Hino Family Residence Storehouse and Detached Room
North-west of the main house, a long east-west storehouse joins the dwelling through a detached room. The storehouse, or nandogura, is the oldest surviving building on the whole estate, put up around 1702 in the fifteenth year of the Genroku era.
It owes its survival to chance and care alike. When a great fire swept the area in 1770, the seventh year of the Meiwa era, this kura escaped the flames, and it has stood ever since as the family's link to its earliest years in Fukase, Kōda-chō, Aki-Takata.
The kura measures about 22 metres along its ridge, a substantial two-storey plaster building, and was moved to its present position in the early Taishō period. The detached room beside it, also of the early Taishō years, holds two six-mat rooms and a boarded space ringed by a veranda.
Why It Matters
The pair was registered on 17 November 2015 for its role in the historic landscape. Because the storehouse predates every other building here, it carries particular weight within the group of eight, standing for the seventeenth-century origins of the Hino family, a household formerly surnamed Nakamura.
The building's scale is matched by its detail. Deep eaves are carried on angled struts, and the long walls are finished in plaster laid on thickly, a treatment meant to guard the stored goods and to withstand weather and fire.
The detached room offers a lighter counterpoint. Its open plan and encircling veranda make it a place of some ease against the massive closed form of the kura it serves.
What to Look For
The long plastered wall of the storehouse is the thing to see, especially where it stretches against the open fields to the north. The angled struts under the eaves repay a close look, since they show how such depth of roof was held up.
Reading the two parts together is part of the pleasure: the sealed, fire-surviving kura and the airy detached room express storage and living side by side. From a distance the pale wall marks the historic heart of the compound.
The residence is private, so neither the storehouse nor the detached room is open inside; both are best seen from the road and surrounding land. Visitors wanting an accessible historic site nearby can walk the ruins of Yoshida-Kōriyama Castle or visit the Aki-Takata City Museum of History and Folklore.
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Q&A
- Why is this building important?
- The storehouse dates from about 1702 and is the oldest structure on the estate, having survived a great fire in 1770.
- What is the detached room?
- A lighter early-Taishō structure of two six-mat rooms and a boarded space ringed by a veranda, joined to the storehouse.
- How big is the storehouse?
- It runs about 22 metres along its ridge as a two-storey plaster kura, with deep eaves on angled struts.
- Is it open to visitors?
- No. The residence is private, but the buildings can be seen from the road.
Basic Information
| Name | Hino Family Residence Storehouse and Detached Room / 日野家住宅納戸倉及び離れ |
|---|---|
| Location | 172 Kō and 172 Otsu (merged), Fukase, Kōda-chō, Aki-Takata, Hiroshima |
| Category | Registered Tangible Cultural Property (building) |
| Registered | 17 November 2015 (registration no. 34-0151) |
| Structure | Two-storey plaster kura and single-storey timber room, tiled roofs, floor area approx. 199 m² |
| Built | storehouse around 1702 (Genroku 15), moved early Taishō; detached room early Taishō (1912 to 1918) |
| Access | Privately owned; not generally open to the public |
References
- 国指定文化財等データベース（文化庁） — 日野家住宅納戸倉及び離れ
- https://kunishitei.bunka.go.jp/heritage/detail/101/00010894
- 安芸高田市 — 日野家住宅
- https://www.akitakata.jp/ja/shisei/section/kyouiku/shisekibunkazai/cultural_asset/r899/
- 文化遺産オンライン — 日野家住宅主屋
- https://bunka.nii.ac.jp/heritages/detail/276956
Last verified: 2026.07.03