Enyo-tei, Eisho, and others | |
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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: * 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: |
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: |
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 |