Nishie Residence

The Nishie Residence (Nishie Residence) is a residence for the magistrate of the mid-Edo period that still exists in Sakamoto, Nariwa-cho, Takahashi City, Okayama Prefecture. Nationally registered tangible cultural property. == History == According to the family history, the Nishie family is a descendant of the Yoshiaki Miura clan, one of the Bando Hachihei clans, and served as a samurai in the north during the Kamakura period. After the Onin War, he moved from Kyoto to live here from the end of the Muromachi period and became a samurai protecting the mountain castle. The first generation, Nishie Okura Kiyonari, served as a vassal to the Mori clan from the Sengoku period, and after his military exploits during the Tensho wars, he was given 200 square meters of land by Terumoto Mori (with a letter) in 10th year of the Tensho era. Afterwards, due to the defeat of the Mori clan at the Battle of Sekigahara, he abandoned his samurai career and returned to farming. Although he was a wealthy farmer and merchant who served as headman of Gunnaka Sodai from that time, ordinary farmers were not allowed to set up a gate, and the Nishie family tower gate shows the status of being entrusted with the land of the heavenly domain. == Facility == It is located a little uphill from along Prefectural Route 33, and is still maintained and managed as a private residence. Currently in its 18th generation. During the Horeki era (1751-1761), the 6th generation Hyoemon succeeded in smelting Bengara (ferric oxide) for the first time in Japan from iron ore mined from the Motoyama mine.