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30/11/2025

A beautiful example of Japan’s early modernist architecture. Masaharu Baba, a shipping magnate from Toyama, had Tetsuro Yoshida (吉田鉄郎) design this rural holiday home in Setagaya in 1937. At the time, his main residence was a large traditional home in Shinjuku (today it’s in use as the official residence of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court).

Yoshida was known for his early modern designs. He began his career as an engineer at the Ministry of Communications from the 1920s. You might recognize one of his famous works - the Tokyo Central Post Office (now JP Tower and the KITTE retail mall) - dating from 1933. Yoshida was also entrusted to design Baba’s Shinjuku home in 1928 and his other holiday home in Atami in 1940.

Since 1954, the Setagaya home has been owned by Dai-ichi Life as part of a larger park and facility for its employee welfare program, and since 2023 has been open to the public as Setagaya Qs-Garden. The home, too, is now partially open to the public with a cafe downstairs.

24/11/2025

Twice-prime minister Prince Yamagata Aritomo spent his later years in this home in Odawara. While being a bit of an authoritarian and military expansion enthusiast, in his spare time he favored landscape gardening. His green thumb led to the creation of what was once part of a much larger garden that extended all the way down the hill. His villa in Kyoto, Murin-an, is another well-preserved example. Both gardens incorporated early irrigation systems.

Count Kiyoura Keigo, prime minister in 1924, and a close ally of Yamagata, purchased the land in 1907, building a holiday home. In 1914, it became part of Yamagata’s larger estate, accompanying several other villas and gardens. Today, it’s the only building still standing in the Aritomo’s former estate.

The villa has some interesting features - a gravel path to the entrance that becomes narrower to make the home appear further away, an entrance at a 45 degree angle to hide the house while also appearing welcoming to guests, double corridors for guests and the household/staff, and an attached ‘hanare’ room that was used for moon-viewings. The stream running through the garden uses water sourced from a private waterway he created. It taps into the Ogikubo Irrigation system that dates back to the 1700s, drawing water from Hakone’s Hayakawa river up in the mountains.

#小田原 #和風建築 #古い家

14/11/2025

This home was built in 1927 for Tsuneta Yano, founder of the Dai-Ichi Life Insurance Company. Originally located in Denenchofu 3 Chome, it was relocated about 15 kilometers north to Dai-ichi Life’s Sogoen park in 1986.

The Japanese-Western style house was designed by Yosaku Matsumoto. Matsumoto worked with his then-boss Tatsuno Kingo on the design of the former Dai-Ichi Sogo-Kan building in Kyobashi in 1921, and was then invited to join the company as the section chief of building and construction maintenance, collaborating with Jin Watanabe for the Dai-Ichi Seimei-Kan building in the 1930s. He stayed on with the firm in an advisory role into his 90s.

#東京 #世田谷 #古い家 #和洋折衷 #建築 #歴史的建築物

04/11/2025

Fukuzoin temple in Tokyo’s Nakano ward installed a 10 kW solar system on the roofs of the main hall, reception hall, temple kitchen, and staff housing in 2007.

According to the Religious and Scholarly Eco-Initiative (宗教・研究者エコイニシアティブ), roughly 8,200 kW of solar energy was produced by various religious institutions across Japan as of 2017. It’s probably much higher nowadays thanks to the biggest contributor - Seicho-no-ie - producing over 14,400 kW globally as of 2019. The new religion provides subsidies to its followers, and even provides them with cash towards the purchase of electric vehicles.

31/10/2025

A copper-clad shophouse stands alongside the busy Dai-Ichi Keihin highway and just across from the new high-rise towers near Shinagawa Station. Take a closer look and you can see the decorative patterns in the copper sheeting. These patterns are based on traditional geometric styles found in textile designs.

The corner shop once sold car parts. They’re still operating today, just out of a larger workshop across the lane.

#銅板 #看板建築 #品川 #昭和

30/10/2025

Too much for the 16mm lens this time. The Ruriko-in Byakurenge-do (瑠璃光院白蓮華堂) is a towering buddhist temple hidden down a quiet backstreet in Shinjuku. All the functionalities of a buddhist temple but in high-rise form.

It was designed by Kiyoshi Sey Takeyama of Amorphe and completed in 2014. This was one of the largest buildings in the world constructed from white concrete. It gives it three times the strength of regular concrete and with a calculated lifespan of over 300 years.

#東京 #寺 #建築 #竹山聖

29/10/2025

Some houses stand for centuries, while others… two decades.

This was WEP (Whole Earth Project), a house and office designed by Niizeki Studio and constructed from 7,000 concrete blocks. For privacy, the windows were placed on the non-street sides, opening onto a rooftop courtyard.

Completed in 2006, it stood for 19 years.

I managed to get a photo of it back in 2020. I don’t know the reasons for its recent demolition but it is being replaced with a three-unit, two-story block of flats with a GFA that is about 40% larger than the previous one. Perhaps that was determined to be a more efficient use of the land.

#建築 #解体 #コンクリートブロック

27/10/2025

The former residence of Renzaburo Shibata (柴田錬三郎), an award-winning and prolific author. He was also a style maker and fond of wearing Valentino and San Laurent, earning him the Best Dresser award in 1976. Businessman and shipbuilding magnate Hisao Tsubouchi was such a super-fan that he built an 18-hole golf course in Matsuyama City in honor of Shibata. After persistent invites, Shibata did end up playing a few rounds.

His home in Takanawa is located halfway up Katsura-zaka hill - a street that would have once been lined with wealthy ‘yashiki’ or large, private residences. It’s thought to have been built just after WWII.

On to the bad news… the property remained in the same family until last December when it was sold to a major listed developer, likely to redevelop the site into apartments. For whatever reason, the developer sold it six months later to a smaller developer who flipped it that same day to another apartment developer that builds more compact-style rental apartment blocks. It’s a 660 square meter site with a 300% FAR, providing a decent amount of GFA for that type of project.

#高輪 #建築 #解体 #古い家 #昭和

25/10/2025

1970s modernist-style housing in Tokyo.

#東京 #建築 #昭和

19/10/2025

Art storage meets hotel. The operator of this hotel across the river from Asakusa collaborates closely with the local art community, hosting art awards and displaying a rotation of artworks throughout the space. Some of the in-house art storage lockers are on display in the lounge, and hotel staff host special tours of the facilities for guests.

This building was a warehouse constructed in 1966. A hotel conversion was carried out, keeping the facade relatively minimal and unchanged, with it opening as KAIKA Tokyo by The Share Hotels in mid-2020. The 73 rooms are sized between 24 to 42 m2 with nightly rates starting from around ¥16,000.

The hotel operator is a subsidiary of a large Tokyo-based real estate company. They operate a number of hotels across Japan, all with similar concepts of local community involvement and often in repurposed and refurbished older buildings. Looking at the title and I can see how they managed to secure this building - it’s been owned by one of their major shareholders for the past 30+ years.

#東京 #昭和

18/10/2025

Kawagoe’s symbol - the kura or warehouse-style shophouses with their dark and thick earthen walls. In 1893, the town was devastated by the Great Fire of Kawagoe that destroyed a third of the town’s buildings. The townspeople called in carpenters from Tokyo and rebuilt their shophouses in kura or warehouse-style with thick earthen walls and firebreaks between buildings. Over 200 of these fireproof shophouses were built in the following two to three years.

The second photo is a shophouse built for a textile merchant in 1893, right after the fire. It now operates as Kuradukuri (くらづくり本舗), a traditional sweets shop.

The third photo is Kameya (龜屋), another sweets shop. They have been making traditional sweets since 1783. The current store was re-built in 1893.

#川越 #埼玉 #明治時代 #町家 #古い建物

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