According to "Views in and Around Kyoto (Rakuchu rakugai zu)", the area around Kambaikan was considered to have been the site of the Muromachi estate (Muromachi dono), which the twelfth shogun Yoshiharu ASHIKAGA had reconstructed.
洛中洛外図により、寒梅館周辺は第12代将軍足利義晴が再築した室町殿のあった場所と推定される。