Higoya/Window of the Sea Bream Miso Store

Yoshiharu Tsukamoto Laboratory (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

21 Dec 2018

This restaurant in Tomonoura, Hiroshima Prefecture specializes in sea bream miso. Under the building’s eaves are multiple double-sliding glass doors; on the raised tatami flooring inside, staff receive guests while sat at a counter that doubles up as a shelf.

Higoya
Sea bream miso / Tomonoura, Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture

This article is an excerpt from “Window Workology,” a joint research project concerning windows and the behaviors around them done in collaboration with Tokyo Institute of Technology’s Yoshiharu Tsukamoto Laboratory.

Photography & Text : Yoshiharu Tsukamoto Laboratory (Tokyo Institute of Technology) Translation : Alex Dudok de Wit (Art Translators Collective) Editing : Window Research Institute