Takayama Jin'ya

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Entrance overlooking the access to the service rooms

Takayama Jin'ya ( Japanese 高山 陣 屋 ) was the seat of the governor of Takayama ( Gifu Prefecture ) during the Edo period .

overview

The city of Takayama was an old castle town in the mountains and since 1586 the seat of the fiefdom ( han ) Takayama of the Kanamori family. In 1603 the Tokugawa shoguns took power over the place, in 1692 the Kanamori were transferred and the fiefdom as an imperial immediate area ( tenryō ) was directly subordinated to the shogunate. The castle was demolished and at the same time an administrative seat ( jin'ya ) was set up within the village , which was secured with a wall and gates. 25 governors ( 代 官 , daikan or 郡 代 , gundai ) were active in this administrative seat up to the Meiji restoration in 176 years .

After the Meiji Restoration and the abolition of the Han , the Jin'ya lost its function. Since the city moved to the edge of the political process and was only slowly modernized, the area of ​​the Jin'ya, which was then used by the city administration, was the only Jin'ya that remained. In the 1990s, parts of the original system were then restored.

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View from the inside of the gate (right) and the guard building (left)

The facility with dimensions of 100 × 80 m consisted of the governor's residence and administration buildings from 1816, to which two large granaries were added. Have been preserved

  • the gate and the gate guard building,
  • a small library building,
  • rooms used for business purposes,
  • a small attic that belongs to the residence and
  • the large storage building from the 1600s, in which the annual taxes on rice ( 年 貢米 , nengu-mai ) were stacked.

In 1996 the following were restored:

  • the simple residence as an official residence,
    • The restored residence behind the service buildings is decorated in the Shoin style and has corresponding rooms that enclose the garden of the Jin'ya. A special feature is the lookout on a building of the residence, which was rare at the time, and which allowed an overview in emergencies.
  • the economic areas of the official part,
  • a small wing for the city elders,
  • the interrogation room for defendants. and
  • a (historical) waiting hall on the right in front of the entrance.

In 1996 a building with rooms for visitors and for the administration of the facility was built.

The smaller storage building that supplemented the large storage facility, the small remand prison, servants' houses and smaller storage facilities are still missing (in 2006).

Remarks

  1. ↑ This type is called yakutaku ( 役 宅 ).
  2. ↑ This room is usually called shirazu ( 白 洲 ), which can be translated as “piece of white sand”: While the interrogating judges sat elevated on a stage, the accused had to answer kneeling on sharp stones

literature

  • Leaflet of the Takayama Jin'ya

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