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seminar week of spring semester 2012
seminar week of spring semester 2012 Trip to Japan
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Zurich airport
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Zurich airport
Paris airport
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Paris airport
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Transit
Hotel Chuo Oasis
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Uniqlo Shinsaibashi
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Osaka hotel
LVMH Osaka
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GalleriaOsaka.
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Nakanoshima station
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Tsūtenkaku
Osaka City Central Public Hall
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Church of the Light
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Church service 10:30 - 11:30
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Gate Tower Building Osaka hotel JR station Shin-Imamiya Station 新今宮駅
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Osaka
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GC Osaka Office
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Osaka castle
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Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan
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Umeda sky building
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architecture Denner time
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Access to an observation floor
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Kansai International Airport. Kansai opened in 1994 to relieve overcrowding at Osaka International Airport, which is closer to the city of Osaka and now handles only domestic flights. During the 2006 fiscal year, KIX had 116,475 aircraft movements, of which 73,860 were international (31 countries, 71 cities), and 42,615 were domestic (19 cities). The total number of passengers was 16,689,658 of which 11,229,444 were international, and 5,460,214 were domestic, sixth in Japan and second in Osaka area. However, in 2009, airport traffic has fallen by almost 20% in just two years to 13.4 million.[6] Freight volume was at 802,162 tonnes total, of which 757,414 t were international (18th in the world), and 44,748 t were domestic. Construction started in 1987. The sea wall was finished in 1989 (made of rock and 48,000 tetrahedral concrete blocks). Three mountains were excavated for 21,000,000 m3 (27,000,000 cu yd) of landfill. 10,000 workers and 10 million work hours over three years, using eighty ships, were needed to complete the 30-metre (98 ft) layer of earth over the sea floor and inside the sea wall. In 1990, a three kilometer bridge was completed to connect the island to the mainland at Rinku Town, at a cost of $1 billion. Completion of the artificial island increased the area of Osaka Prefecture just enough to move it past Kagawa Prefecture in size. In 1991, the terminal construction commenced. To compensate for the sinking of the island, adjustable columns were designed to support the terminal building. These could be extended by inserting thick metal plates at their bases. Government officials proposed reducing the length of the terminal to cut costs, but architect Renzo Piano insisted on keeping the terminal at its full planned length.[13] The airport opened in 1994.
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Hotel chuo OASIS Area/1-9-15 Taishi Nishinari-ku Osaka-shi Japan Zip557-0002 Phone/06-6647-6130 Closed/none check in/15:00 check out/10:00 Nearest station/JR Shinimamiya-station http://www.chuogroup.jp/oasis/english/index.html
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Tsūtenkaku. Tsūtenkaku, lit. "Tower Reaching Heaven", owned by Tsūtenkaku Kanko Co., Ltd. is a well-known landmark of Osaka, Japan and advertises Hitachi. It is located in the Shinsekai district of Naniwa-ku, Osaka. Its total height is 103 m: the main observation deck is at a height of 91 m. The current tower is the second to occupy the site. The original tower, patterned after the Eiffel Tower, was built in 1912, and was connected to the adjacent amusement park, Luna Park, by an aerial cable car. At the time of its construction, its height of 64 meters made it the second tallest structure in Asia. It quickly became one of the most popular locations in the city, drawing visitors from all over the area. The original structure suffered a fire in 1943 which severely damaged it, and rather than repair the structure, it was disassembled and the steel used for the war effort.[1] After the war citizens lobbied to rebuild the beloved tower. A private company, the Tsūtenkaku Kanko Co. Ltd. was established and Tachū Naitō, Japan's "Father of Towers" was selected to design it. The new, eight-sided structure was opened in 1956.[2] The tower is also famous for its neon lights, which change every few years (they were shut off during the oil crisis of 1974–76). Hitachi has sponsored the tower since 1957, and the light designs usually spell out Hitachi advertisements, although one side of the tower is usually occupied by a public service announcement.
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Osaka City Central Public Hall. In Osaka City, Kita ward, along the Dojima and the Tosabori River, both running gently, there are a number of historical architecture which retains the remnants of the Meiji and the Taisho period. Among those beautiful buildings, the most eyecatching one is Osaka City Central Public Hall(Osaka-shi Chuo Kokaido), elegant Neo-Renaissance architecture with red brick wall and dome-shaped bronze roof. The graceful appearance looking even more beautiful on blue water and green trees has always been loved by many people. The tower is also famous for its neon lights, which change every few years (they were shut off during the oil crisis of 1974–76). Hitachi has sponsored the tower since 1957, and the light designs usually spell out Hitachi advertisements, although one side of the tower is usually occupied by a public service announcement. The public hall was made with a large grant from an Osaka citizen, Mr. Einosuke Iwamoto who was a broker in Kitahama, Osaka. His donation was 1 million yen equivalent to billions yen in current monetary value. Einosuke had an opportunity to visit the United States as a member of businessman group and there he was impressed by the fact that American businessmen pay their own money to contribute to make great public halls like Carnegie Hall. Then he decided to construct one in Osaka which should be as beautiful as any hall in the world. The hall construction started in 1913 and was completed in 1918. Although it was rare at that time, they had a competition between nominated architects. Through its long history, the hall has been always deeply involved in cultural and art activity of Osaka people. Many international stars had various concerts like opera and also many famous people had lectures there. The role of the hall was changing with the times, however it always contributed to Osaka citizens' cultural activity. The hall renovation was started in March 1999 since the original design had been ruined from repeated repairment and the building itself had been aging. After 4 years reconstruction, it completed in September 2002 and reopend in November that year. This extensive renovation aimed at the preservation of the building as a historical architecture and the restoration to its original design. By the reconstruction, the hall's endurance was improved. It got seismic isolation retrofit which is the technology giving high seismic capacity to an old building and had ramps and elevators answering the needs of the age and the next generation. Also, we can see its original structure and furnishings inside the hall, that tells us the people involved in this renovation really loved the architecture.
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The beautifully renovated hall has got treasured for its magnificent appearance and refined interior design and it was highlyesteemed as a historical architecture, which is essential for the scenery of Nakanoshima.It has got designated as a cultural asset of national importance in December 2002. It became the first public hall of a national importance in western Japan. Despite the hall has such cultural value, it has been always loved by people and used for citizens' cultural and art activity. The building which has been supported by so many people will continue to attract people and be inherited as the symbol of Osaka.hall construction started in 1913 and was completed in 1918. Although it was rare at that time, they had a competition between nominated architects. Through its long history, the hall has been always deeply involved in cultural and art activity of Information Address/1-1-27Nakanoshima,Kita-ku,Osaka Phone/06-6208-2002 Fee/free Open/09:30-21:00 C l o s e / T h e f o u r t h Tu e s d a y e v e r y m o n t h ďźˆWednesday if Tuesday is a holiday) http://osaka-chuokokaido.jp/english/index.html Tatsuno Kingo (October 13, 1854 – 25 March 1919) was a Japanese architect born in Karatsu, Saga Prefecture, Kyushu. He studied in Japan at the Imperial College of Engineering where he was one of the first to graduate in 1879 under British architect Josiah Conder. He visited England and worked in the office of William Burges in 1881-2.[1] He taught at the University of Tokyo. He created his own firm in 1903. After his graduation in 1879, Tatsuno journeyed to London in 1880 to attend London University. During his stay he worked at the office of the Gothic Revivalist William Burges. Unfortunately, Burges died in 1881 during Tatsuno's stay. Before returning to Japan he travelled in France and Italy for a year.[2] During this time he was influenced by the Queen Anne style. On his return to Tokyo, he taught first at the Imperial College of Engineering before becoming department head at the Tokyo University. In 1886, he was one of the founders of the forerunner of the Architectural Institute of Japan, the then called "Building Institute". The organisation was based upon the Royal Institute of British Architects and the group met regularly, sponsored lectures and produced Japan's first architectural journal.[3] Although his early work was influenced by his travels in Europe with traces of Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren, the Shibusawa Mansion (1888) was influenced by Serlio, Ruskin and Conder's own Venetian styled works. The site, on one of Tokyo's canalways suited itself to a Venetian character.[4] His ties with Shibusawa Eiichi brought him the commission to design the Bank of Japan in 1890 (completed in 1896). It was first building of its type to be designed by a native Japanese person. Tatsuno immediately set off to Europe for a year to do research for the project, studying amongst other buildings, the Banque Nationale in Brussels by Beyaert and Janssens.[5] The bank is a three storey building constructed with reinforced brick faced with stone and has limited use of steel for long spans. Its style is inspired by French Neoclassicism. The original building was square in plan with the banking hall situated immediately behind the porticoed main front.[6] Tatsuno had a strong influence Japanese colonial architecture - especially in Manchukuo. Connection with construction firms like Okada Engineering, the Association of Japanese Architects or through the new Journal of Manchurian Architecture, helped insure that a particular architectural style—that popularized by Tatsuno, sometimes called the Tatsuno style initially became the standard throughout Japanese Manchuria. This involved a somewhat grand interpretation of the style of historical eclecticism that was popular in contemporary Europe.[7] In 1903 he set up his own office, the first Japanese architect in the country to do so. He died as a result of the 1918 flu pandemic in 1919.
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Tatsuno Kingo
Keihan Electric Railway
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Nakanoshima Line Naniwabashi Station. Tadao Ando 2008
Uniqlo Shinsaibashi Osaka. Sou Fujimoto 2010
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Church of the Light. Church of the light is the Ibaraki Kasugaoka Church's main chapel. It was built in 1989, in the city of Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture. This building is one of the most famous designs of Japanese architect Tadao Ando. In 1999, the main building
Tadao Ando
Row House in Sumiyoshi
Tadao Ando (Born September 13, 1941, in Minato-
was extended with the addition of a Sunday School.
ku, Osaka, Japan and raised in Asahi-ku in the city) is a Japanese architect whose approach to
>Description
architecture was categorized by Francesco Dal Co
The Church of the Light is a small structure on the corner of
as critical regionalism. Ando has led a storied life,
two streets at Ibaraki, a residential neighborhood. It is located 25 km north-northeast of Osaka in the western foothills of the Yodo valley railway corridor. The church has an area of roughly 113 m² (1216 ft²): about the same size as a small house.
working as a truck driver and boxer prior to settling on the profession of architecture, despite never having taken formal training in the field. He visited buildings designed by renowned architects like Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Kahn before returning to Osaka in 1968 and established his own design studio, Tadao
The church was planned as an add-on to the wooden chapel
Ando Architect and Associates.
and minister's house that already existed at the site. The
He works primarily in exposed cast-in-place
Church of the Light consists of three 5.9m concrete cubes
concrete and is renowned[by whom?] for an exemplary craftsmanship which invokes a Japanese
(5.9m wide x 17.7m long x 5.9m high) penetrated by a wall
sense of materiality, junction and spatial narrative
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through the pared aesthetics of international
°, dividing the cube into the chapel and the
entrance area. One indirectly enters the church by slipping between the two volumes, one that contains the Sunday
modernism.[citation needed] In 1995, Ando won the Pritzker Architecture Prize, considered the highest distinction in the
school and the other that contains the worship hall. The
field of architecture.[1] He donated the $100,000
benches, along with the floor boards, are made of re-purposed
prize money to the orphans of the 1995 Kobe
scaffolding used in the construction. A cruciform is cut into the concrete behind the altar, and lit during the morning (as it is facing east). It took more than two years to complete. The delay in completing the work was due to problems in raising the necessary funds. Initially it was feared that it would cost more
earthquake.[2]
Information Address/4-3-50 Kitakasugaoka-chi, Ibaraki-shi Osaka-fu. Phone/072-627-0071 Fee/free Open/10:30 Sunday
than the budget and Ando even considered building it without
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Information Address/1-1 Osaka-jyo, Chuou-ku, Osaka City, ZIP:540-0002 Phone/06-6941-3044 Fee/¥600 Open/09:00-17:00 Close/http://www.osakacastle.net/english/
Osaka Castle. Osaka Castle is a Japanese castle in Chūō-ku, Osaka, Japan. Originally called Ozakajō[citation needed], it is one of Japan's most famous castles, and played a major role in the unification of Japan during the sixteenth century of the Azuchi-Momoyama period.[1] >Description The main tower of Osaka Castle is situated on a plot of land roughly one kilometer square. It is built on two raised platforms of landfill supported by sheer walls of cut rock, using a technique called Burdock piling, each overlooking a moat. The central castle building is five stories on the outside and eight stories on the inside, and built atop a tall stone foundation to protect its occupants from sword-bearing attackers. The Castle grounds, which cover approximately 60,000 square meters (15 acres)[2] contain thirteen structures which have been designated as Important Cultural Assets by the Japanese government,[3] >History In 1583 Toyotomi Hideyoshi commenced construction on the site of the Ikkō-ikki temple of Ishiyama Hongan-ji. The basic plan was modeled after Azuchi Castle, the headquarters of Oda Nobunaga. Toyotomi wanted to build a castle that mirrored Oda's, but surpassed it in every way: the plan featured a five-story main tower, with three extra stories underground, and gold leaf on the sides of the tower to impress visitors. In 1585 the Inner donjon was completed. Toyotomi continued to extend and expand the castle, making it more and more formidable to attackers. In 1597 construction was completed and Hideyoshi died. Osaka Castle passed to his son, Toyotomi Hideyori.
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In 1600 Tokugawa Ieyasu defeated his opponents at the Battle of Sekigahara, and started his own bakufu in Edo. In 1614 Tokugawa attacked Hideyori in the winter, starting the Siege of Osaka.[4] Although the Toyotomi forces were outnumbered approximately 2 to 1, they managed to fight off Tokugawa's 200,000-man army and protect the castle's outer walls. Tokugawa had the castle's outer moat filled, negating one of the castle's main outer defenses. During the summer of 1615, Hideyori began to dig the outer moat once more. Tokugawa, in outrage, sent his armies to Osaka Castle again, and routed the Toyotomi men inside the outer walls on June 4. Osaka Castle fell to Tokugawa, and the Toyotomi clan perished. In 1620, the new heir to the shogunate, Tokugawa Hidetada, began to reconstruct and re-arm Osaka Castle. He built a new elevated main tower, five stories on the outside and eight stories on the inside, and assigned the task of constructing new walls to individual samurai clans. The walls built in the 1620s still stand today, and are made out of interlocked granite boulders without mortar. Many of the stones were brought from rock quarries near the Seto Inland Sea, and bear inscribed crests of the various families who contributed them. In 1660, lightning ignited the gunpowder warehouse and the resulting explosion set the castle on fire. In 1665, lightning struck and burnt down the main tower. In 1843, after decades of neglect, the castle got much-needed repairs when the bakufu collected money from the people of the region to rebuild several of the turrets. In 1868, Osaka Castle fell and was surrendered to anti-bakufu imperial loyalists. Much of the castle was burned in the civil conflicts surrounding the Meiji Restoration. Under the Meiji government, Osaka Castle was converted to a barracks for Japan's rapidly-expanding Western-style military. In 1928, the main tower was restored after the mayor of Osaka concluded a highly successful fund-raising drive. In 1945, bombing raids on Osaka damaged the reconstructed main tower. In 1995, Osaka's government approved yet another restoration project, with the intent of restoring the main tower to its Edoera splendor. In 1997, restoration was completed. The castle is a concrete reproduction (including elevators) of the original and the interior is intended as a modern, functioning museum.
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Helftecture OJ Osaka Castle. Shuhei Endo 2005
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Helftecture OJ Osaka Castle. Shuhei Endo 2005
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Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan. The Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan is an aquarium located in the ward of Minato in Osaka, Japan, near Osaka Bay. It is one of the largest public aquariums in the world,[6] and is a member of the Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums (JAZA). The walk-through aquarium displays marine life in several habitats comprising 27 tanks in 16 main exhibits with a total volume of 10,941 tons of water. The habitats are from the Ring of Fire area of the Pacific Ocean. The largest tank is 9 metres (30 ft) deep and holds 5,400 cubic metres (190,699 cu ft) of water and a variety of fish including manta rays and a whale shark.[4] The tanks used in the aquarium are made of 314 tonnes (346 tons) of acrylic glass. The largest single pane measures six meters by five meters by thirty centimeters and weighs roughly 10 tons. At the thicknesses used, regular glass would be unwieldy and would not have the desired transparency. The Kaiyukan’s conceptual design, architecture, and exhibit design was led by Peter Chermayeff of Peter Chermayeff LLC while at Cambridge Seven Associates.
Information Address/1-1-10 Kaigan-dori, Minato-ku, Osaka City, ZIP:552-0022 Phone/06-6576-5510 Fee/ÂĽ1,800 Open/10:00-20:00 Close/http://www.kaiyukan.com/language/eng/
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Umeda Sky Building. The Umeda Sky Building is the twelfth-tallest building in Osaka, Japan, and one of the city's most recognizable landmarks. It consists of two 40-story towers that connect at their two uppermost stories, with bridges and an escalator crossing the wide atrium-like space in the center.[1] It is located in Kita-ku. Located in the Umeda district of Kita-ku, the building was originally conceived in 1988 as the "City of Air" project, which planned to create four interconnected towers in northern Osaka. Eventually, practical considerations brought the number of towers down to two. The 173 m (568 ft) building was designed by Hiroshi Hara.[2] It was constructed by Takenaka Corporation and was completed in 1993.[3] The building features a rooftop observatory, The Floating Garden Observatory, as well as an underground market that attempts to recreate the atmosphere of Osaka in the early 20th century.[4] At the base of the towers is an urban garden with walking trails and water features.
[2]Hiroshi Hara(born September 9, 1936) is a Japanese architect and author on architecture. His major works, including Kyōto Station, the Umeda Sky Building in Osaka, the Yamato International building in Tokyo, the Sapporo Dome in Hokkaidō, and other important structures in Japan, have earned many awards. With a doctorate in engineering, he was a professor at the University of Tokyo until 1997, and has held an emeritus position since that time. Hiroshi Hara
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Myoren-ji
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Festival of Higashiyama hanatouro
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Kyoto station. Kyōto Station is the most important transportation hub in Kyoto, Japan. It has Japan's second-largest train station building (after Nagoya Station) and is one of the country's largest buildings, incorporating a shopping mall, hotel, movie theater, Isetan department store, and several local government facilities under one 15-story roof. It also housed the Kyoto City Air Terminal until August 31, 2002. The current Kyōto Station opened in 1997, commemorating Kyoto's 1,200th anniversary. It is 70 meters high and 470 meters from east to west, with a total floor area of 238,000 square meters. Architecturally, it
Station
exhibits many characteristics of futurism, with a slightly irregular cubic facade of plate glass over a steel frame. The architect was Hiroshi Hara. Kyoto, one of the least modern cities in Japan by virtue of its many cultural heritage sites, was largely reluctant to accept such an ambitious structure in the mid-1990s: The station's completion began a wave of new high-rise developments in the city that culminated in the 20-story Kyocera Building. Hence some criticize the station's design for taking part in breaking down the traditional cityscape.
The first Kyōto Station
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Important Cultural Property
Hotel Myoken-ji Address/514 Teranouchi-street Kamikyo-ku Kyoto-city, Zip:602-0005 Phone&Fax/075-414-0808 Closed/irregular Budget/4,500yen- pppn w/(breakfast & dinner is not available)
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check in/18:00 check out/10:00 Curfew/21:00 Wake up/06:00(Spiritual practice/06:00-06:30)
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18 Arashiyama. Arashiyama is a district on the western outskirts of Kyoto, Japan. It also refers to the mountain across the Ōi River, which forms a backdrop to the district. Arashiyama is a nationally-designated Historic Site and Place of Scenic Beauty.[1] Notable tourist sites in Arashiyama include The Iwatayama Monkey Park on the slopes of Mount Arashiyama. Over 170 monkeys live at the park. While the monkeys are wild, they have become accustomed to humans. The park is located on a small mountain not far from the Saga-Arashiyama rail station. Visitors can approach and photograph the monkeys. At the summit is a fenced enclosure, from within which visitors can feed the monkeys. The romantic "Moon Crossing Bridge", notable for its views of cherry blossoms and autumn colors on the slopes of Mt Arashiyama. The tombstone of the Heike courtesan Kogo of Sagano. Tenryū-ji, the main temple of one the 15 branches of the Rinzai school, one of the two main sects of Zen Buddhism in Japan. The hamlet of Kiyotaki, a small scenic village at the base of Mt Atago, the home to a notable Shinto shrine. Matsuo Shrine, half a mile south of the area, which is home to a blessed spring. It is also one of the oldest shrines in the Kyoto area, founded in 700. The alleged restorative properties of the spring bring many local sake and miso companies to the shrine for prayers that their product will be blessed. Kameyama koen has a stone commemorating Zhou Enlai's visit to Arashiyama. He was moved by the cherry blossoms and mountain greenery. The four poems Zhou Enlai wrote about his visit are engraved on a stone monument: "Arashiyama in the Rain." Ōkōchi Sansō, the Japanese-style home and gardens of the film actor Denjirō Ōkōchi.
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Culture of kimono The kimono is a Japanese traditional garment worn by men, women and children. The word "kimono", which literally means a "thing to wear" (ki "wear" and mono "thing"),[2] has come to denote these full-length robes. The standard pThe kimono [1] is a Japanese traditional garment worn by men, women and children. The word "kimono", which literally means a "thing to wear" (ki "wear" and mono "thing"),[2] has come to denote these full-length robes. The standard plural of the word kimono in English is kimonos,[3] but the unmarked Japanese plural kimono is also sometimes used. Kimono are T-shaped, straight-lined robes worn so that the hem falls to the ankle, with attached collars and long, wide sleeves. Kimono are wrapped around the body, always with the left side over the right (except when dressing the dead for burial.),[4] and secured by a sash called an obi, which is tied at the back. Kimono are generally worn with traditional footwear (especially zōri or geta) and split-toe socks (tabi).[5] Today, kimono are most often worn by women, and on special occasions. Traditionally, unmarried women wore a style of kimono called furisode,[5] with almost floor-length sleeves, on special occasions. A few older women and even fewer men still wear the kimono on a daily basis. Men wear the kimono most often at weddings, tea ceremonies, and other very special or very formal occasions. Professional sumo wrestlers are often seen in the kimono because they are required to wear traditional Japanese dress whenever appearing in public.[6]lural of the word kimono in English is kimonos,[3] but the unmarked Japanese plural kimono is also sometimes used. Kimono are T-shaped, straight-lined robes worn so that the hem falls to the ankle, with attached collars and long, wide sleeves. Kimono are wrapped around the body, always with the left side over the right (except when dressing the dead for burial.),[4] and secured by a sash called an obi, which is tied at the back. Kimono are generally worn with traditional footwear (especially zōri or geta) and split-toe socks (tabi).[5] Today, kimono are most often worn by women, and on special occasions. Traditionally, unmarried women wore a style of kimono called furisode,[5] with almost floor-length sleeves, on special occasions. A few older women and even fewer men still wear the kimono on a daily basis. Men wear the kimono most often at weddings, tea ceremonies, and other very special or very formal occasions. Professional sumo wrestlers are often seen in the kimono because they are required to wear traditional Japanese dress whenever appearing in public.[6] Optionnal item!
Warin
If you want to wear kimono, it is possible male and female.
〒 600-8417
You can go sightseen of kyoto by kimono.
Tel:075-343-1515 FAX:075-341-1845
JPN 5,500 ≒ CHF 61 / day (inc all: kimono, obi, zori, bag, hairdressing)
E-MAIL:info@walin.jp URL:http://walin.jp
※ kimono will return next day.
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Saihō-ji / Kokedera. Saihō-ji is a Rinzai Zen Buddhist temple located in Matsuo, Nishikyō Ward, Kyoto, Japan. The temple, which is famed for its moss garden, is commonly referred to as "Koke-dera", meaning "moss temple", and is also known as "Kōinzan Saihō-ji". The temple, primarily constructed to honor Amitabha, was first founded by Gyōki and was later restored by Musō Soseki. In 1994, Saihō-ji was registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, as part of the "Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto". >History According to temple legend, Saihō-ji was constructed during the Nara Period by Gyōki, on the location of one of Prince Shōtoku's former retreats. The temple first operated as a Hossō temple dedicated to Amitabha, and was known as "Saihō-ji", a homophone of the current name. The name was selected because Amitabha is the primary buddha of Western Paradise, known in Japanese as "Saihō Jōdo". Legend states that such famous Japanese monks as Kūkai and Hōnen later served as the chief priests of the temple. Although the veracity of these legends is questionable, it is believed that such a predecessor to the current temple did, in fact, exist. Over time, the temple fell into disrepair, and in 1339, the chief priest of the nearby Matsunoo Shrine, Fujiwara Chikahide, summoned the famous Japanese gardener Musō Soseki to help him revive Saihō-ji as a Zen temple. At this time, Musō decided to
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change the temple's name, to reflect its new Zen orientation. The temple became "Saihō-ji" the name being selected not only
because it was a homophone of the original name, but also because the kanji were used in phrases related to Bodhidharma: "Bodhidharma came from the West" and "Bodhidharma's teachings shall spread and come to bear fruit like a five-petaled flower". Saihō-ji was destroyed by fire during the Ōnin War, and twice ravaged by floods during the Edo Period, but has since been rebuilt. Ironically, the moss for which the temple is known was not part of Musō's original design. According to French historian François Berthier, the garden's "islands" were "carpeted with white sand" in the fourteenth century. The moss came much later, of its own accord during the Meiji era (1860-1912), when the monastery lacked sufficient funds for upkeep.[1] >Layout The famous moss garden of Saihō-ji is situated in the eastern temple grounds. Located in a grove, the garden is arranged as a circular promenade centered around Golden Pond. The pond is shaped like the Chinese character for "heart" or "mind" and contains three small islands: Asahi Island, Yūhi Island, and Kiri Island. The area around the pond is said to be covered with more than 120 varieties of moss, believed to have started growing after the flooding of the temple grounds in the Edo Period. The garden itself contains three tea houses: Shōnan-tei, Shōan-dō, and Tanhoku-tei, which were partially inspired by phrases from the Zen work Blue Cliff Record. Shōnan-tei was originally built during the 14th century, but was subsequently destroyed. It was later restored by Sen Shōan. Iwakura Tomomi was famously sheltered here towards the end of the Edo Period. Shōnan-tei is registered as an important cultural property. Shōan-dō was constructed in 1920, and contains a wooden image of Sen Shōan, after whom the teahouse was named. Tanhoku-tei was donated to the temple in 1928 by potter Zōroku Mashimizu. The eastern temple grounds also contains the main temple hall, the study, and a three-storied pagoda. The main hall of the temple, known as Sairai-dō, was reconstructed in 1969, and it was in this year that the current image of Amitabha was enshrined. The paintings on the sliding doors are the work of Inshō Dōmoto. The three-storied pagoda was erected in 1978, and is used to store copies of sutras, written by Rinzai adherents. The pagoda was constructed to honor Bhaisajyaguru.
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20 Ginkaku-ji. Ginkaku-ji, the "Temple of the Silver Pavilion," is a Zen temple in the Sakyo ward of Kyoto, Japan. It is one of the constructions that represent the Higashiyama Culture of Muromachi period. Ashikaga Yoshimasa initiated plans for creating a retirement villa and gardens as early as 1460;[1] and after his death, Yoshimasa would arrange for this property to become a Zen temple.[2] The official name is Jishō-ji or the "Temple of Shining Mercy." The temple is today associated with the Shokoku-ji branch of Rinzai Zen. The two-storied Kannon-den, is the main temple structure. Its construction began February 21, 1482 (Bummei 14 , 4th day of the 2nd month).[3] The structure's design sought to emulate the golden Kinkaku-ji which had been commissioned by his grandfather Ashikaga Yoshimitsu. It is popularly known as Ginkaku, the "Silver Pavilion" because of the initial plans to cover its exterior in silver foil; but this familiar nickname dates back only as far as the Edo period (1600–1868).[4] During the Ōnin War, construction was halted. Despite Yoshimasa's intention to cover the structure with a distinctive silver-foil overlay, this work was delayed for so long that the plans were never realized before Yoshimasa's death. The present appearance of the structure is understood to be the same as when Yoshimasa himself last saw it. This "unfinished" appearance illustrates one of the aspects of "wabi-sabi" quality.[2] Like Kinkaku-ji, Ginkaku-ji was originally built to serve as a place of rest and solitude for the Shogun. During his reign as
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Shogun, Ashikaga Yoshimasa inspired a new outpouring of traditional culture, which came to be known as Higashiyama Bunka (the Culture of the Eastern Mountain). Having retired to the villa, it is said Yoshimasa sat in the pavilion, contemplating the calm and beauty of the gardens as the Ōnin War worsened and Kyoto was burned to the ground. In 1485, Yoshimasa became a Zen Buddhist monk. After his death on January 27, 1490 (Entoku 2, 7th day of the 1st month),[5] the villa and gardens became a Buddhist temple complex, renamed Jishō-ji after Yoshimasa's Buddhist name. In addition to the temple's famous building, the property features wooded grounds covered with a variety of mosses. The Japanese garden, supposedly designed by the great landscape artist Sōami. The sand garden of Ginkaku-ji has become particularly well known; and the carefully formed pile of sand which is said to symbolize Mount Fuji is an essential element in the garden. After extensive restoration, started February 2008, Ginkaku-ji is again in full glory to visit. The garden and temple complex are open to the public. There is still no silver foil used. After much discussion, it was decided to not refinish the lacquer to the original state. The lacquer finish was the source of the original silver appearance of the temple, with the reflection of silver water of the pond on the lacquer finish. So contrary to Kinkaku- ji is the Ginkaku- ji not silver shining, but still a beautiful temple to visit. Information
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21 Kiyomizu-tera. Kiyomizu-dera, officially Otowa-san Kiyomizu-dera is an independent Buddhist temple in eastern Kyoto. The temple is part of the Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto (Kyoto, Uji and Otsu Cities) UNESCO World Heritage site.[1] >History Kiyomizu-dera was founded in the early Heian period.[2] The temple dates back to 778, and its present buildings were constructed in 1633, during a restoration ordered by the Tokugawa Iemitsu.[3] There is not a single nail used in the entire structure. It takes its name from the waterfall within the complex, which runs off the nearby hills. Kiyomizu means clear water, or pure water.[4][5] It was originally affiliated with the old and influential HossĹ? sect dating from Nara times.[6] However, in 1965 it severed that affiliation, and its present custodians call themselves members of the "KitahossĹ?" sect.[7] The tradition of having aristocratic or persons of imperial lineage serve as chief of the temple ended with the 30th Monzeki, Junnin HosshinnĹ? in the late Edo period. Most of the surviving buildings date from the 17th century, and include a five-story pagoda and an orchard of dwarf cherry trees. The temple itself features some beautifully painted screen walls, and a beautiful walled garden.
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The main hall has a large veranda, supported by tall pillars, that juts out over the hillside and offers impressive views of the city. Large verandas and main halls were constructed at many popular sites during the Edo period to accommodate large numbers of pilgrims.[8] The popular expression "to jump off the stage at Kiyomizu" is the Japanese equivalent of the English expression "to take the plunge".[5] This refers to an Edo period tradition that held that, if one were to survive a 13m jump from the stage, one's wish would be granted. Two hundred thirty-four jumps were recorded in the Edo period and, of those, 85.4% survived.[5] The practice is now prohibited.[5] Beneath the main hall is the Otowa waterfall, where three channels of water fall into a pond. Visitors can catch and drink the water, which is believed to have wish-granting powers. Contrary to popular misconceptions, the three streams of water do not differ in powers; people do however hold their own interpretations of what the three streams represent. The temple complex includes several other shrines, among them the Jishu Shrine, dedicated to ĹŒkuninushi, a god of love and "good matches".[4] Jishu Shrine possesses a pair of "love stones" placed 6 meters/20 feet apart, which lonely visitors can try to walk between with their eyes closed. Success in reaching the other stone with their eyes closed implies that the pilgrim will find love, or true love.[9] One can be assisted in the crossing, but this is taken to mean that a go-between will be needed. The person's romantic interest can assist them as well. The complex also offers various talismans, incense, and omikuji (paper fortunes). The site is particularly popular during festivals (especially at New Year's and during obon in the summer) when additional booths fill the grounds selling traditional holiday foodstuffs and souvenirs to throngs of visitors.[10] In 2007, Kiyomizu-dera was one of 21 finalists for the New Seven Wonders of the World.[11] However, it was not picked as one of the seven winning sites.
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Gion. Gion is a district of Kyoto, Japan, originally developed in the Middle Ages, in front of Yasaka Shrine. The district was built to accommodate the needs of travelers and visitors to the shrine. It eventually evolved to become one of the most exclusive and well-known geisha districts in all of Japan. The geisha in the Gion district do not refer to themselves as geisha; instead, Gion geisha use the local term geiko. While the term geisha means "artist" or "person of the arts", the more direct term geiko means essentially "a child of the arts" or "a woman of art". This neighborhood in Kyoto has two hanamachi (geiko communities): Gion KĹ?bu and Gion Higashi. Despite the considerable decline in the number of geisha in Gion in the last one hundred years, it is still famous for the preservation of forms of traditional architecture and entertainment. Part of this district has been declared a national historical preservation district. Recently, the City of Kyoto completed a project to restore the streets of Gion, which included such plans as moving all overhead utilities underground as part of the ongoing effort to preserve the original beauty of Gion. Gion remains dotted with old-style Japanese houses called machiya, which roughly translated means "townhouse", some of which are ochaya or "tea houses". These are traditional establishments where the patrons of Gion—from the samurai of old to modernday businessmen—have been entertained by geiko and geisha in an exclusive manner for centuries. Inside the ochaya is a private and closed world where the evening's entertainment may include cocktails, conversation, and games as well as traditional Japanese music, singing and dancing. To this day, geiko and maiko (geisha in training) in full regalia can still be seen in the evenings as they move about through the streets of Gion to and from their various engagements at the ochaya. They dance and sing and they entertain for everyone.
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Kinkaku-ji. Kinkaku-ji (Temple of the Golden Pavilion), also known as Rokuon-ji (Deer Garden Temple), is a Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan.[2] The garden complex is an excellent example of Muromachi period garden design.[4] It is designated as a National Special Historic Site and a National Special Landscape, and it is one of 17 locations comprising the Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto World Heritage Site.[5] It is also one of the most popular buildings in Japan, attracting a large number of visitors annually.[6] It has also been made widely familiar as being featured in a photograph in the desktop picture art of Apple's OS X computer operating system, labeled simply as "Golden Palace". >History The site of Kinkaku-ji was originally a villa called Kitayama-dai, belonging to a powerful statesman, Saionji Kintsune.[7] Kinkaku-ji's history dates to 1397, when the villa was purchased from the Saionjis by Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, and transformed into the Kinkaku-ji complex.[7] When Yoshimitsu died, the building was converted into a Zen temple by his son, according to his wishes.[6][8] During the Onin war, all of the buildings in the complex aside from the pavilion were burned down.[7] On July 2, 1950, at 2:30 am, the pavilion was burned down by a 22-year-old novice monk, Hayashi Yoken, who then attempted suicide on the Daimon-ji hill behind the building. He survived, and was subsequently taken into custody. The monk was sentenced to seven years in prison, but was released because of mental illnesses (persecution complex and schizophrenia) on September 29, 1955; he died of tuberculosis shortly after in 1956.[9] During the fire, the original statue of Ashikaga
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Yoshimitsu was lost to the flames (now restored). A fictionalized version of these events is at the center of Yukio Mishima's 1956 book The Temple of the Golden Pavilion.[2] The present pavilion structure dates from 1955, when it was rebuilt.[2] The reconstruction is said to be a copy close to the original, although some doubt such an extensive gold-leaf coating was used on the original structure.[6] In 1984, the coating of Japanese lacquer was found a little decayed, and a new coating as well as gilding with gold-leaf, much thicker than the original coatings (5/10,000mm instead of 1/10,000mm), was completed in 1987. Additionally, the interior of the building, including the paintings and Yoshimitsu's statue, were also restored. Finally, the roof was restored in 2003. >Design details The Golden Pavilion is a three-story building on the grounds of the Rokuon-ji temple complex.[4] The top two stories of the pavilion are covered with pure gold leaf.[4] The pavilion functions as a shariden, housing relics of the Buddha (Buddha's Ashes). The building was an important model for Ginkaku-ji (Silver Pavilion Temple), and ShĹ?koku-ji, which are also located in Kyoto.[2] When these buildings were constructed, Ashikaga Yoshimasa employed the styles used at Kinkaku-ji and even borrowed the names of its second and third floors.[2] Each floor of the Kinkaku uses a different architectural style.[2] The first floor, called The Chamber of Dharma Waters, is rendered in shinden-zukuri style, reminiscent of the residential style of the 11th century Heian imperial aristocracy.[2] The second floor, called The Tower of Sound Waves,[2] is built in the style of warrior aristocrats, or buke-zukuri. The third floor is built in traditional Chinese cha'an style, also known as zenshu-butsuden-zukuri. The building is topped with a bronze phoenix ornament.[4] The Golden Pavilion is set in a magnificent Japanese strolling garden (kaiyuushiki teien).[8] The pavilion extends over a pond, called KyĹ?ko-chi (Mirror Pond), that reflects the building.[7] A small fishing deck (tsuridono) is attached to the rear of the pavilion building, allowing a small boat to be moored under it.[7] The kinkaku-ji grounds were built according to descriptions of the Western Paradise of the Buddha Amida, intending to illustrate a harmony between heaven and earth.[8] The largest islet in the pond represents the Japanese islands.[7] The four stones forming a straight line in the pond near the pavilion are intended to represent sailboats anchored at night, bound for the Isle of Eternal Life in Chinese mythology.[7]
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Ryoan-ji. Ryōan-ji is a Zen temple located in northwest Kyoto, Japan. It belongs to the Myōshin-ji school of the Rinzai branch of Zen Buddhism. The temple garden is considered to be one of the finest examples of a kare-sansui, a Japanese rock garden, or zen garden, in Japan.[1]. The temple and gardens are listed as Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto, and as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. >History The site of the temple was an estate of the Fujiwara family in the 11th century. The first temple, the Daiju-in, and garden were built in that century by Fujiwara Saneyoshi. In 1450, Hosokawa Katsumoto, another powerful warlord, acquired the land where the temple stood. He built his residence there founded a zen temple, Ryōan-ji, on the upper part of the territory of the old temple. During the Ōnin War between the clans, the temple was destroyed. Hosokawa Katsumoto died in 1473. In 1488, his son, Hosokawa Matsumoto, rebuilt the temple, and probably built the rock garden at the same time.[2]. The temple served as a mausoleum for the late Hosokawa emperors. Their tombs are grouped together in what are today known as the "Seven Imperial Tombs" at Ryōan-ji. The burial places of these emperors -- Uda, Kazan, Ichijō, Go-Suzaku, Go-Reizei, GoSanjō, and Horikawa -- would have been comparatively humble in the period after their deaths. These tombs reached their present state as a result of the 19th century restoration of imperial sepulchers (misasagi) which were ordered by Emperor Meiji. There is controversy over who built the garden and when. Most sources date the garden to the second half of the 15th century. [4].According to some sources, the garden was built by Hosokawa Katsumoto, the creator of the first temple of Ryōan-ji, between 1450 and 1473. Other sources say it was built by his son, Hosokawa Matsumoto, in or around 1488. [5].
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Some say that the garden was built by the famous landscape painter and monk, SĹ?ami (died 1525), [6]. but this is disputed by other authors.[7]. Some sources say the garden was built in the first half of the 16th century [8]. Other authors say the garden was probably built much later, during the Edo Period, between 1618 and 1680. [9]. There is also controversy over whether the garden was built by monks, or by professional gardeners, called kawaramono, or a combination of the two. One stone in the garden has the name of two kawaramono carved into it. The original garden is thought to have had a covered viewing gallery on the west side, and to have been a smaller. The temple was destroyed by a fire in 1797. The garden was filled with debris from the fire, and a new rock garden built on top. The gallery was removed, and a new wall behind the garden and viewing veranda were built, A print from 1799 shows the garden essentially as it looks today. In the print it appears that visitors could actually walk in the garden, something not allowed today.[10] Information >The zen garden
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The stones are surrounded by white gravel, which is carefully raked each day by the monks. The only vegetation in the garden is some moss around the stones. The garden is meant to be viewed from a seated position on the veranda of the hĹ?jĹ?, the residence of the abbott of the monastery. [12] The stones are placed so that the entire composition cannot be seen at once from the veranda. They are also arranged so that when looking at the garden from any angle (other than from above) only fourteen of the boulders are visible at one time. It is traditionally said that only through attaining enlightenment would one be able to view the fifteenth boulder. The wall behind the garden is an important element of the garden. It is made of clay, which has been stained by age with subtle brown and orange tones. In 1977, the tile roof of the wall was restored with tree bark to its original appearance.[13] When the garden was first built, it had a view over the wall of the mountains and scenery behind, but the view is now blocked by a screen of trees.[14].
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Ninna-ji. Ninna-ji is the head temple of the Omuro school of the Shingon Sect of Buddhism.[1] Located in western Kyoto, Japan, it was founded in AD 888 by the retired Emperor Uda. It is part of the "Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto", a UNESCO World Heritage Site. >History Ninna-ji was founded in the early Heian period. In 886, Emperor Kōkō ordered the construction of the Nishiyama Goganji Temple to bless the nation and propagate Buddhist teachings, but he did not live to see its completion. Emperor Uda saw the construction to its completion in 888[2] and named it "Ninna" after the regnal year of the late Emperor Kōkō's reign. From 888 to 1869 it was traditional for reigning Emperors to send a son to the temple to take over as head priest when a vacancy arose. After retiring from his throne, Emperor Uda became the first Monzeki, or aristocratic priest, of Ninna-ji. From then on until the end of the Edo period, the temple saw a succession of head priests of imperial lineage. In 1467, the temple was destroyed by fire and fighting in the Ōnin
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of Emperor Go-Yōzei, Kakushin Hosshinnō, who enlisted the help of Tokugawa Iemitsu, the third shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate. The resurrection coincided with the rebuilding of the Imperial Palace in Kyoto and thus received imperial funding.
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26 Kyoto International Conference Center. The Kyoto International Conference Center, abbreviated as ICC Kyoto and previously called the Kyoto International Conference Hall, is a large conference facility located at Takaragaike, SakyĹ?-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. The Kyoto Protocol was signed in this hall. The center was designed by architect Sachio Otani to an unusual hexagonal framework, resulting in few vertical walls or columns, and opened in 1966 with an addition in 1973. Today the total facility provides 156,000 m² of meeting space, and consists of the main Conference Hall with large meeting room (capacity 2,000) and a number of smaller rooms, an Annex Hall (capacity 1,500) and Event Hall, with the Grand Prince Hotel Kyoto nearby. Both Main Hall and Annex Hall are equipped with simultaneous interpreting facilities for nine languages. It is located north of Kyoto proper, and may be reached via the Karasuma Line subway. The complex is the location for the finale of John Frankenheimer's cult 1982 martial arts action film The Challenge, starring Scott Glenn and legendary Japanese star, Toshiro Mifune.
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For the first time in Japan, the design was chosen via a public design competition. Of the 195 entries, the work submitted by Sachio Otani was selected as the most outstanding design. Construction began on January 24, 1964, and was completed on March 20, 1966. The conference center opened on May 21 of that year. Construction of the first addition to the center was decided as needs relating to press center functions increased. Additional construction was thus undertaken for a joint press conference room, a press center and a banquet hall (Sakura). Work was completed in December 1972. Later, an event hall was added in response to growing demand for display facilities. Event Hall can be used for many purposes, in addition to exhibitions and displays. Construction of the hall began in July 1983, and finished in April 1985. The conference center buildings have received high acclaim from the start. They draw on the traditional beauty of Japanese architecture and feature spatial beauty worthy of an international conference center. In 1998, they were selected for inclusion in the <Best 100 Public Buildings>, a project commemorating the 50th anniversary of establishment of the Ministry of Construction. In 2003, the Architectural Institute of Japan included the conference center in its <Best 100 Examples of Modern Movement Architecture in Japan>. Selection was based on the composition of esthetic lines and facets originating in rationalist concepts, and other features of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Sachio Otani (born February 20, 1924) is a noted Japanese architect. Otani was born in Tokyo, and in 1946 graduated from the University of Tokyo. He began his career in Kenzo Tange's studio, where he helped design the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum (1955). In 1960 he started his own practice, and has subsequently designed a number of memorable buildings including the Tokyo Children's Cultural Center (1964), Kyoto International Conference Center (1966), the Kanazawa Institute of Technology (1969), and the Kawaramachi housing project in Kawasaki, Kanagawa (1970).
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Fushimi Inari-taisha. Fushimi Inari Taisha is the head shrine of Inari, located in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Japan. The shrine sits at the base of a mountain also named Inari, and includes trails up the mountain to many smaller shrines. Since in early Japan Inari was seen as the patron of business, each of the Torii is donated by a Japanese business. First and foremost though, Inari is the god of rice. Merchants and manufacturers worship Inari for wealth. Donated torii lining footpaths are part of the scenic view. This popular shrine is said to have as many as 32,000 sub-shrines (bunsha) throughout Japan.[1]
The shrine became the object of Imperial patronage during the early Heian period.[2] In 965, Emperor Murakami ordered that Imperial messengers were sent to report important events to the guardian kami of Japan. These heihaku were initially presented to 16 shrines including the Inari Shrine.[3] From 1871 through 1946, Fushimi Inari-taisha was officially designated one of the Kanpei-taisha, meaning that it stood in the first rank of government supported shrines.[4] The earliest structures were built in 711 on the Inariyama hill in southwestern Kyoto, but the shrine was re-located in 816 on the request of the monk K큰kai. The main shrine structure was built in 1499.[5] At the bottom of the hill are the main gate and the main shrine. Behind them, in the middle of the mountain, the inner shrine is reachable by a path lined with thousands of torii. To the top of the mountain are tens of thousands of mounds for private worship.
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Glass 28 Glass temple / Rengenkou-ji Touseian. The site is located at the foot of Mr. Funayama, one of five northern Kyoto hills famed for their summer bonfires, burnt to suggest souls entering paradise. Reigenko-ji is an imperial temple built by Emperor Gomizuno-o in 1638, within the scenic splendor of Kyoto's Nishi Kamo district. Gomizuno-o, who is perhaps best known for creating the Shugakuin Imperial Temple, constructed Reigenko-ji for the priest Isshibunshu. After Isshibunshu's death in 1671, the retired emperor, wishing to honor the site where the priest had lived and taught, went to great trouble to move the Seiryo-den (emperor's quarters) from the Imperial Palace to this temple for its reconstruction as a Butsuden (Main Hall). Today, Reigenko-ji remains a temple for rites of imperial prayer. When I first visited the temple compound, I felt that my mission would be to respect its long and dignified history and, at the same time, to convey to the future the transparent teachings and pure white spirit of the priest Isshibunshu. The Butsuden (Main Hall), with its slightly convex roofline and the light upswing of its eaves, presented a graceful figure. Originally, the roof had been thatched with shingles, the historical record said. Later, when evidence of that shingle roof was discovered during restoration work on the building, I saw clearly how this building had lived and "breathed" within the flow of time from past to present, and I wanted to ensure the continuance of its life into the future.
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Working, thus, within the flow of time, I sought to overlay our own time on the past in a way that would render it distinct. This was a necessary courtesy, I felt, in intervening in this place of our ancestors, and a matter of proper form in addressing history. In its relationship with the existing buildings, the site could be perceived in terms of four territories. Each -- the cherry tree garden, rock garden, pond garden, and maple tree garden -- presented a different expression. The new building would be placed in the maple tree garden. A maple tree growing on the site since ancient times was as conspicuous in its presence as the Main Hall. The new building was conceived as an architecturalization of the garden. The entire building was placed underground. With exceeding care, I situated a void -- 6x22m in plan and 6m deep -- at a slight, 5-degree angle to the Main Hall and Study, centering on the maple tree. Inside the void I inserted a white volume, 15x3.6m in plan and 6m high. Only a transparent glass box appears above ground, as a top light for the white underground space. A light court of frosted glass vertically penetrates the building. This court is a void, in terms of the exterior, but within the building it is perceived as a volume of light. Thus, the relationship of void to volume in this building reverses as one travels between its interior and exterior spaces. A soft, balanced light diffuses through the frosted glass into the interior space. A different kind of light penetrates the transparent glass of the top light, imparted a contrasting expression within the building. All light that enters the building is amplified in the space of the white interior, so that it erases all form and contour. Above ground, the garden is spread with white gravel. Through the arbitration of the garden, the new space responds to, and finds connection with, the existing Main Hall and Study. Enveloped by the lush natural greenery of Nishi Kamo, the new building and the old buildings from the ancient past stand mutually independent, yet joined in a relationship of harmony for their journey to the future.
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Katsura Imperial Villa. The Katsura Imperial Villa, or Katsura Detached Palace, is a villa with associated gardens and outbuildings in the western suburbs of Kyoto, Japan (in Nishikyō-ku, separate from the Kyoto Imperial Palace). It is one of Japan's most important largescale cultural treasures. Its gardens are a masterpiece of Japanese gardening, and the buildings are even more important, one of the greatest achievements of Japanese architecture. The palace includes a shoin ("drawing room"), tea houses, and a strolling garden. It provides an invaluable window into the villas of princes of the Edo period. The palace formerly belonged to the princes of the Hachijō-no-miya family. The Imperial Household Agency administers it, and accepts visitors by appointment. The Katsura district of Kyoto has long been favored for villas, and in the Heian period, Fujiwara no Michinaga had a villa there. The members of the Heian court found it an elegant location for viewing the moon. Prince Hachijō Toshihito (1579–1629), the first of the Hachijō-no-miya line, established the villa at Katsura. The prince was a descendant of Emperor Ogimachi, and younger brother of Emperor Go-Yozei. Once adopted by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, he cancelled the adoption when Hideyoshi had a son, and founded the Hachijō-no-miya house. The shoin of Katsura Imperial Villa is divided into three parts: the Old Shoin, the Middle Shoin, and the New Palace. The Old Shoin was built in around 1616.[1] The construction of the shoin, teahouse and garden continued in the time of the second prince, Toshitada (1619–1662), and reached completion after some decades. The Hachijō-no-miya house changed its name to Tokiwai-no-miya, Kyōgoku-no-miya, and finally Katsura-no-miya, before the line died out in 1881. The Imperial Household Ministry took control of the Katsura Detached Palace in 1883, and since World War II, the Imperial Household Agency has been in control. The Old Shoin, Middle Shoin and New Palace are each in the shoin style, with irimoya kokerabuki roofs. The Old Shoin shows elements of the sukiya style in places like the veranda. A space called the moon-viewing platform protrudes even farther from the veranda, and shows that the main theme of Katsura Detached Palace was moon-viewing. The walls of the Middle Shoin and New Palace have ink-paintings by the school of Kanō Tan'yū. The shelving in the upper room of the New Palace is considered especially noteworthy. The strolling garden takes water from the Katsura River for the central pond, around which are the Shōkintei, Shōkatei, Shōiken, and Gepparō; tea houses, hill, sand, bridge, and lanterns. There is also a Buddhist hall, Onrindō.
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Himeji Castle. Himeji Castle is a hilltop Japanese castle complex located in Himeji, in the Hyōgo Prefecture. The castle is regarded as the finest surviving example of prototypical Japanese castle architecture, comprising a network of 83 buildings with advanced defensive systems from the feudal period.[8] The castle is frequently known as Hakuro-jō ("White Egret Castle") or Shirasagi-jō ("White Heron Castle") because of its brilliant white exterior and supposed resemblance to a bird taking flight.[6][9] Himeji Castle dates to 1333, when Akamatsu Norimura built a fort on top of Himeyama hill. The fort was dismantled and rebuilt as Himeyama Castle in 1346, and then remodeled into Himeji Castle two centuries later. Himeji Castle was then significantly remodeled in 1581 by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who added a three-story castle keep. In 1600, Tokugawa Ieyasu awarded the castle to Ikeda Terumasa for his help in the Battle of Sekigahara, and Ikeda completely rebuilt the castle from 1601 to 1609, expanding it into a large castle complex.[2] Several buildings were later added to the castle complex by Honda Tadamasa from 1617 to 1618.[4] For over 400 years, Himeji Castle has remained intact, even throughout the extensive bombing of Himeji in World War II, and natural disasters such as the 1995 Great Hanshin earthquake.[2][7][10] Himeji Castle is the largest and most visited castle in Japan, and it was registered in 1993 as one of the first UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the country.[7] The area within the middle moat of the castle complex is a designated Special Historic Site and five structures of the castle are also designated National Treasures.[4][11] Along with Matsumoto Castle and Kumamoto Castle, Himeji Castle is considered one of Japan's three premier castles.[12] In order to preserve the castle buildings, it is currently undergoing restoration work that is expected to continue for several years.[7] Himeji Castle is the largest castle in Japan.[7] It serves as an excellent example of prototypical Japanese castle architecture, containing many of the defensive and architectural features associated with Japanese castles.[8] The curved walls of Himeji Castle are sometimes said to resemble giant fans ( 扇子 sensu?), but the principle materials used in the structures are stone and wood.[4][6] Feudal family crests ( 紋 mon?) are installed throughout the architecture of the building, signifying the various lords that inhabited the castle throughout its history.[4]
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Castle are sometimes said to resemble giant fans, but the principle materials used in the structures are stone and wood.[4][6] Feudal family crests are installed throughout the architecture of the building, signifying the various lords that inhabited the castle throughout its history.[4] The Himeji Castle complex is located in the center of Himeji, HyĹ?go on top of a hill called Himeyama, which is 45.6 m (150 ft) above sea level.[5] The castle complex comprises a network of 83 buildings such as storehouses, gates, corridors, and turrets.[4] Of these 83 buildings, 74 are designated as Important Cultural Assets: 11 corridors, 16 turrets, 15 gates, and 32 earthen walls. [10] The highest walls in the castle complex have a height of 26 m (85 ft).[4] Joining the castle complex is Koko-en Garden, a Japanese garden created in 1992 to commemorate Himeji city's 100th anniversary.[15] From east to west, the Himeji Castle complex has a length of 950 to 1,600 m (3,117 to 5,249 ft), and from north to south, it has a length of 900 to 1,700 m (2,953 to 5,577 ft).[4] The castle complex has a circumference of 4,200 m (2.53 mi).[4] It covers an area of 233 hectares (2,330,000 m2 or 576 acres), making it roughly 50 times as large as the Tokyo Dome or 60 times as large as Koshien Stadium.[2][4][8]
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The castle keep at the center of the complex is 46.4 m (152 ft) high, standing 92 m (302 ft) above sea level.[5] Together with the keep, three smaller subsidiary towers form a cluster of towers.[4] Externally, the castle keep appears to have five floors, because the second and third floors from the top appear to be a single floor; however, the tower actually has six floors and a basement.[9] The basement of the keep has an area of 385 m2 (4,144 ft2), and the interior of the keep contains special facilities that are not seen in other castles, including lavatories, a drain board, and a kitchen corridor.[4] The keep has two pillars, with one standing in the east and one standing in the west.[4] The east pillar, which has a base diameter of 97 cm (38 in), was originally a single fir tree, but it has since been mostly replaced.[4] The base of the west pillar is 85 by 95 cm (33 by 37 in), and it is made of Japanese cypress.[4] During the Shōwa Restoration (1956–1964) a Japanese cypress tree with a length of 26.4 m (87 ft) was brought down from the Kiso Mountains and replaced the old pillar.[4] The tree was broken in this process, so another tree was brought down from Mount Kasagata, and the two trees were joined on the third floor.[4] The first floor of the keep has an area of 554 m2 (5,963 ft2) and is often called the "thousand-mat room" because it has over 330 Tatami mats.[4] The walls of the first floor have weapon racks for holding matchlocks and spears, and at one point, the castle contained as many as 280 guns and 90 spears.[4][16] The second floor of the keep has an area of roughly 550 m2 (5,920 ft2).[4] The third floor has an area of 440 m2 (4,736 ft2) and the fourth floor has an area of 240 m2 (2,583 ft2).[4] Both the third and fourth floors have platforms situated at the north and south windows called "stone-throwing platforms", where defenders could observe or throw objects at attackers.[4] They also have small enclosed rooms called "warrior hiding places", where defenders could hide themselves and kill attackers by surprise as they entered the keep.[4] The final floor, the sixth floor, has an area of only 115 m2 (1,237 ft2).[4] The sixth floor windows now have iron bars in place, but in the feudal period the panoramic view from the windows was unobstructed.[4]
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Kōraku-en. Kōraku-en, is a Japanese garden located in Okayama, Okayama Prefecture. It is one of the Three Great Gardens of Japan, along with Kenroku-en and Kairaku-en. Korakuen was built in 1700 by Ikeda Tsunamasa, lord of Okayama. The garden's form almost had turned into the modern form in 1863.[citation needed] In 1687, the daimyo Ikeda Tsunamasa ordered Tsuda Nagatada to begin construction of the Korakuen. It was completed in 1700 and has retained its original appearance to the present day, except for a few changes by various daimyo. The Korakuen is one of the few daimyo gardens in the provinces where historical change can be observed, thanks to the many Edo period paintings and Ikeda family records and documents left behind. The garden was used as a place for entertaining important guests and also as a spa of sorts for daimyo, although regular folk could visit on certain days. In 1884, ownership was transferred to Okayama Prefecture and the garden was opened to the public. The garden suffered severe damage during the floods of 1934 and during World War II bombing in 1945, but has been restored based on Edo period paintings and diagrams. In 1952, the Korakuen was designated as a "Special Scenic Location" under the Cultural Properties Protection Law and is managed as a historical cultural asset to be passed to future generations. Among the garden’s points of special interest are: The total area of the garden is approximately 133,000 square meters. The grassy area is approximately 18,500 square meters. The length of the stream is 640 meters. The garden was originally called Koen ("later garden") because it was built after Okayama Castle. However, since the garden was built in the spirit of "sen-yu-koraku" ("grieve earlier than others, enjoy later than others"), the name was changed to Korakuen in 1871. The garden was designed in the Kaiyu ("scenic promenade") style which presents the visitor with a new view at every turn of the path which connects the lawns, ponds, hills, tea houses, and streams.
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50 Naoshima Bath "I ♥湯 ". This is an art facility created by artist Shinro Ohtake where visitors are actually able to take a bath. "I ♥ 湯 " was created to provide both a place for Naoshima residents to rejuvenate and a venue for exchanges between Japanese and international visitors and locals. Designed in collaboration with the creative group graf, the exterior and fittings of the bathhouse, from the bath itself to the pictures decorating the walls, the mosaics, and even the toilet fittings, reflect the world of Shinro Ohtake. The bathhouse is operated by the Town-Naoshima Tourism Association and the Miyanoura District Association. Come visit and soak in the tub, and experience art with your entire body.
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Shinro Ohtake was born in Tokyo, 1955. Mr. Shinro Ohtake made an impressive
Address/252-2 Naoshima, Kagawa Zip:761-3110
debut in the early 1980s, representing a new style of painting in Japan. He has been
Phone/087-892-2626 Fee/¥500 Open/14:00-21:00
active since then in Japan and overseas. His stance of constantly suggesting new value systems and struggling against a sense of closure in the art world has won enthusiastic support from people inside and outside of the art community.
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Honmura Lounge & Archive. Formerly a cooperative supermarket, this building was renovated by architect Ryue Nishizawa to create Honmura Lounge & Archive, leaving the original structure essentially unchanged. Here visitors can find books and other material by and about the artists and architects who have contributed to Benesse Art Site Naoshima art projects. Related items and books are also sold. Information about the nearby Art House Project is also available, and guides can be arranged. Architecture: Ryue Nishizawa
Information of Art house projects Address/850-2 Naoshima, Kagawa Zip:761-3110 Japan Phone/087-892-3223 Fee/짜1000 (inc 7 house projects) Open/10:00-14:30 Close/Monday
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Kadoya. Kadoya was the first art house completed. This nearly 200-year old house was restored using Japanese plaster, smoked cedar Tatsuo Miyajima was born in Tokyo, 1957. MA in painting, Tokyo National
board, and traditional tiles. Inside, Tatsuo Miyajima's Sea of
University of Fine Arts and Music. Major exhibitions include Venice Biennale
Time '98 was created with participation from local residents.
Aperto (1988), Big Time (1996, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, exhibited the following year at Hayward Gallery, London), and Art in You (2008, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki). Contributed to Standard at Benesse Art Site Naoshima in 2001.
Works: Tatsuo Miyajima / Sea of Time '98 , 1998 / Naoshima's Counter Window , 1998 / Changing Landscape , 1999 Architecture: Tadashi Yamamoto
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41 Minamidera. Located in the historical and cultural heart of Naoshima near Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines (Gokuraku-ji and Hachiman Jinja), Minamidera is a new structure that pays homage to a temple formerly at this site, which was a spiritual gathering place for the community. Designed by Tadao Ando, accounting for the size of artwork by James Turrell inside. Works: James Turrell / Backside of the Moon , 1999 Architecture: Tadao Ando
James Turrell was born in 1943 in Los Angeles, California. MFA, Claremont Graduate School. Major Turrell exhibitions have been held in 1980 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and in 1995 at Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki. Significant works include the Roden Crater project (1979 to present, Arizona), House of Light (2000, Niigata), and three works introduced in 2004 at Chichu Art Museum: Afrum, Pale Blue together with Open Sky and Open Field.
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Kinza. Kinza was formerly a small house, well over a century old. The original roof and supporting structures are still intact, but traditional techniques have been employed to transform the building (including the outer walls) into a work of art. Visitors enter Kinza one at a time. Works: Rei Naito / Being Given , 2001 Architecture: Masaru Kimura, Sunao Nagata (Art Station)
Information of Kinza Address/Naoshima, Kagawa Zip:761-3110 Japan Phone/087-892-3223 Fee/ยฅ500 Open/11:00-13:00, 14:00-16:30 Day open/Thursday to Sunday and holidays
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Rei Naito was born in Hiroshima, 1961. Degree in visual communication design from Musashino Art University, 1985. Major exhibitions and projects include Being Given (2001, Kinza Naoshima Art House Project, Benesse Art Site Naoshima), Une place sur la terre/Tokyo 2002 (2002, Rice Gallery by G2, Tokyo), Une place sur la terre/New York 2003 (2003, D'Amelio Terras, New York), Matrix (2007, Nizayama Forest Art Museum, Toyama), Yokohama 2008: International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Kanagawa, and Frรกgil (Museo de Arte Contemporรกneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia).
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Hiroshi Sugimoto was born in Tokyo, 1948. Major exhibitions include
a new front structure at this Edo period shrine. An optical glass
Sugimoto (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), Hiroshi Sugimoto (Mori
staircase links the main building to an underground stone chamber, uniting heaven and earth. Aesthetically, the main and front structures draw on the architectural style of early shrines (such as the Grand Shrine of Ise) while reflecting the artist's own sensibilities. Works: Hiroshi Sugimoto / Appropriate Proportion , 2002 Architecture: Hiroshi Sugimoto + Masaru Kimura, Toshio Shitara (Art Station)
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Art Museum, Tokyo), and traveling exhibits at other sites from 1995 to 1998, as well as History of History (21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa), which was also presented at the National Museum of Art, Osaka in 2008 and 2009. At Benesse Art Site Naoshima, Mr. Sugimoto has contributed to Out of Bounds: Contemporary Art in Seascape (1994, Tokyo), Standard (2001), and Naoshima Standard 2 (2006-2007).
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Ishibashi. Hiroshi Senju was born in Tokyo, 1958. PhD, Tokyo National University of
One industry in Naoshima about a century ago was salt
Fine Art and Music. Honorable mention in painting category, 46th Venice
making. The Ishibashi family prospered in this business, and
Biennale (1995). Significant works include the Flat Water and Waterfalls series. Public art by Mr. Senju includes a series of panels for the Daitokuji-
restoring the building where the family lived was identified as
Jukoin-Betsuin temple (2002, Shizuoka) and murals for Terminal 2 at
a significant way to bring Naoshima's historical and cultural
the Tokyo International Airport, Haneda (2004, Tokyo). A contributor to
heritage into clearer perspective.
Naoshima Standard 2, (2006-2007).
Works: Hiroshi Senju/ The Falls , 2006 / The Garden of Ku , 2009 Architecture: Hiroshi Senju, Yuji Akimoto + Soichiro Fukutake, Tadakatsu Honda
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Gokaisho. Gokaisho (literally "a meeting place to play go") was built where a gathering place for go players once stood. Artist Yoshihiro Suda turned the entire building into an ideal presentation setting for his Tree of Spring sculpture inside, which was inspired by the painting Falling Camellia by Hayami Gyoshu. There is an intriguing contrast between this sculpture and the real camellia outside in the garden. Works: Hiroshi Sugimoto / Yoshihiro Suda / Gokaisho , 2006 Architecture: Yoshihiro Suda, Yuji Akimoto + Tadakatsu Honda
Yoshihiro Suda was born in Yamanashi, 1969. BA in graphic design, Tama Art University (1992). Major exhibitions include Ginza Weed Theory (1993, Tokyo), Yoshihiro Suda (2004, Palais de Tokyo, Paris), and Yoshihiro Suda (2006, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Arts, Kagawa). At Benesse Art Site Naoshima, Mr. Suda has contributed to Standard (2001) and Naoshima Standard 2 (2006-2007) and has created the commissioned work, Weeds (2002).
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46 Haisha. Haisha (literally "dentist"), once the home and office of a local dentist, has been completely transformed by artist Shinro Ohtake into a sculptural/graphic work of art-or perhaps a kind of sculptural scrapbook with various elements-in any case, an art house combining an array of eclectic styles. Dreaming Tongue, the title of the artwork, represents the process of calling to mind a dream from the tastes and aromas of a morsel in one's mouth. Works: Shinro Ohtake / Dreaming Tongue/Bokkon-Nozoki , 2006 Shinro Ohtake was born in Tokyo, 1955. Mr. Ohtake made an impressive
Architecture: Shinro Ohtake
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Lee Ufan Museum. A museum resulting from collaboration between the internationally acclaimed artist Lee Ufan, presently based mainly in Europe, and the architect Tadao Ando. The Ando-designed semi-underground structure houses paintings and sculptures by Lee spanning a period from the 1970s to the present day. Lee's works resonate with Ando's building, giving visitors an impression of both stillness and dynamism. Positioned in isolation in a valley surrounded by mountains and sea, the museum offers a harmony between nature, architecture, and art, where visitors will be offered an opportunity to return to their original natures and to find time for quiet reflection in a society overflowing with material goods. Works: Lee Ufan Architecture: Tadao Ando
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Lee Ufan wasborn in 1936, Korea. Graduated from Nihon University,
Zip:761-3110 Japan
Department of Philosophy, Tokyo in 1961. Professor Emeritus of Tama Art
email/chichu-info@fukutake-artmuseum.jp
University. Major exhibitions include Lee Ufan (2001, Kunstmuseum Bonn), Lee Ufan: The
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Chichu Art Museum was constructed in 2004 as a site rethinking the relationship between nature and people. Artworks by Claude Monet, James Turrell, and Walter De Maria are on permanent display in a building designed by Tadao Ando. Taking form as artists and architect bounced ideas off each other, the building in its entirety can be called a massive site-specific art work. To ensure that the museum does not affect the beautiful scenery of Naoshima, the majority of the building is located underground. Despite its positioning, it receives an abundance of natural light, changing the appearance of the artworks and the ambience of the space itself with the passage of the days and the seasons. Works: Claude Monet, Walter De Maria, James Turrell Architecture: Tadao Ando Claude Monet: Five paintings from the Water Lilies series produced by the great Impressionist painter Claude Monet in his last years can be enjoyed in the natural light of the museum. The size of the room, its design, and the materials used were selected to integrate Monet's works with the surrounding space.
Information Address/3449-1 Azakuraura, Naoshima, Kagawa Zip:761-3110 Japan
Walter De Maria was born in 1935 in Albany, California. Studied history and
Phone/087-892-3755
obtained a master's degree in art at the University of California, Berkeley from
email/chichu-info@fukutake-artmuseum.jp
1953 to 1959, after which he has lived in New York.
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Significant Works: The Lightning Field (1977, New Mexico), The New York
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Earth Room (1977, New York), The Broken Kilometer (1979, New York), Seen/ Unseen Known/Unknown (2000, Naoshima).
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49 Benesse House Museum. Benesse House Museum opened in 1992 as a facility integrating a museum with a hotel, based on the concept "Coexistence of nature, art and architecture." The facility consists of four buildings, all designed by Tadao Ando: Museum, Oval (opened in 1995), Park and Beach (both opened in 2006). The Museum, which performs the complex's principal function of displaying art, is an imposing structure open to the outside world, and visitors can sense the presence of nature even inside the building. In addition to the works in its collection, the Museum also contains permanent site-specific installations that artists have created specially for this building, locating the installations on their own and designing the works for those spaces. In fact, the Museum's artworks are found not just within its galleries, but in all parts of the building, as well as in scattered locations along the seashore that borders the complex and in the nearby forest. One of the pleasures of visiting Benesse House is unexpectedly encountering works of art, not only within the walls of the Museum but also while strolling around the grounds, enjoying the abundant natural beauty of the Inland Sea region. Works: Architecture: Tadao Ando Information Address/Gotanji, Naoshima, Kagawa Zip:7613-110 Japan Phone/087-892-3223 Fee/짜1,000 Open/09:00-21:00 Closed/Monday
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Ryokan Shioya Cin.na.mon
08:50 Check out Naoshima hotel A.B
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Check out timetable Ship
1 2 3
Ship
1 2 3
Miyanoura dep
Ieura arv
Ieura dep
Inujima arv
09：20 11：55 14：35
09：42 12：17 →
09：50 12：25 →
10：15 12：50 15：12
Inujima dep
Ieura arv
Ieura dep
Miyanoura arv
10：25 13：00 15：20
→ 13：25 15：45
Inujima port
13:00
→ 13：35 15：55
Naoshima hotel C
11：02 13：57 16：17
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Inujima Art House Project
12:00
Around 4 house project
Shikoku kisen 125
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Inujima Art Project Seirensho
10:30
Inujima-Teshima
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Miyanoura port
09:00
Meeting Yakuba mae
09:28
Miyanoura port
09:33
0'05 0'30 0'10
Inujima port
10:15
Ieura port
09:42
Miyanoura port
09:20
Shikoku kisen
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Shikoku kisen Ieura port
Ieura port bus stop station
Lunch time
13:25
14:20
13:30
JR Okayama station
JR Chayamachi station
18:29
18:49
18:08
0'20 Transit
0'04 Seto-ohashi line
Shinkansen JR Shin-Osaka station
18:04
Transit
Uno line
02
Hotel Chuo Oasis
20:30
19:35
Free time
Check in Osaka hotel
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Museum bus stop station
Teshima museum
14:40
14:34
JR Uno station
17:41
Uno port
Karato port
17:19
Meeting on station
16:20
Shodoshima ferry
Enjoy night of Osaka
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Inujima Art Project Seirensho. Inujima Art Project Seirensho is a museum that preserves and reuses the remains of a copper refinery on the island. Based on the concept of using the existing to create the yet-to-be, the project brings together architecture by Hiroshi Sambuichi, which makes use of the existing smokestacks and karami bricks from the refinery and uses solar, geothermal, and other natural energies to reduce the burden on the environment, and art by Yukinori Yanagi, which uses Yukio Mishima, who sounded warnings over aspects of Japan's modernization, as a motif. The building also employs a sophisticated water purification system that makes use of the power of plants. The project truly embraces the concept of a recycling-based society as a model for a new type of regional revitalization through industrial heritage, architecture, art, and the environment.
Heritage of Industrial Modernization Copper refineries were often constructed on the islands of the Seto Inland Sea in order to prevent pollution and from considerations of convenience in the transportation of raw materials. However, operation of the Inujima refinery, which had been constructed using local funds in 1909, was discontinued after only 10 years due to a massive plunge in the price of copper. Present-day Inujima features many traces of the large-scale refinery preserved in good condition, including the remains of a factory built using karami bricks produced from the slag generated by the refining process, and refinery smokestacks. In 2007, the Inujima refinery site was designated as "Story 30" in the "33 Heritage Constellations of Industrial Modernization" by the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, because of its groundbreaking role in Japan's industrial development.
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Information Address/327-5 Inujima, Higashi-ku, Okayama Zip:704-8153, Japan Phone/086-947-1112 email/inujima-info@fukutake-artmuseum.jp Fee/짜1,000 Open/10:00-16:30 Closed/Tuesdays
http://www.benesse-artsite.jp/en/seirensho/ index.html
Artworks: Yukinori Yanagi An art work created in five separate spaces, combining the process of architectural design with a motif featuring Yukio Mishima, a novelist who warned of Japan's process of modernization, over the Inujima refinery, a formerly prosperous site that contributed to Japan's modernization, but which now exists only as ruins. This work questions Japan's modern society and its future orientation. Architecture: Hiroshi Sambuichi The architecture of Seirensho uses geological features, the heritage of industrial modernization, and natural energies to create a facility that changes and grows constantly as part of the natural cycles and the geography. Seirensho creates an environment that is considerate of nature, using a sophisticated water purification system that employs the power of plants. Among other measures, vegetation was planted that is suited to Inujima, based on the results of an environmental survey. Yukinori Yanagi was born in 1959 in Fukuoka Prefecture. Associate professor, Faculty of Art, Hiroshima City University (since 2005). After a solo exhibition at Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum in 1992, Mr. Yanagi has established deeper ties with the Inland Sea area and island of Naoshima. In 2008 through the Inujima Art Project Seirensho, the artist collaborated with architects to create a permanent installation.
Yukinori Yanagi was born in 1968. Graduate of the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science. Established Sambuichi Architects, based in Hiroshima, after working with Shinichi Ogawa and Associates. Award-winning projects include Running Green Project (2000 SD Review New Architect Award and 2001 Canada Green Design Grand Prix Award, Canada), Miwa Craft Potters Building, Kiln and Air House (2001 SD Review Asakura Award, 2003 ar+d Award (England), and 2005 Detail Prize (Germany); also received the 19th Yoshioka Award, 2003 for Air House.
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Inujima Art House Project. This project continues from the Seirensho project opened in April 2008, and is being undertaken in the residential areas of Inujima. Art director Yuko Hasegawa and architect Kazuyo Sejima are creating three galleries and the Nakanotani Gazebo, which will transform and revitalize the scenery of the island. The works of artist Yukinori Yanagi will also be exhibited. By contrast with the Seirensho, which is presented against the backdrop of Inujima's historical landscape, the Inujima Art House Project will introduce art spaces into daily life, and will transform the scenery of the island's residential areas.
Information Address/327-5 Inujima, Higashi-ku, Okayama Zip:704-8153, Japan Phone/086-947-1112 email/inujima-info@fukutake-artmuseum.jp Fee/짜500 Open/10:00-16:30 Closed/Tuesdays
http://www.benesse-artsite.jp/en/seirensho/index.html
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Artworks: Yukinori Yanagi The three artworks included in the Inujima Art House Project will look at the collapse of the dollar-based financial system with the intensification of globalization, and will suggest orientations for a new multi-dimensional economic structure and for the future of culture. Architecture: Kazuyo Sejima To ensure the integration of art and architecture with daily life and the local scenery, the three galleries being situated in the residential areas of Inujima will use private residences restored using tile and wood, and buildings that use materials such as transparent acrylic and aluminum that will mirror the scenery. This project will create new sights within the scenery of Inujima.
Yukinori Yanagi was born in 1959 in Fukuoka Prefecture. Associate professor, Faculty of Art, Hiroshima City University (since 2005). After a solo exhibition at Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum in 1992, Mr. Yanagi has established deeper ties with the Inland Sea area and island of Naoshima. In 2008 through the Inujima Art Project Seirensho, the artist collaborated with architects to create a permanent installation.
Kazuyo Sejima was born in 1956 in Ibaraki Prefecture. MA, Japan Women's University (1981). After working at Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects (1981-1987), established Kazuyo Sejima & Associates in 1987, followed by SANAA with Ryue Nishizawa in 1995. Architect and Professor, Keio University. Awarded the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize (the "Nobel Prize" of architecture) for work with SANNA in 2010.
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Teshima Art Museum. Uniting the creative visions of artist Rei Naito and architect Ryue Nishizawa, Teshima Art Museum stands on a hill on the island of Teshima overlooking the Inland Sea. Shaped like a drop of water, the museum lies in a corner of the spacious grounds surrounded by once-fallow rice terraces that have been restored with help from local residents. Structurally, the building consists of a concrete shell, devoid of pillars, coving a space 40 by 60 meters. On the highest ceiling 4.5 meters above, two oval openings allow the air, sounds, and light of the world outside into this organic space where nature and architecture seem intimately interconnected. Inside one finds an ever-flowing fountains and an ambiance that changes from hour to hour and season to season, revealing countless appearances as time passes.
Information Address/607 karato, Teshima, Tonosho-cho, Shozu-gun, Kagawa Zip:761-4662 Japan Phone/0879-68-3555 Fee/짜1,500 Open/10:00-17:00 Closed/Tuesdays
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Artworks: Rei Naito Architecture: Ryue Nishizawa
Rei Naito was born in Hiroshima, 1961. Degree in visual communication design from Musashino Art University, 1985. Her permanent : site-specific work Being Given (2001, Kinza Naoshima Art House Project, Benesse Art Site Naoshima). Major exhibitions and projects : include Une place sur la Terre (1997, Japanese Pavillion, The 47th Venice Biennale), Being Called (1997, Galerie im Karmeliterkloster, Frankfurt am Main), Une place sur la terre/Tokyo 2002 (2002, Rice Gallery by G2, Tokyo), Une place sur la terre/New York 2003 (2003, D'Amelio Terras, New York), matrix (2007, Nizayama Forest Art Museum, Toyama), and Tout animal eat dans le monde comme de l'eau Ă l'intĂŠrieur de l'eau (2009, the Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Kanagawa).
Ryue Nishizawa was brorn in Tokyo, 1966. Degree in M.A. (Architecture), Yokohama National University, and joined Kazuyo Sejima & Associates in 1990, established SANAA with her in 1995, established Office of Ryue Nishizawa in 1997. Professor of Yokohama Graduate School of Architecture. Recipient of international awards, including the Gold Lion at the 9th Venice Architecture Biennale, in 2004, and the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2010. Significant Works: Weekend House (1998, Gunma), 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa* (2004, Ishikawa), Honmura Lounge & Archive (2004, Naoshima, Kagawa), Moriyama House (2002-05, Tokyo), Marine Station Naoshima* (2006, Naoshima), Towada Art Center (2008, Aomori). *co-designed with Sejima Kazuyo.
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Todai-ji
13:00
JR Nara station
09:54
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Come home to Osaka
14:00
17:00
Zurich airport
Paris airport
07:35
Paris airport
18:40
1'20
17:00
1'40 Transit
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Get home! 141
kansai airport
11:30
12'30 Departure
09:13
Hotel Chuo Oasis
09:00
Optional trip
Go out
Free around on Kansai area
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kansai airport
09:30
Hotel Chuo Oasis
08:32
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Osaka hotel
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Free around on Kansai area
JR Shinimamiya station
Osaka hotel
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Nara
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Tōdai-ji. Tōdai-ji,[1] is a Buddhist temple complex located in the city of Nara, Japan. Its Great Buddha Hall, the largest wooden building in the world,[2] houses the world's largest bronze statue of the Buddha Vairocana,[2] known in Japanese simply as Daibutsu. The temple also serves as the Japanese headquarters of the Kegon school of Buddhism. The temple is a listed UNESCO World Heritage Site as "Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara", together with seven other sites including temples, shrines and places in the city of Nara. Sika deer, regarded as messengers of the gods in the Shinto religion, roam the grounds freely. In 743, Emperor Shōmu issued a law in which he stated that the people should become directly involved with the establishment of new Buddha temples throughout Japan. His personal belief was that such piety would inspire Buddha to protect his country from further disaster. Gyōki, with his pupils, traveled the provinces asking for donations. According to records kept by Tōdai-ji, more than 2,600,000 people in total helped construct the Great Buddha and its Hall.[6][7] The 16 m (52 ft)[8] high statue was built through eight castings over three years, the head and neck being cast together as a separate element.[9] The making of the statue was started first in Shigaraki. After enduring multiple fires and earthquakes, the construction was eventually resumed in Nara in 745,[6] and the Buddha was finally completed in 751. A year later, in 752, the eye-opening ceremony was held with an attendance of 10,000 people to celebrate the completion of the Buddha. The Indian priest Bodhisena performed the eye-opening for Emperor Shōmu. The project nearly bankrupted Japan's economy, consuming most of the available bronze of the time.
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The original complex also contained two 100 m pagodas, perhaps second only to the pyramids of Egypt in height at the time.
These were destroyed by earthquake. The Shōsōin was its storehouse, and now contains many artifacts from the Tenpyo period of Japanese history. The Great Buddha Hall (Daibutsuden) has been rebuilt twice after fire. The current building was finished in 1709, and although immense—57 m long and 50 m wide—it is actually 30% smaller than its predecessor. Nevertheless, the Daibutsuden is considered the largest building in the world made primarily of wood. The Great Buddha statue has been recast several times for various reasons, including earthquake damage. The current hands of the statue were made in the Momoyama Period (1568–1615), and the head was made in the Edo period (1615–1867). The existing Nandaimon (Great South Gate) is a reconstruction of end-12th century based on Song Dynasty style. The dancing figures of the Nio, the two 28-foot-tall guardians at the Nandaimon, were built at around the same time by Unkei, Kaikei and their workshop members. The Nio are an A-un pair known as Ungyo, which by tradition has a facial expression with a closed mouth, and Agyo, which has an open mouthed expression.[10] The two figures were closely evaluated and extensively restored by a team of art conservators between 1988 and 1993. Until then, these sculptures had never before been moved from the niches in which they were originally installed. This complex preservation project, costing $4.7 million, involved a restoration team of 15 experts from the National Treasure Repairing Institute in Kyoto.[11] The temple gives the following dimensions for the statue:[12] Height: 14.98 m (49.1 ft) Face: 5.33 m (17.5 ft) Eyes: 1.02 m (3.3 ft) Nose: 0.5 m (1.6 ft) Ears: 2.54 m (8.3 ft) The statue weighs 500 tonnes (550 short tons).
Information Address/1 Zōshi-chō, Nara-shi, Nara-ken Phone/0742-22-5511 Fee/¥500 Open/08:00-17:00 Closed/-
http://www.todaiji.or.jp/
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Nara Centennial Hall. Nara Centennial Hall is a multi-use complex in Nara, Japan. It opened in 1999 as part of the centennial celebrations of the municipality of Nara. There is a large hall that seats up to 1720, a smaller concert hall with a capacity of 446, and a gallery. Arata Isozaki was the architect, with acoustical design by Nagata Acoustics.[1][2]
58 Arata Isozaki (born 23 July 1931) is a Japanese architect from Ĺ&#x152;ita. He graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1954. Isozaki worked under Kenzo Tange before establishing his own firm in 1963. He was awarded the RIBA Gold Medal in 1986. In 2005, Arata Isozaki founded the Italian branch of his office: Arata Isozaki & Andrea Maffei Associates. Two major projects from this office are currently underway: CityLife office tower, a redevelopment project in the former trade fair area in Milan, and the new Town Library in Maranello, Italy.
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11
Train.
Fish.
Zero.
Juu ichi.
Densha.
Sakana.
電車。
魚。
Subway.
Raw fish.
Chikatetsu.
Sashimi.
地下鉄。
刺身。
1
12
Ichi.
Juu ni.
2
13
Ni.
Juu san. Ship.
Vegetables.
3
14
Fune.
Yasai.
San.
Juu shi, juu yon.
船。
野菜。
4
15
Airplane
Tea.
Shi, yon.
Juu go.
Hikouki.
Otya.
飛行機。
お茶。
5
16
Go.
Juu roku.
Meat.
Alcohol.
Niku.
Sake.
肉。
酒。
6
17
Roku.
Juu shichi, juu nana. Pork.
Water.
7
18
Buta-niku.
Mizu.
Shichi, nana.
Juu hachi.
豚肉。
水。
8
19
Beef.
Chopsticks.
Hachi.
Juu ku, juu kyuu.
Gyu-niku.
Hashi.
牛肉。
箸。
Chicken.
Telephone.
Tori-niku.
Denwa.
鶏肉。
電話。
9
20
Ku, Kyuu.
Nijuu.
10
100
Juu.
Hyaku.
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How much does that cost?
Hello.
Kore ikura desuka.
Konnichiwa. (kon-nee-chee-WAH)
これいくらですか。
こんにちは。
A cup of tea, please.
How are you?
Otya o onegai shimasu..
O-genki desu ka? (oh-GEN-kee dess-KAH?)
お茶をお願いします。
お元気ですか。
The check, please.
Fine, thank you.
Okanjoo o onegai shimasu.
Genki desu. (GEN-kee dess)
お勘定お願いします。
元気です。
Breakfast.
What is your name?
Tyousyoku.
O-namae wa nan desu ka? (oh-NAH-mah-eh wah NAHN dess-KAH?)
朝食。
お名前は何ですか。
Lunch.
My name is __ .
Chuusyoku.
Watashi no namae wa __ desu. (wah-TAH-shee no nah-mah-eh wa __ dess)
昼食。
私の名前は ___ です。
Dinner.
Nice to meet you.
Yuushoku.
Hajimemashite. (hah-jee-meh-MOSH-teh)
夕食。
始めまして。
Cheers!
Please. (request)
Kanpai.
Onegai shimasu. (oh-neh-gigh shee-moss)
乾杯。
お願いします。
Good tasting.
Please. (offer)
Oishii
Dōzo. (DOH-zo)
美味しい。
どうぞ。
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Language Thank you.
Where is the toilet?
Dōmo arigatō. (doh-moh ah-ree-GAH-toh)
Toire wa doko desu ka? (toy-reh wah DOH-koh dess kah?)
どうもありがとう。
トイレはどこですか。
Yes.
Do you speak English?
Hai. (HIGH)
Eigo o hanasemasuka? (AY-goh oh hah-nah-seh-moss-KAH?)
はい。
英語を話せますか。
No.
Help!
Iie. (EE-eh)
Tasukete! (tah-soo-keh-teh!)
いいえ。
たすけて !
You're welcome.
Look out!
Dō itashi mashite. (doh EE-tah-shee mosh-teh)
Abunai! (ah-boo-NIGH!)
どういたしまして。
あぶない !
Excuse me.
Good morning.
Sumimasen. (soo-mee-mah-sen)
Ohayō gozaimasu. (oh-hah-YOH go-zigh-moss)
すみません。
おはようございます。
I'm sorry.
Good evening.
Gomen-nasai. (goh-men-nah-sigh)
Konbanwa. (kohm-bahn-wah)
御免なさい。
こんばんは。
Goodbye. (long-term)
Good night (to sleep)
(sa-YOH-nah-rah)
Oyasuminasai. (oh-yah-soo-mee-nah-sigh)
さようなら。 Sayōnara.
おやすみなさい。
Good morning.
I don't understand.
Ohayō gozaimasu. (oh-hah-YOH go-zigh-moss)
Wakarimasen. (wah-kah-ree-mah-sen)
おはようございます。
わかりません。
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Police: 110
Public phone
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2
Medical: 119 Steps!
Fire: 119
1.push red button. 2.push number. ※ do not try test
Regulations
Walking smoke× stopping smoke is OK.
Drunk driving×
inc: bicycle
※ Three years in prison or fine of not more than 500,000 yen
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Seminar week of spring semester 2012 >> Trip to Japan Organizer: Prof. Ludger Hovestadt Dr. phil. Vera B端hlmann Mario Guala Plan adviser: Michael Hansmeyer Information management: Mario Guala Trip supporter: Hideaki Takenaga Booklet design: Hideaki Takenaga
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