Former Ozawa Family Residence

Merchant house and garden

Wealthy merchant house with a traditional garden and rotating displays in an old kura/storehouse adjacent to the back hall. Small permanent displays of the family’s history and the gradual expansion o...

A wealthy merchant representing Niigata

Original Text

From the late Edo period, which was designated as a cultural property of Niigata City, it was a store and residence of the Ozawa family, a wealthy merchant who operated the ship operation of Kitamae Bune, a rice wholesaler, and an oil merchant 々 business in Niigata. In the room in the building, you can take off your shoes and visit it, and you can enter a large garden.

Haoshang の Hall

Original Text

It is located in Shimomachi, Niigata. There are several parking lots diagonally opposite. There are many wealthy farmers' houses in Niigata, but this is a wealthy merchant's house. Niigata is a rice place, but there is also Minato, and it is a prosperous place as a key point of maritime transportation, so you can see it. Perhaps because it is a tenryo and the feudal lord does not visit, there is no room like the upper floor like the one in the wealthy farmer's house, but there were many writings by many great people such as Hayato Ikeda. Tatsuo Ozawa, the Tanaka school who was the Minister of health and welfare ...

Xinyi Culture Finance の Wushi

Original Text

Niigata is a mansion of a wealthy merchant who can see that the economy was good on Kitamaebune. The room is decorated with books by Hayato Ikeda and Heihachiro Higashigo. The garden was also gorgeous, and stones collected from various places such as Sado and Kishu were used, and there were even crane figurines for children.

You can see why the commercial capital Niigata was born

Original Text

It was clear when I came here that the Sea of Japan side was overwhelmingly advanced from the Pacific Ocean in Japan shipping. Niigata was an intermediate base for Kansai and Seto Inland Sea products and Hokkaido products. I can't help but wonder that the Tokugawa Shogunate made this city a tenryo. Of course, Echigo himself is also a granary area of 1.2 million stones. There are also many volts by successive modern politicians. I changed my recognition.