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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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The Smile Sealed Inside a Bubble—Natsume Soseki’s Inside Glass Doors
…s. Among the major figures of Japanese literature Horie is best known outside Japan for The Bear and the Paving Stone which has been transla…
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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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Takashi Homma on photographing the window in Le Corbusier’s architecture
…cumentary in three museums in Japan from 2011 to 2012. Has published numerous photography books including Tanoshii shashin: Yoiko no tame no…
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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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Takashi Homma Looking Through: Le Corbusier Windows has been reprinted and is now back in stock
…/Softcover English French and Japanese text ISBN:978-3-96098-725-3 Published in November 2019…
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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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Japan House Los Angeles Presents a Webinar Discussion “New Views: The Influence of Windows on Architecture and Society”
Japan House Los Angeles Presents a Webinar Discussion “New Views: The Influence of Windows on Architecture and Society” On Monda…
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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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Rei Naito: Mirror Creation
…“mirroring” you speak of? The Japanese term utsusu translated here as “mirroring” is expressed in Chinese characters with a variety of meani…
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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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Japan House Los Angeles Unveils New Exhibition: “Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan”
… New Architectural Views from Japan at JAPAN HOUSE Los Angeles a Japanese cultural destination in the heart of Hollywood. Developed prior to…
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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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The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture through Windows at the Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art
…indow. Programs Galley talks (Japanese-only) and workshop may be held depending on the situation with COVID-19. See MIMOCA’s website for lat…
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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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Exhibition delays – The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture Through Windows at MIMOCA
…temporary Art (MIMOCA; Kagawa Japan) has been postponed and will be opening as follows. Dates July 11 to September 2 2020 October 13 2020 to…
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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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Windows in Photography: Conversations with Iwan Baan, Takashi Homma and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto
…cumentary in three museums in Japan from 2011 to 2012. Has published numerous photography books including Tanoshii shashin: Yoiko no tame no…
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Chiharu Shiota The Sense of Daily Life and Smells Soaked into Windows Gives Power to My Work
… “coming back” to Japan or if I’m “going” to Japan. Whichever way I go neither are paths home at this point. W…
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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. …
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Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan Exhibition at Japan House London
Japan House London is temporarily closed to hinder the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19). Any changes to the above status will be communicate…
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The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture Through Windows at MOMAT, Tokyo
…temporary Art (MIMOCA; Kagawa Japan) where it will be on view from October 13 2020 to January 11 2021. See this page for further information…
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Memories of a Skylight: Tashqurqan Part 3
…dding. I was surprised that a Japanese man like myself who had just been met the previous day had been invited to a wedding in the community…
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Casement Window
Casement windows open by rotating horizontally to the left and right from the center taking either the left or right edge as an axis. Some o…
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“Traditional” Balsamic Vinegar in Modena, Northern Italy
…n small spoonsful. I imagined Japanese vinegar as I tasted the balsamic vinegar in my mouth and was surprised by the fresh sweet and sournes…
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Shifted Windows: Masuleh, Iran
…rved lines that bring to mind Japanese kara-hafu gables windows with embossed boards and other such designs are varied in a way that makes o…
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The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture Through Windows at MOMAT, Tokyo
…temporary Art (MIMOCA; Kagawa Japan) where it will be on view from July 11 to September 27 2020 October 13 2020 to January 11 2021. Exhibiti…
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Ch.2 Symbolic Realism
…the Yokohama Museum of Art in Japan. 11. For a detailed study of this image see Anne McCauley Talbot’s Rouen Window. Romanticism Naturphilos…