Museum of Old Japanese houses (3/4) - detailed up photos of the houses

Another series of photos from Nihon Minkaen (Japan Open-air Folk House Museum) in Kawasaki city - focused on the detailed up photos of the houses

window grille 

 

 

 

thatched roof mount 

 

 up-close texture of thatch

 

steps made of thick wood

 

beams 

 

 drainage

 

 

bamboo wall 

 

 

plants naturally grown on wooden roof

 

up-close texture of outer wall, made of mud and straw 

 

 

 

 

 

Museum of Old Japanese houses (2/4) - Interior

Another series of photos from Nihon Minkaen (Japan Open-air Folk House Museum) in Kawasaki city - focused on the interior of the houses

 

dining room - where the fire burns in center is called "irori". Gray area surrounding the fire is ash, and the black one where the fire is ignited is chacoal. there's a hook hang from the ceiling. Pots can be hang with the hook to heat the meals.

tatami living room with a floor lamp

living room

dining room with kitchenware kabinet

living room with tokonoma (a tiny space to display some artworks) behind

dining room

dining room

 

kitchen

kitchenware cabinet

hibachi - a kind of heating device for winter time

stove and layers of steamer

stove

storage for farming equipment

kitchenware and household equipments

storage of farming equipments

another stove and steamer

storage space for miso

another kitchenware cabinet

stable

Museum of Old Japanese houses (1/4) - Exterior

Nihon Minkaen (Japan Open-air Folk House Museum) is in Kawasaki city, suburb of Tokyo. The museum collected abandoned (or to be abandoned or demolished) old houses throughout Japan and rebulid them along hillside of the park administrated by the city. The houses are in the traditional Japanese style that we can see through the life of our ancestors from pre-modernized era from these houses. Also, it's the place to restore peace of your mind when you're exhausted of the modern life (that I often have such symptom). Since there are not much other than these houses and the nature, you'll feel like you're in the village of Japan in 100 years ago. You can also look inside of the house from the entrance (and the kitchen comes aside of te entrance in most of these old houses) of the houses, but not allowed to step into further (except a few that allows).

I will present the photos of the museum in this and three forthcoming blogs. With this one, I post the photos of exterior of the houses, then other parts of the houses with coming ones.

 

Farmhouse

 

Farmhouse with the plants and moss naturally grown on the roof 

 

Farmhouse

 

Farmhouse

 

Rural Kabuki Theater

 

Farmhouse

 

Farmhouse

 

Farmhouse

 

Farmhouse

 

Farmhouse

 

Waterwheel house

 

 

 

ENtrance of a drug store

 

Entrance of an oil strore

 

shinto shirine

Looking inside of the shrine