Private House (Gassho-Style House in Shirakawa)

One Farmhouse, Designated by the State in 1959

Private House (Gassho-Style House in Shirakawa) (民家（白川の合掌造）) stands at 1-2 Hattori Ryokuchi, Toyonaka City, Osaka Prefecture, and was designated by the state on 6 May 1959. Its category is that of important tangible folk cultural properties.

The quantity is one building. The managing body is a prefectural cultural properties foundation.

The Agency records it as large for a house of this kind, with a water house and a privy attached.

Moved to Save It from the Water

It was moved because the ground it stood on would be lost.

The Agency records a house from a hamlet in Gifu Prefecture that went under water when a dam was built, moved to Toyonaka as the flooding came.

The land beneath it went under; the building alone was taken away.

The Hara family's former tenement gate came from a temple to a farmhouse, and the former Gakushuin hall went from school to school. Those moves answered to how the buildings were used.

The Haba residence was moved to another settlement after a fire, taking the place of what was lost.

Here the building would have gone with the ground had it stayed. The move is itself the preservation.

A House of Gifu, Designated in Osaka

Where it was built and where it was designated are different places.

It stood in a hamlet in Gifu Prefecture. It now stands in Osaka Prefecture.

The name keeps the old place within brackets, along with the manner of building. The name of the ground it came from stays with it.

At the Kubiki Railway locomotive shed, the brackets hold the present use: a change of purpose.

Here they hold the former place and the form. The location field says Osaka; the brackets in the name point to Gifu.

The move crossed prefectures, and the designation was made where it came to rest.

A Water House and a Privy Attached

Besides the main building, service buildings are included.

The Agency records a water house and a privy attached. The first is where water was drawn and used.

The quantity is one building. The attached parts are counted within that one.

At the Tatsumi canal, one word in the name marks what is attached to the principal subject.

At Hayabusa Station, two things stand in the name: the station building and the platform.

Here the attached parts do not appear in the name at all, only in the commentary. They are gathered into the one all the same.

Visiting

The house stands at 1-2 Hattori Ryokuchi, Toyonaka City, Osaka Prefecture, in the keeping of a prefectural cultural properties foundation.

The Agency calls it large for a house of this kind: among the larger of its manner of building.

It was designated on 6 May 1959, early among important tangible folk cultural properties.

The reading given in the record for the place name differs from the customary one.

It forms part of a site run by the managing body, so opening and hours follow that body's arrangements. Check before travelling.