Omi Merchant House

Omi merchant who hawked around the country with a body stick over his shoulder. The city of Higashi-Omi produced many Omi merchants during the Edo period. The museum will introduce the commercial law, education, school training, and art of the Omi merchant using images and models. In addition, there is also a corner where you can experience the weight of a pedestrian trip, a shop, and a body stick, a thousand boxes, and a back-to-back furoshiki. The Nakaji Merido Memorial Hall displays works by Japanese painter Nakaji Merito, who has been painting the original landscape of the lake country for the rest of his life.

It was the birthplace of the Omi merchants and a town that flourished as a base for the Gotanso merchants who were active in the Middle Ages. The four surviving Omi merchant houses are open to the public, and the town of the Kindo district, where many of the walls of the wooden board and white walls remain, is a valuable one that has been selected as a national important traditional buildings preservation area and is also certified as a Japanese heritage site.

During the early Showa era, the main house of the Sannakai clan, who operated more than 20 department stores in places such as the Korean Peninsula and the Chinese continent, was credited as the "department store king". There is a two-story wooden main house, a storehouse and a garden on a site of about 1000 square meters. The storehouse displays Obata dolls and clay figures from all over the country.