Museum
Miyajima History and Folklore Museum
57 Miyajimachō, Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima 739-0533
Preserved Edo-era soy sauce merchant house with lattice screens, a tea room, and a courtyard garden.
This guide to the Miyajima History and Folklore Museum walks through the Edo-era house of the Egami family, soy sauce merchants who built their fortune here from the 1830s through the Meiji era. It opens on a strange fact: no one was ever born or died within these walls, in keeping with a sacred-island taboo against blood touching the ground. Step through the low wooden gate at the doorway, built knee-high to keep the island's free-roaming deer off the shop floor.
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