THE STUDY ON THE MISASAGI VILLA OF KATSURANO-MIYA HOUSEHOLD

Abstract

The Katsura villa is very famous in Japan as one of the most excellent Sukiya architecture. It was the villa of Katsurano-miya Household. Katsurano-miya had four villas. One of them was of course the Katsura villa. Other three of them were the Takagamine villa (Kita-ku, Kyoto City), the Misasagi villa (Nishigyo-ku, Kyoto City), and the Kaiden villa (Nagaokakyo City). These three villas are now not in existence. This is the study on the Misasagi villa. It was called as Hirono villa too, because the Misasagi village was called as Hirono village. The Misasagi villa situated in Misasagi-Ikenotani Nishigyo-ku, There were Jizodo (Jizoson set in here), Shoin (forty tsubo), Gezin (ten tsubo) in the site. The 7th prince, Prince Yakahito went to Misasagi villa, went up the hill (Ochaya-yama, Mount of Villa), and took pleasure in a view. Jizodo was built in 1631, and others were also built in almost same time.