#paper door

[vintagehomecollection]

Traditionally, large sliding paper doors carried a painting or design. As classical rooms became more Western, sliding doors were replaced by hinged doors, sometimes decorated.

At Home With Japanese Design: Accents, Structure and Spirit, 1990

[cinno]

you can’t come in

[slowstrollthroughjapan]

Here are our futons for the night. The hotel staff made them and put them out while we were away at Inari and Gion. I wonder if they anticipate you leaving in the middle of the day for them to set them up?

[various-cartoon-awesomeness]

[lifeinkyoto]

Dejima

This is from a visit to Dejima, the Dutch settlement and trading outpost in Nagasaki. It is now being reconstructed to accurately represent the time when Dejima was one of the few places in Japan that were open to the world. Here it was pointed out to me by a high school girl that I am, in fact, tall. I would give so much to live in a place like this.

[slowstrollthroughjapan]

They pushed the really nice table and chairs off to the side.

[lifeinkyoto]

Machiya — interiors of Kyoto townhouses.

[forgottenantiquities]

Mid-sized zen freestanding desk with a brown floor and a vinyl floor in the home office library, which has green walls but no fireplace.

Mt Adnah Cemetery