Store and serve cool. Ideal in a white wine glass with leafy green salad, roast white meats, bloomy rind goat cheeses.

The Kosaka family is located in the center of Mino City, a small provincial city in the northern part of the Nobi Plain, and is an old family that has been in the sake brewing business since the Edo period.

In the construction period, there are many prayer tags nailed to the shield of the main doorway, and there is one that says “Yasunaga 2nd year” (1773), and it is estimated to be around the first year of Yasunaga from the structural method and other factors, and it is a typical custom of Usagi townhouses that are often seen in this area.

After the construction, various remodeling was carried out in the early Meiji era, such as the inner partition of the earthen floor, the area around the “Okate”, and the construction of the “Mihari Room”. Then, around the 20th year of the Meiji era, the north side of the roof was removed, and the “north room” on the second floor was newly constructed, and the floor of the first floor “Misezashiki” was raised. After that, the yuka of “Mise” was lowered and the eaves on the back were remodeled, and it has reached the present.

The first attraction of the Kosaka family house is the roof. There are 20 townhouses built in Mino City, but the beautiful raised roof of the Kosaka family’s three-pronged house is unparalleled.

However, as mentioned above, the north side of the central building has been removed, and now it is a double building when viewed from the main street. The eaves decoration of the rabbit building also had a different shape in the east and west, with the east side being old, the west side adding demon tiles, and the bird bran being remodeled. It is now in its old form. In any case, it was made in the Edo period, and the width of the gable tiles is narrow, and the suspension tiles are small and tight, giving it a simple beauty.

One of the features of this main house is that the depth of the east side was shortened and a courtyard was set. Because of this courtyard, the space between the “keeps” creates brightness and spaciousness. The three-legged building must have been built out of necessity due to this structure.

The interior is well old-fashioned, with fittings, furnishings, and shrine shelves around the “middle room”, and the “goodwill” of the middle partition and the barrel room are also quaint. There is a “Mihari Room” on the second floor overlooking the “middle room”. This was a remodeling in the first year of the Meiji era, and it is said that the master was here to monitor the work of the indentured servants.

The second floor seems to have been originally a room for male and female servants and a firewood room, but after the Meiji era, some of it was remodeled into a magnificent room.

In recent years, the slope of the building due to uneven settlement has become remarkable, so it was semi-dismantled and repaired over the 57th and 58th years. With a construction cost of about 65 million yen, it was possible to recreate the appearance of the Edo period in a form that is close to perfect. I would like to carefully preserve it as a representative private house of the precious townscape of Mino City.

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