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Located immediately to the east of the ''honjin'', the Seimei-ya often housed ''[[karo|karô]]'' and other high-ranking ''daimyô'' retainers.
Located immediately to the east of the ''honjin'', the Seimei-ya often housed ''[[karo|karô]]'' and other high-ranking ''daimyô'' retainers.
The building is comprised of roughly nine spaces; as was typical in most traditional Japanese spaces, the rooms near the rear of the structure were given to higher-status guests, while those of lower status were given rooms closer to the front. The spaces at the very front of the building were used as display rooms (''mise no ma''), as well as for storage and for administrative work for running the inn, and had plain plank floors without [[tatami]]. A ''doma'' area (earthen floor, at ground level compared to the raised wooden structure of the rest of the building) ran along one side of the building, from the ''genkan'' (entrance) through the kitchen and a pocket garden. A tatami-lined room behind the ''mise no ma'' but before the guest rooms was used for preparing dishes coming out of the kitchen, to organize them for delivery to the guest rooms.
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