page_title: Former Kameoka Family Home
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: Former Kameoka Family Home / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: English: Former Kameoka family home (center) and Date City's Hobara Culture and History museum (right)
context_page_description: The Former Kameoka Family Home is a residential structure that was originally located in Koori Town within the Date District of Fukushima Prefecture. It was dismantled and rebuilt within the same prefecture, in the town of Hobara Town in Date City. The house is designated as an important cultural property of Japan.
context_section_description: The design of the building is attributed to Egawa Saburōhachi (江川三郎八), whose plan was executed by carpenter Ogasawara Kunitarō (大工小笠原国太郎) of Iizaka. The house is made of wood and includes two floors of tatami mat rooms, as well as an attic floor with an East Asian hip-and-gable roof covered in tile. The exterior of the house is pale yellow in color and takes on a Western appearance. In the center of the facade of the house is a tower with an eight sided room protruding from the third floor. The interior of the house is Japanese is style. Wide washitsu rooms are arranged in the center of each floor. Detailed woodwork using valuable wood, including Japanese zelkova and imports from Southeast Asia are spread throughout the house. Two rooms on the first floor are especially well decorated, including the ceiling and wall fixtures of the main living room. On July 25, 2016 the house was designated as an important cultural property of Japan.
caption: Formerk Kameoka Family Home (left), Hobara Museum of History and Culture (right)
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