Former Maeda Family Residence（Wakan） Yokan Corridor and Wakan Corridor
| 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) |
Yokan Corridor and Wakan Corridor
Important Cultural Property (Structure) Date of designation: August 7, 2013
An open corridor roughly 30m long connects the Yokan with the Wakan. The Wakan section of the corridor, designed by Sasaki Iwajiro, features a wooden Japanese-style design, while the Yokan side, designed by Takahashi Teitaro, employs a Western-style design that makes use of scratch tiles and Taikaseki tuff stones. The Japanese and Western designs meet and switch at the pavilion at the center of the corridor. The pavilion used to house the Usagi-mon, or Rabbit’s Gate, which served to ward off evil from the northeast at Komatsu Castle (the northeast is regarded as an unlucky direction and is actually called the devil’s gate, or kimon in Japanese). The Rabbit’s Gate is currently in storage in the Komatsu City Museum collection.
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Former Marquis Maeda Main Residence (Komaba Park) Audio Guide
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