Kankyo Mirin Residence Main House

A Shoin-Style House with a Western Room Upstairs

The Kankyo Mirin Residence Main House (甘強味淋住宅主屋) is a Japanese-style house between the office and the factory of 1923 in Shiro, Kanie Town, Ama District, Aichi Prefecture, and was registered as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property (structure) on November 10, 2005 (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

The Agency records a two-storey timber building with a tiled roof and a building area of 272 square metres, enlarged and altered in 1937; registration number 23-0207.

A Shoin-Style House with Modern Touches

The main house of the Kankyo Mirin residence, a two-storey Japanese-style house of 1923 enlarged in 1937, stands between the office and the factory (Agency for Cultural Affairs). Hip-and-gable and pantiled on an east-west ridge, it is entered from the west gable, has a tea room joined on the east, and an extension along the north.

Built of fine timber in a refined shoin style, it also has a Western-style room upstairs and wide openings, showing how houses were lived in at the time (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

Why It Was Registered

The Agency registered it as a model of design.

What to Look For

Look for the shoin-style rooms and the Western room and wide openings upstairs (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

Visiting

The owner is not listed in the Agency record. No official information on public access was found. The former head office, factory, residence and storehouse are introduced together on the Kankyo Mirin page.