Yagyu Karo Yashiki

The Karō Residence (家老屋敷) was the home of the chief retainer of the Yagyū Domain (10,000 koku), located just a short walk from the Yagyu Jin’ya. Built in the mid-Edo period, it served both as a private residence and as an administrative office for the domain’s top-ranking samurai official. The res

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The Karō Residence (家老屋敷) was the home of the chief retainer of the Yagyū Domain (10,000 koku), located just a short walk from the Yagyu Jin’ya. Built in the mid-Edo period, it served both as a private residence and as an administrative office for the domain’s top-ranking samurai official.

The residence is a single-story hiraya structure with plaster walls and a tiled roof, arranged around formal reception rooms (zashiki) that face a dry-landscape garden. The architecture reflects the elevated status of the karō, more refined than an ordinary samurai home yet modest compared to a daimyō’s mansion.

The residence includes a nagayamon gate, earthen walls, and a garden. It provides rare insight into the lifestyle of high-ranking retainers in a small rural domain. Today it is preserved as a museum, displaying artifacts from the Yagyu clan and Edo-period samurai life. The house was bequeathed to the city when Oyamada XX passed away in XXX. The city restored it from x to y.

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Yagyu Karo Residence Profile
English Name	Yagyu Karo Residence
Japanese Name	旧柳生藩家老屋敷
Year	Mid Edo Period (17th–18th century)
Residence Type	Upper Class
Designations	Local Historic Site
Features	Gates, Garden, House
Visitor Information
Website	https://www.city.nara.lg.jp/site/yagyuu/
Location	Nara, Nara Prefecture
Castle	Yagyu Jin'ya
Coordinates	34.7348, 135.9892
Yagyu Jin'ya and nearby Samurai Homes
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