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Hayashi Grape Labo/Greenhouse Window
A greenhouse for growing Muscat in Tsutaka Kita Ward Okayama Prefecture. For the cultivation of Muscat a temperature of approximately 20 °C …
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Kadomi Family Residence/Watchtower Window
…he following year. The Sea of Japan is visible from the watchtower in one corner of the main building. From there one could check the unload…
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Terunobu Fujimori|001: The Advent of Magical Light-Transmitting Surfaces, Glass Doors of the Hirano Residence
…ric buildings from all across Japan one at a time. First on the list are the glass doors (garasudo) of the Hirano Residence designed by Kats…
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Kaisen Donya Shipping Agency, Takita Family Residence/Window and the closet
This is the former residence of the Takita family former shipping agents in Tokoname City Aichi Prefecture. The depth of the thick section o…
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Issue 2: The Buried Black Roofs : Orchid Island (Part 1)
… on the island who received a Japanese education spoke Tao and Japanese middle-aged adults spoke Tao and Chinese and children spoke only Chi…
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Kosho Shogakudo/Window for Books
The shopfront of this secondhand bookstore in Nakagyo Ward Kyoto features built-in bookcases facing the street by the entrance overflowing w…
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Windows of the Prouvé House|Jean Prouvé’s Windows #2
…h we live.”1 Reiko Hayama a Japanese architect who worked for Prouvé…
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Hatcho Miso Kakukyu/Window of Miso Storehouse
This Hatcho Miso storehouse (okura) in Okazaki City Aichi Prefecture was built in 1907 and is now a museum. The second floor was a site of s…
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Issue 1: Windows Visited by Spirits: Pingdong
…ot too different from life in Japan so long as you aren’t high-s…
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House of Sato Mataroku/Window for inner warehouses
A mercantile house in Masuda Yokote City Akita Prefecture with a history of around 350 years. It has been designated as an important nationa…
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Fujiwara Bee Farm/Window for Bees
A bee farm founded in 1901 in Morioka City Iwate Prefecture. Originally beehives were left exposed to the weather outside but in severely co…
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Four Tectonic Features that Reside Within Prouvé’s Window Details
…ng Architectural Institute of Japan F-2 History and Theory of Architecture 2001; 611–612 July 2001. DETAIL no.162 SHOKOKUSHA Publishing 2004…
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Former Sugihara Residence/Repeated Window for Sericulture
Folk museum in Hakusan Ishikawa Prefecture. This building was constructed by relocating the 1864 private residence of a wealthy farmer in Sh…
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Final Issue: Asia, Traveled through a Window
…eas. This also reminded me of Japanese architecture. Thinking about it now the way the people of Turpan would stay in their brick homes duri…
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Restored Salt Pan Kamaya/Thatched Roof with Ventilation Window
This is the restored saltworks in the Ako City Marine Science Museum at the Hyogo Prefecture. Ako which is blessed with the calm climate of …
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A Conversation with Peter Märkli
… after her initial studies at Japan’s Women’s University and completed her post-graduate program at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 200…
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Logging Railway Engine Shed/Window of the Former Forestry
This is a wooden one-story logging railway engine shed in the Historical Village of Hokkaido. The trains enter and leave from the double-ope…
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Mineral Workshop/Polycarbonate Roofing for the Salt Production
Salt workshop in Murakami City Niigata Prefecture. Seawater is suctioned via pump from the nearby Japan Sea to the flat tank outside the bui…
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The Storage Shed/Window of the Traditional Herring Fishing in Hokkaido
A flat wooden fishing boat shed in the Historical Village of Hokkaido. The storage shed is a facility used to temporarily store the obtained…
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Life in the Holy Land: Jerusalem, Israel
… This was strange to see as a Japanese person but perhaps this is the regular state of a metropolis. I even saw a barred window in the Jewis…
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Today/Yesterday #2
This column is the second in a series by artist Yokomizo Shizuka who lives in London. She weaves together photographs and text to show us wh…
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Former Shimauta Post Office/Wooden Counter and the Window
This is a wooden two-story post office in the Historical Village of Hokkaido built in 1902. It was restored in 1960. The modern-day post off…
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Nasu Shochu Brewery/Shochu, Rice Fields and the Window
A brewery founded in 1917 in Kuma-gun Kumamoto Prefecture. Since its founding it has continued to brew the shochu “Kuma-no-Izumi” by hand su…
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From the “Window” Snapshots of the 1970s to Contemporary German Photography
…cently. Have you ever shot in Japan? Höfer: I am interested in architecture but I don’t really consider myself an architectural photographer…
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A Conversation with Gion A. Caminada
… after her initial studies at Japan’s Women’s University and completed her post-graduate program at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 200…
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Nanpo Tometaro Shoten/Windows of the Smokehouse
Noriaki Nanpo’s Smokery in Yoichi Hokkaido Prefecture. The facility mainly smokes shrimp Indian salmon scallops and herring. There are gener…
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Ehime Sanshu/Window of the Sericulture House
Three-story wooden sericulture house in Yawatahama Ehime Prefecture built in 1884. The building is still being used today. The interior feat…
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Shizuka Yokomizo|Today/Yesterday #1
Today/Yesterday is a series of columns written by London-based artist Shizuka Yokomizo. She weaves together photographs and text to show us…
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Shinko Clock Shop/Window on the Workbench
Clock store on the island of Osaki Shimojima in Kure Hiroshima Prefecture operating since the Meiji period. The main building on the first f…
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Rushing Along the Nile: Egypt and the Nile
…ound alongside one another in Japan’s Ujigami Shrine. When I arbitrarily understood the place to be like a Japanese shrine I began to …
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Muto Dyeing/Window of the Drying Tower
A dyeing factory in Hamamatsu City Shizuoka Prefecture. The plant has a tower-shaped drying area remarkable even among nearby plants with a …
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Dreh-Kipp Windows
Windows with two opening and closing functions one of which involves rotating inwards horizontally (“collapsing inwards”) while the other op…
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An Alien Landscape from the Window
… merge and mingle. From Korea Japan India Thailand and one realm of the imagination–––––these are multicolored stories about windows written…
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A Conversation with Mario Botta
…terview will be shared with a Japanese audience we thought it could be interesting to begin with your single-family houses. Like many Japane…
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Former Hirose Photo Studio/Roof Glass with Curtains
This is a wooden two-story restored photo studio in the Historical Village of Hokkaido. The roof on the north side is glass known as a singl…
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Horizontal Outward Projecting Window
In this sort of window the upper frame serves as the axis of rotation: it moves up or down along a groove or rail attached to the top and bo…
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Suzuki Morihisa Studio/Window of the Ironware Studio
Nanbu Ironware studio in Morioka Iwate Prefecture founded in 1625. The current building dates back to 1885 the year after a large fire broke…
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Life Seeps Through Frosted Glass
… merge and mingle. From Korea Japan India Thailand and one realm of the imagination–––––these are multicolored stories about windows written…
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Facing the Arches: Cairo, Egypt (part 2)
…n by such voices. Though many Japanese people feel few to no ties to mosques I personally find them far more inviting than Christian churche…
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Uzen Silk Scouring/Window for Steam Discharge
A silk scouring plant founded in 1906 in Tsuruoka City Yamagata Prefecture. Silk scouring is achieved by soaking the raw silk in boiling wat…
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Nature Behind a Curtain Wall
… merge and mingle. From Korea Japan India Thailand and one realm of the imagination–––––these are multicolored stories about windows written…
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Movie “A City of Columns”
…es to the spatial richness of Japanese architecture. In the Windowology research on Hashirama-Sōchi: Equipment In Between hashirama sōchi is…
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Vertical Outward Projecting Window
In this sort of window either the left or right frame serves as the axis of rotation: it moves to the left or right along a groove or rail a…
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Izumo Mingeishi Studio/Window of Drying Room
Windows of the drying room at a Japanese paper studio. To make Izumo folk-craft paper the pressed paper is affixed to kiln-heated iron plate…
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A Conversation with Gigon / Guyer
… after her initial studies at Japan’s Women’s University and completed her post-graduate program at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 200…
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Power Window
Windows that open and close mainly through electric power using a switch or remote control to operate them are called power windows. As they…
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High Altitude Window
Installed in a high place such as the top of a stairwell this sort of window facilitates “gravitational ventilation” by making use of how wa…
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Religion and Cities: Isfahan, Iran
…s down on the region. Perhaps Japanese people with their familiarity with sliding paper screens will have an easy time understanding these. …