Kanda Family Residence

Not open to the public

Building Designated by Kanazawa City for External Preservation

• Classification: Japanese Architecture
• Designated on April 21st, 2009

This building is said to have been built around 1870 by Sataro MINATOYA, a representative of the area who ran a shipping wholesaler business selling Kaga straw hats. Jirokichi KANDA, who served as the mayor of Kanaiwa, purchased the property in 1951.
   The entrance is designed in a machiya-style with a hanging tender, and the wooden paneling is elaborately decorated with carp and pumpkin copper ornaments on mushi-kui (insect-damadged) ship planks. A residential building with excellent design and space, the house includes an openwork fence with abundant use of ship planks, as well as the Satsusatsu-an tea ceremony room containing kugibako-tana shelves favored by the great tea master Senso.
   The Kanda Residence is a valuable building that effectively conveys the past prosperity of the Kanaiwa area when it prospered thanks to the Kitamae-bune ships.