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Kanazawa•287m(4 min walk)
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Seisonkaku
成巽閣Kanazawa, Ishikawa
Historic area
What makes this place special?
At a Glance
Seisonkaku is a daimyo villa in Kanazawa, on the south side of Kenrokuen Garden. Maeda Nariyasu, the 13th lord of the Kaga domain, built it in 1863 as a retirement home for his mother Shinryū-in, and it is now an Important Cultural Property.
The ground floor is in the formal buke-shoin style, with the Ekken-no-ma audience chamber and a veranda that opens onto a small garden. The 20-meter Tsukushi corridor has no supports under its roof, which is carried by a cantilever. The upper floor is in the sukiya-shoin style, decorated in strong reds, blues and purples, and some screens have panes of imported Dutch glass. The villa serves as a history museum showing possessions of the Maeda family, and its garden is a national Place of Scenic Beauty. A tea house moved from the Maeda residence in Tokyo stands in the grounds.
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Visit Duration
60 minutes
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