Former Maeda Family Residence（Wakan） Guest Room (Main Room) and Adjoining Room
| Address | 4-3-55 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo |
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| Store hours | 9 am-4:30pm (Japanese-style building until 4pm) [Closed days / closed days] Every Monday, but if Monday is a holiday, the next day. (Western-style building is closed on Tuesdays) December 29th to January 3rd for the year-end and New Year holidays (December 28th to January 4th for the Japanese-style building) |
Guest room (main room) and Gojinoma
The adjoining rooms contain a combined total of 40 tatami mats. Each room is discreetly separated by transom windows (osa-ranma) and sliding paper doors (fusuma). The guest room, the main room in the back, adopts the so-called Shoin-zukuri design, a traditional style of Japanese residential architecture that features a large alcove (tokonoma), a torii-shaped set of staggered shelves, and a built-in table for reading (tsuke-shoin) with a translucent paper screen used to emit light (akari-shoji). All of these features were designed to demonstrate to the viewer the majesty of the Maeda, a powerful daimyo family of the Edo period.
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