Tataki
After losing the status of samurai after the Meiji Restoration, the eighth-generation Naonobu and his two descendants established themselves as major landlords by gradually acquiring fields and lands in the area. This large “tataki” was used as a workplace to weigh the rice brought in by tenant farmers until the Ishiguro family lost the status of landlord after 1945 (due to the farm land reform policy pursued by the U.S. occupation forces).
