旧渋沢邸を報道公開　青森から再移築―清水建設

　清水建設は５日、青森県六戸町から東京都江東区に再移築した「旧渋沢邸」の内部を報道陣に公開した。渋沢栄一が暮らした邸宅では唯一現存するもので、２代目当主清水喜助が設計施工した表座敷部分は築１４６年になる。今年１月に江東区指定有形文化財に指定された。
　清水建が昨秋開設したイノベーション・人材育成拠点の目玉施設で、同社の歴史資料館も併設した。４月から関係者の見学を受け入れる。一般公開の準備も進めている。清水建の井上和幸社長は記者会見で「当社のＤＮＡを継承する場となる」と語った。
　旧渋沢邸は１８７８年に東京・深川に建設。移築・増改築を経て現在の和洋館並列型となった。渋沢家は栄一から４代にわたって暮らした。戦後に国有化され、大蔵相公邸や共用会議所として使われた後、１９９１年に青森県に移築されていた。２０１９年に清水建が取得した。（2024/03/05-17:09）

Shimizu Corp. unveiled to the press on Tuesday the interior of a former residence of Eiichi Shibusawa, known as the father of capitalism in Japan, after the former residence was moved back to Tokyo from Aomori Prefecture in northeastern Japan.
   It is the only remaining residence of Shibusawa. Part of the building was designed and built by Kisuke Shimizu, the second head of the company, 146 years ago. In January this year, it was designated as a tangible cultural property of Tokyo's Koto Ward.
   The residence was originally built in Tokyo's Fukagawa area in 1878 and occupied by the Shibusawa family for four generations. It was nationalized after World War II and relocated to Aomori in 1991. In 2019, the general contractor acquired it.
   The residence, which includes both Japanese and Western elements, is now located within Shimizu's innovation and human resources development site, which opened last autumn. It will be open to related people from April, and the company is also preparing to open it to the public.
   "It will be a place to inherit our company's DNA," Shimizu President Kazuyuki Inoue told a press conference.