Enyo-tei, Eisho, and others
Background Enyo-tei:
Enyo-tei was built on the eastern side of the Kakumei-kan, which is on the right-hand side of the main entrance and is connected to Enyo-tei. This is the biggest building in the garden. It was mainly used by the feudal lords to take lectures from Confucius teachers and receive their visitors.

Eisho:
Eisho was built and is connected to the western side of Enyo-tei by a corridor with a shingle roof which juts out at an angle. There are rooms available for the feudal lords to receive their guests. The four rooms which are in the north of the main room is facing Noh Stage, and it was possible to watch Noh Dance from there.

* Enyo-tei, Eisho, and Noh Stage, and Kakumei-kan are all connected by corridors or Tsuriya. These four houses complete the large building.

Structure Enyo-tei:
A wooden house, Omoya (the main structure) with a thatched roof, and eaves made of thin shingle

Eisho:
A wooden house, Omoya with a thatched roof, and eaves made of thin shingle

History Enyo-tei:
1690 Completed
1934 Flooded by typhoon Muroto. The water level reached as high as 1.65 meter
1945 Burnt during the air raid in Okayama
1960 Rebuilt.

Eisho:
Completed after Enyo-tei
1934 Flooded by typhoon Muroto. The water level reached as high as 1.7 meter
1945 Burnt during the air raid in Okayama
1960 Rebuilt with Enyo-tei

Current Condition During the Second World War, Okayama was attacked by the air raid, and Enyo-tei, Eisho, Noh Stage, and Kakumei-kan were burnt at that time. After the war (1950), Kikkawa-tei was brought from Iwakuni, Kakumei-kan was rebuilt. In 1955, the reconstruction of Enyo-tei, Eisho, and Noh Stage began. It was completed in 1960, and the original appearance is maintained after the reconstruction.

Enyo-tei was designed with corridors on its eastern and southern sides. This is a house which uses the 10-tatami mat room with a decolative alcove attached as the main room, and the whole house is about 300 square meter large. On the northern side of the main room, there is a 4+1/2- tatami mat tea room with a decolative alcove atached is called Rinni-ken.

From the west of Enyo-tei, a corridor with a shingle roof was constructed which juts out at an angle to connect to Eisho.

Eisho, including an 18-tatami mat main room with a decolative alcove attached, has a total size of 57 tsubo. At the western corner of Eisho, there is a 6-tatami mat room, with a decolative alcove attached, called Hochiku (the bamboo room). As it is called the bamboo room, the alcove posts (Tokobashira) were made of square-shaped bamboo.

If you make a turn to the north from Hochiku, you can see a room called Suminagashi, which has a size of 76 square meter. In the central garden surrounded by Eisho and Suminagashi, Noh Stage was built, which is 150 square meter large.

floor plan
eastern elevation southern elevation
Eisho southern elevation Eisho western elevation
original perspective

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