Abstract
Mishioden-jinja shrine, located in Futami town of Mie prefecture, has two peculiar attached buildings. One of them, named Mishio-yakisho, is the hut where dense salt water is boiled for the offering salt of Ise-jingu, and the other, named Mishio-kumiiresho, is the shed of the pots of dense salt water. These two buildings are constructed almost only from the sloping roofs, alike as a supposed primitive type of Japanese architecture. Though the two buildings, being newly rebuilt, reveal the modern technique, they keep other various elements of the primitive architecture. For the saltworks of Ise-jingu was established before the ninth century, the origin of these buildings might be very old. The author tried to clarify the detailed history of these buildings by old documents and pictures, and on the other hand, compared them with the buildings of saltworks which were popular in Isshiki village near Futami until the Meiji era. As the result, it was presumed that the building forms of the saltworks of Ise-jingu might have been adopted from those of the folk saltworks in the neighboring beach, and the buildings of the saltworks of Ise-jingu might have been constructed with ridge-supporting-pillars, with which the buildings of the folk saltworks were constructed. This presumption is very important because the building construction with ridge-supporting-pillars was a remarkable characteristic of Japanese ancient architecture, as seen in the main shrines of Ise-jingu themselves.
