Former Uozumi Family Residence

Contact: Nonoichi History Museum TEL: 076-246-2672
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Admission: Free
This is the former Uozumi Family Residence, a merchant's house built in Ishikawa County (present-day Hakusan City) in about 1850. It was relocated to Hon-machi 4-chome, Nonoichi City in 1900.
This building has a hira-iri structure on the front (where the building has its main entrance on the side running parallel to the roof ridge). It looks like a town house from the outside, but the internal layout is that of a traditional farming house. The earthen floor measuring 13m wide and 5.5m deep, called a misenoma where products for sale were displayed, faces the main street. The earthen floor is open to the attic, from which a combination of large beams can be seen. We can often find such houses with a front structure that looks like a town house and an internal layout with a farming house style along Hokkoku road in farming villages around Kanazawa City. There are 12 houses with this structure remaining on the main street in Hon-machi, Nonoichi City.
Nonoichi History Museum shows materials relating to folklore. Tools used in daily life are exhibited at the former Uozumi Family residence. At the far end of the exhibition building, agricultural tools used for growing rice are also exhibited.