Iwadare Family Residence Main House

A Dated Honmune Farmhouse of 1836

The Iwadare Family Residence Main House (岩垂家住宅主屋) is a farmhouse in the honmune style of 1836 in Soga, Shiojiri City, Nagano Prefecture, and was registered as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property (structure) on March 26, 2015 (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

The Agency records a timber building of one storey, partly two, with a tiled roof and a building area of 274 square metres, altered in the late Edo period and around 1965; registration number 20-0479.

A Gable Front Crowned with a Crest Ornament

The Iwadare main house is a farmhouse in the honmune style in a village on the outskirts of Shiojiri (Agency for Cultural Affairs). It runs east-west with its east gable as the front, which has a projecting lattice and a crest ornament, and lean-tos run along the front and back.

Three rows of rooms lie to the south, and a raised formal room projects beside the entrance on the front (Agency for Cultural Affairs). The honmune style, found from the Matsumoto basin to Kiso, turns the gable of a low-pitched roof to the front and crowns the ridge with an ornament called suzume-odori.

Why It Was Registered

The Agency values it as a honmune farmhouse of known date with fine joinery in its formal rooms, and registered it for its contribution to the historic landscape.

What to Look For

Look for the lattice and crest ornament on the east gable and the raised formal room beside the entrance (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

Visiting

The Agency database does not list the owner. No official information on public access was found.