A White Plastered Counting Room
The Former Hashihira Sake Brewery (Kamuro) Counting Room (旧橋平酒造店（醸室）帳場) is a plastered counting room in white with a black band under the eaves of the early Meiji period in Furukawa Nanokamachi, Osaki City, Miyagi Prefecture, and was registered as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property (structure) on February 26, 2021 (Agency for Cultural Affairs).
The Agency records a two-storey plastered building with an iron-sheet roof and a building area of 46 square metres; registration number 04-197.
A Plastered Counting Room
The former Hashihira Sake Brewery, now known as Kamuro, was a merchant house that ran a brewery and other trades in central Furukawa, Osaki, with its shop, counting room and main house in a row along the old Oshu Kaido road (Agency for Cultural Affairs). All date from the early Meiji period; they were repaired in 2005 and moved in 2020. According to the Tohoku Tourism Promotion Organization, the brewery was founded in 1790.
The counting room of the former Hashihira brewery adjoins the north of the shop, a two-storey plastered building of the early Meiji period with a separate iron-sheet roof set over it, and the lean-to from the shop runs along its front (Agency for Cultural Affairs). The walls are white plaster with a black plaster band under the eaves.
The ground floor, once joined to the shop as an earth-floored and boarded counting room, was later made into a single earth-floored room. The Agency notes that with the shop it lends dignity to the old road.
Why It Was Registered
The Agency registered it for its contribution to the historic landscape.
What to Look For
At the counting room, look for the black plaster band on the white walls and the separate roof set over the store (Agency for Cultural Affairs).
Visiting
It is owned by Kamuro Co., Ltd. (Agency for Cultural Affairs). According to the Tohoku Tourism Promotion Organization, the brewery's stores and house are now the Kamuro commercial complex, about 20 minutes on foot from JR Furukawa Station; check the complex for opening hours. The shop, counting room and main house are introduced together on the Former Hashihira Sake Brewery (Kamuro) page.
Q&A
- When was it built?
- In the early Meiji period.
- Where is it?
- Joined to the north of the shop.
- What are the walls like?
- White plaster with a black band.
- What is downstairs?
- A single earth-floored room.
- When was the Former Hashihira Sake Brewery (Kamuro) Counting Room registered?
- On February 26, 2021 (Agency for Cultural Affairs).
Basic Information
| Name | Former Hashihira Sake Brewery (Kamuro) Counting Room (旧橋平酒造店（醸室）帳場) |
|---|---|
| Location | 1 Furukawa Nanokamachi, Osaki City, Miyagi Prefecture |
| Designation | Registered Tangible Cultural Property (Structure) |
| Year Designated | Registered 2021/02/26 (Reiwa 3) |
| Quantity | 1 building |
| Dimensions | Two-storey plastered building, iron-sheet roof, 46 m² |
| Owner | Kamuro Co., Ltd. |
| Public Access | Open as the Kamuro commercial complex |
References
- Former Hashihira Sake Brewery (Kamuro) Counting Room (Database of National Cultural Properties, Agency for Cultural Affairs)
- https://kunishitei.bunka.go.jp/heritage/detail/101/00013675
- Kamuro, Furukawa (Tohoku Tourism Promotion Organization, in Japanese)
- https://www.tohokukanko.jp/attractions/detail_1004409.html
Last verified: 2026.11.05
