Hosenji Temple Shoin (Former Hattori Family Residence Shoin)

A Sukiya-Style Shoin Moved to a Temple

The Hosenji Temple Shoin (Former Hattori Family Residence Shoin) (寳泉寺書院（旧服部家住宅書院）) is a shoin in the sukiya style of the Meiji period in Ikefucho, Tsushima City, Aichi Prefecture, and was registered as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property (structure) on October 23, 2008 (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

The Agency records a single-storey timber building with a tiled roof and a building area of 101 square metres, moved here in 1930; registration number 23-0310.

Rooms of Bark-Edged Posts and Polished Logs

The shoin of Hosenji was originally the shoin of the Hattori family residence and was moved here in 1930; it stands in the north-east corner of the precinct, linked by corridors to the main hall and priests' quarters across the garden to the south (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

It measures 15 by 6.1 metres under a hip-and-gable roof of pantiles, with a formal room, an anteroom and a tea room in a row from east to west and a veranda on three sides (Agency for Cultural Affairs). Bark-edged posts and polished-log rails make it a carefully built shoin in the sukiya style.

Why It Was Registered

The Agency registered it as a model of design.

What to Look For

Look for the rooms with bark-edged posts and polished-log rails and the veranda on three sides (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

Visiting

It is owned by Hosenji Temple (Agency for Cultural Affairs). No official information on public access was found.