Former Residence of Saika Tomita

富田砕花旧居

The Former Residence of Saika Tomita in Ashiya's Miyagawa-cho preserves the home where poet Tomita Saika lived from May 1939 until his death in 1984 at age 93, and where Tanizaki Junichiro once stayed in the mid-1930s. Official city pages present him as a Myojo-school tanka poet and vernacular people's poet later called a cultural father of Hyogo, with exhibitions drawn from his writings and a garden of seasonal plants.