A house for workers that was moved and restored in 1986. Approximately 30 of the 137 buildings built for the Shincho-gumi in 1870 in Tsuruoka, Daihoji, and Dogata, were moved in 1875 to the Matsugaoka Reclamation Land to be used as huts for the Shincho-gumi, a group of Roshi (lordless samurai). The one-story building with stone-weighted roof exemplifies what the townscape would have looked like at the time of the reclamation. (City-designated Tangible Cultural Property) (Located in the Matsugaoka Reclamation Land grounds)
The Matsugaoka Silkworm Industry Inari Shrine was originally located in the grounds of a former residence of the Sakai family in Tokyo. It was moved to its current location atop the mound in the reclamation land in 1875, and was renamed in 1895 after the god of protection of the silkworm industry. (Located in the Matsugaoka Reclamation Land grounds)
In 1874, mulberry trees and tea plants were planted on 311 hectares of cultivated land, with silkworm breeding and tea production beginning in 1877. Of the 10 buildings constructed between 1875 and 1877, five are still in their original form, and were constructed to a large scale using a method from Shimamura, a village in Gunma Prefecture (now Isesaki City). (Located in the Matsugaoka Reclamation Land grounds)
The Matsugaoka Honjin (Headquarters) is a one-floor cypress building with thatched roof once called Ochaya or the Fujishima Honjin, which was relocated to its current spot in 1872. Used as a rest spot when the Daimyo of the Shonai Clan paid a visit to Edo (modern-day Tokyo), the building started off as a temporary palace named the Takahata Palace after its location in Takahata, Tsuruoka (Kamihatamachi, Tsuruoka). The building hosted the third Daimyo of the Shonai Clan, Sakai Tadakatsu during the expansion of Tsuruoka Castle in 1622, before being moved to Shimo-machi, Fujishima (Fujishima-machi, Nishikawawara). (Located in the Matsugaoka Reclamation Land grounds)
Five years after the 1868 Meiji Restoration, 3,000 former Shonai Clan soldiers put down their swords in exchange for hoes, cultivated untamed land, and in the process created the Matsugaoka Reclamation Land that wonderfully shows the history that contributed to the development of the silk industry. The five buildings that remain at the center of the massive reclamation land include the Honjin, the headquarters of the operation, and the three-story silkworm breeding center with distinctive tile roofing made in the Joshu Shimamura style. (National Historic Site) 997-0152, Yamagata-ken, Tsuruoka-shi, Haguro-machi, Matsugaoka 29
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