The Iwaseke Residence (岩瀬家住宅) is one of the gasshō-zukuri houses in Nishiakao-machi Village, Nanto City, Toyama Prefecture.

[1] The Iwaseke Residence was built over a span of 8 years in the late Edo period by Fujii Chouemon [ja](藤井長右衛門).

[3] The Fujii Chouemon family was the second wealthiest wealthy farmer in Gokayama after the Iwabuchi-mura Iemon [ja](岩渕村伊右衛門), family of Toga Valley, and it seems that the house was built with their ample wealth as a backdrop.

[6] According to local legend, Fujii Choemon initially asked Kakube, a prominent carpenter from Inami, to build the house, but Kakube recommended Matasaburo, a carpenter from Himi Okubo Village, instead, and the present Iwaseke residence was built by Matasaburo.

[4] However, when the Tenpō famine triggered the enforcement of the Takakata-Shiho law in 1837, wealthy farmers had their crops confiscated, and the Fujii Choemon family and the Iwabuchi-mura Iemon family rapidly fell into decline.