Main entry:

Ishimoto, Tatsuo.

Title & Author:

The Japanese house, its interior and exterior, by Tatsuo and Kiyoko Ishimoto.

Publication:

New York, Crown [1963]

Description:

128 pages illustrations 29 cm

Notes:
Introduction -- A look at Japanese houses -- In today's Japan -- Now let's visit some Japanese houses -- The entry gate first leads to a garden, then to the house -- At the genkan (entry vestibule) you take off your shoes -- The floor is resilient tatami mat -- The interior walls are sliding panels (fusuma) -- In the zashiki (principal room) the focus is the tokonoma -- Exterior wall panels (shoji) slide away to reveal the garden -- The engawa invites you into the garden -- From the front gate to the front door -- Where to leave your shoes -- The floor plan is flexible -- The Japanese room has many functions -- This modern house simplifies traditional ideas -- Modern house: The parlor and the family room -
The Japanese inn: Houses in miniature -- The Japanese inn: Magic with sliding panels -- You can open the wall in different ways -- In the center of the room, a table over a floor recess -- A walk through a Japanese house -- Through a Japanese house: Past an interior garden -- Through a Japanese house: Achieving airy space -- Here is a modern Japanese house -- Japanese and Western ideas come together in a single room -- In a Japanese room you can select your garden view -- How the fusuma partitions work in a bedroom-dressing room -- Just three rooms, but what a variety of space -- Three rooms: Variety out of simplicity -- This modern house has Western-style rooms downstairs, Japanese-style rooms upstairs -
Japanese rooms upstairs -- The Japanese house in transition -- Japanese and Western, side by side -- Innovations: Kitchen, bath, laundry -- The garden has varied aspects -- Japanese-style garden, and a tea room -- The Japanese screen has many uses -- An island garden screens this entry -- Isecho: The gate and the entry -- Tsuitate: The single-panel screen -- The Tokonomo is sized to the room -- Nine-mat room with a low folding screen -- A special house for the tea ceremony -- The traditional tea-house entry -- A place for brewing tea -- A touch of old Japan -- A room for the tea ceremony, modern and simple -
American adaptations: Shoji as room dividers -- Just a few Japanese touches indoors, and a garden outdoors -- The garden creates the view from indoors -- Adaptations inside the house -- Adaptations in the garden and on the street -- Decorating with screen, scroll, tansu, and bonsai -- More ways Americans use the tansu -- In America, the fun of a Japanese room -- Japanese rooms in America -- Glossary.

Summary:

The simplicity and grace of the Japanese tradition in design has created much excitement in architectural circles in recent years...Presented in this volume are over 200 photographs of the Japanese house with both interior and exterior views, showing in detail the use of shoji screens, fusuma partitions, tatami mats, and other unique elements; a complete discussion of materials and arrangements; and numerous suggestions for adapting Japanese ideas to American needs.

Subject:

Architecture, Domestic Japan.
Interior decoration Japan.
Architecture, Domestic.
Interior decoration.
Japan.

Added entries:

Ishimoto, Kiyoko, author.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 19062
Call No.: W9797; ID:87-B6308
Status: Available