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松本市大手2-249-10
10：00〜17：00

建築年　　昭和初期か
設計者　　不明
施工者　　不明

建物の南面の壁に、「油三洋裁店」「一級技能士」などの文字が残っていて、衣服の裁ち縫いや縫い直しなどの仕立業を営んでいたことが読み取れる。昭和12年の記録では、松本市の足袋の生産量は行田市に次ぎ全国で2位であり、大正時代に伊勢町で足袋股引製造業を営んでいた商家として油三の記録も残る。市民の生活が和装から洋装になり、需要の変遷に応じ洋裁店として業種替え、あるいは事業の拡大を図ったのであろう。 
北隣の仏具店とは屋根や1階の庇ラインの意匠がつながっており、同一棟であることがわかる。店舗の境目で正面の外観を変えた、いわゆる「長屋建て看板建築」である。洋裁店側は石張りを模した目地を切った洗い出し仕上げの外壁で、レリーフなどの装飾は施されてはいないが、洋服の仕立屋にふさわしい洋風を前面に押し出した意匠である。 
入口には靴脱ぎがあり、店の手前部分から板張りの床になっている。この部分はもともと土間で、框から奥の部分のみが板張りだったと思われる。南側には窓があり、明るい作業スペースであったに違いない。天井から下がる糸巻やメジャーが、洋裁店であった記憶を物語る。

Old Former Aburasan Clothing Store

Year of construction: Early Showa Period?
Architect: Unknown
Builder: Unknown

On the south wall of the building, the words “Aburasan Yosaten” and “First Class Technician” remain, indicating that the shop was engaged in the tailoring business, including sewing and re-sewing of clothes. According to a 1937 record, Matsumoto City ranks second in Japan in the production of tabi socks after Gyoda City, and a record of Aburasan remains as a merchant family that operated a tabi socks and loincloth manufacturing business in Ise-machi during the Taisho Period. As people’s lifestyles shifted from Japanese to Western-style clothing, the Aburasan family may have changed its business type to a Western-style clothing store or expanded its business in response to the change in demand.
The roof and the eaves line of the first floor are connected to the Buddhist altar fittings store next door to the north, indicating that they are in the same building. This is a so-called “tenement building sign architecture” with the front facade changed at the boundary of the stores. The exterior walls on the dressmaker’s side have a washed-out finish with cut-out joints that resemble stone, and although there is no relief or other decoration, it is a design that brings a Western style to the forefront that is appropriate for a dressmaker’s shop.
At the entrance, there is a shoe-removal area, and the front part of the store has a wooden floor. It is thought that this part was originally an earthen floor, and that only the back part from the stile and rail was boarded up. There is a window on the south side, which must have been a bright work space. The thread spools and measuring tape hanging from the ceiling tell the story of the store’s history as a dressmaker’s store.