「菊屋家・書院庭園 」山口県 / “The Kikuya family house and garden”Yamaguchi-pref

「菊屋家・書院庭園 」山口県萩市

萩藩の御用達を勤めた豪商・菊屋家の住宅。江戸初期・１６００年頃の建築で400年以上の歴史を誇り大変古い商家建築。頻繁に藩の御用宅に借り上げられ、主屋の天井は床挿しで勇敢な武家屋敷の様式を有している。屋敷内の5棟が国の重要文化財に指定され、現在、敷地の約3分の1が公開されている。江戸時代を中心に、狩野元信作の絵画などの美術品、民具、古書籍など貴重な資料が数多く展示されており、中には室町時代の雪舟の作品も所蔵し季節によって公開している。

菊屋家の庭園は来客をもてなした書院棟（再建）に沿って作られた枯山水様式・座鑑式、お隣である松江藩の出雲流庭園の影響を受けている。書院は近年の再建だが主屋を参考に江戸時代の書院建築を可能な限り再現し、庭園と一体化した美しい景観を創出している。取り外しができる欅の濡れ縁に沿う犬走りの部分には大きめの青い玉石が敷かれ庭の砂と美しい対比をなしている。御成門から庭に入った殿様の籠を置くための「籠置石」が庭の中心に鎮座するように置かれ庭園の要となり、丸・四角・短冊形などの飛び石も庭の大切なアクセントとなっている。また背後の築山には土地神様のお社や石塔などが美しく配置されており、その背後には東蔵が築山の延長のごとく高くそびえ、その白漆喰の壁が背景となって築山の景物や庭木を美しくひきたてている。また書院縁側の御成門そばと付書院裏にはそれぞれ立派な縁先手水鉢が置かれ縁側の端をおさえる要のごときだ。庭園南には竹垣が横切りその先の茶室と露地がこの庭に趣深い奥行きをもたらしている。

◼︎名称：「菊屋家・書院庭園 」

◼︎住所：山口県萩市呉服町1丁目1番地

◼︎TEL: 0838-22-0005

◼︎営業時間：AM 9:00～PM 5:00（入館はPM 4:45まで）

◼︎休園日：年中無休（12月31日　休館）

◼︎駐車場：有り（３台無料）満車の際は萩博物館・中央公園の有料駐車場を利用

◼︎アクセス：萩博物館より徒歩１分

"Kikuya Family and Shoin Garden" Hagi City, Yamaguchi Prefecture

The residence of the Kikuya family, wealthy merchants who served as purveyors to the Hagi domain. Built around 1600 in the early Edo period, it is a very old merchant building with a history of over 400 years. Five buildings on the estate have been designated as important cultural properties of Japan, and currently, about one-third of the grounds are open to the public.

Many valuable materials, such as art pieces such as paintings by Kano Motonobu, folk tools, and old books, are on display, mainly from the Edo period, and among them are works by Sesshu from the Muromachi period, which are open to the public depending on the season.

The Kikuya family garden is a dry landscape garden with a zakanshiki style that was created along with the Shoin building (reconstructed) where visitors were entertained, and was influenced by the Izumo-ryu garden of the neighboring Matsue domain. The Shoin was reconstructed recently, but the Shoin architecture of the Edo period was reproduced as much as possible based on the main house, creating a beautiful landscape that is integrated with the garden. Large blue pebbles are laid along the removable zelkova veranda, creating a beautiful contrast with the sand in the garden. A "basket stone" for placing the lord's basket when he entered the garden through the Onarimon Gate is placed in the center of the garden, making it the focal point of the garden, and round, square, and rectangular stepping stones are also important accents of the garden. In the rear of the garden, a shrine to the local god and stone towers are beautifully arranged, and behind that, the eastern storehouse stands tall as an extension of the mountain, with its white plaster walls as a backdrop that beautifully highlights the scenery on the mountain and the garden trees. In addition, there are magnificent veranda hand-watering basins near the Onarimon Gate on the veranda of the Shoin and behind the attached Shoin, which are like key points that hold down the edge of the veranda. A bamboo fence runs across the south of the garden, and beyond that, a teahouse and a garden give the garden a tasteful depth. ◼︎Name: "Kikuya Family Shoin Garden"

◼︎Address: 1-1 Gofukumachi, Hagi City, Yamaguchi Prefecture

◼︎TEL: 0838-22-0005

◼︎Opening hours: 9:00AM-5:00PM (entrance until 4:45PM)

◼︎Closed days: Open all year round (closed on December 31st)

◼︎Parking: Available (3 cars free) If full, use the paid parking lot at Hagi Museum/Central Park

◼︎Access: 1 minute walk from Hagi Museum