Tosontei

Tosontei is a house with furniture and fittings made of one big driftwood that floated to Inamurasaki in Arita in the Meiji era.
Twenty years before the driftwood was found, there was a famine during Tenpo era, and people in the area were suffering from food shortage. At that time, Kanda family provided rice for free to the Arita people. After a while, the driftwood arrived and the villagers who found it gave to the Kanda family as a repayment for the gratitude. That huge tree was about five meters around the trunk, so they could make two rooms and fittings etc. The house was named based on where it was found.