時空の旅わくわく日記

　昭和 年に神田鎌倉河岸に立てられた家で、材木商井政を営んでいた遠藤家の住宅兼店舗の建物だそうです。
　江戸以来の商家建築の様式を受け継いでいて、細部にわたって素晴らしいです。材木商の家だけあって、北山杉、屋久杉等の良材が利用されています。
　神田明神は何度も訪問していますが、最近続けざまに 3 つの新たな発見をしました。一つは狛犬の片方がユニコーンであること、二つ目は裏に藤棚があり藤の花がきれいに咲いていたこと、三つ目が井政の家です。新しい発見は嬉しいものです。

You can find a traditional Japanese house Imasa next to the Kanda Myojin shrine near Ochanomizu railway station. The house was built in 1927, using traditional techniques with finest materials available.

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Located next to Kanda Myojin shrine, the building offers an example of how merchants used to live in the past. The original was occupied by the Endo family, lumber merchants at Edo Castle between 1603 and 1868. Therefore it is a rare surviving prewar combination of shop and residential building. The name of the lumber shop was ‘Imasa’, hence the name of the building.
It is not possible to build a house like Imasa anymore, because parts of the house consist of Yakusugi, cedar from Yakushima Island that is at least one thousand years old and now protected from harvesting.
（ https://en.japantravel.com/tokyo/imasa-edo-period-shop-house-and-cafe/61504 ）