The Outline of the Egawa House
The Egawa House was built by Hidetatsu (Tarozaemon) Egawa who was well known as a creator of the “Nirayama Reverberatory Furnace” that was officially registered as UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2015.
Hidetatsu Egawa was succeeded to the name of “Tarozaemon” and so the “Tarozaemon” was more popular than his original first name, Hidetatsu.
Because Hidetatsu Egawa was a prefectural governor, the Egawa House used to be “Magistrate’s Office of Nirayama (Nirayama Daikanjo)”, the Egawa family was appointed as a governor of the districts such as Izu, Suruga, and Sagami by the Tokugawa shogunate for almost the entire time of the Edo era.