長屋門 Nagaya-mon

Nagaya-mon (Nagaya Gate) in Miyagi Prefecture

Nagaya-mon (Nagaya Gate) in Miyagi Prefecture

Former Nagaya Gate of the House of the Takeda Family

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長屋門の画像

Original location
Tajiri Town, Toda County, Miyagi Prefecture (now Osaki City, Miyagi Prefecture)
Period of construction
Late 19th century (Meiji period)
Floor space
68.7m2 (18.8 tsubo)
Roof
Hip roof, thatched roof
Donor
Mr. Kan-ichi Takeda
Tangible cultural property No. 8 of Kawasaki Town, Miyagi Prefecture (designated in 2005)
Supervisor: Dr. Kazuo Kusano, Professor Emeritus at Tohoku Institute of Technology

Original location

This gate stood on the front entrance of the residence of the Takeda family, who farmed the land in the former Tajiri Town, Toda County, in the northern part of Miyagi Prefecture.
Tajiri Town, where this gate was located, is on the Osaki Plain and has gentle mountainous areas and rice paddies.

Characteristics of the gate

In the northern part of Miyagi Prefecture, the nagaya-mon, with a warehouse and a barn on both sides of the gate in front of the residence, was popular. It is almost certain that this gate was built at the end of the Edo period. This can be considered the prototype of the nagaya-mon.

Floor plan of the Nagaya-mon

Architectural model