Yamamasa Soy Sauce Brewery Brick Wall

Nakano flourished from the Meiji to Taisho eras as a food industry centered on the brewing of soy sauce and miso and the production of buckwheat flour, and at the time Nakano's wealthy family, Yama Masaie, operated a soy sauce brewery on a vast plot of land. The original brick wall was built in 1899 (Meiji 32) and is an early Western-style brick structure from an era before cement, built using a method that combined traditional Japanese plaster techniques with French masonry techniques, evoking the fact that Nakano was a hub of the food industry. This wall is a relocated and restored portion of the original wall.