 in Tokugawacho, Higashi Ward, Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture, and was registered as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property (structure) on October 7, 2014 (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

The Agency records a two-storey timber building, partly reinforced concrete, with a tiled roof and a building area of 230 square metres, moved and altered in 2004; registration number 23-0407.

Two Storehouses Joined into One

The former repository of the Hosa Bunko is a two-storey timber building designed by Yoshimoto Yoshio, who joined two storehouses that stood on the estate into a single store for furnishings (Agency for Cultural Affairs). The roof rests on king-post trusses and the outer walls are mortared right up to the roof boards.

For many years it served as the book store of the Hosa Bunko, the library of books handed down in the Owari Tokugawa family (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

Why It Was Registered

The Agency registered it as a model of design.

What to Look For

Look for the way two storehouses were joined and the walls mortared up to the roof (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

Visiting

It is owned by Nagoya City (Agency for Cultural Affairs). According to the Aichi Prefecture tourism site, Tokugawaen is open from 9:30 to 17:30 (last entry 17:00), closed on Mondays (open on public holidays) and from December 29 to January 1; admission is 300 yen for adults and free for junior high school students and younger; tel. 052-935-8988. The six registered structures are introduced together on the Tokugawaen page.