Hida Takayama

The eleven floats stand out clearly in the well-preserved old streets of Hida-Takayama that once prospered as a city under direct control of the Edo shogunate.

Hida Takayama   Near a top Kamisannno town is one corner of a once castle town. 

Two boiled-fish-paste-like arches applied blue look beautiful in the green of a mountain on the bridge concerning the Hida river which flows through the inside of Gero. 

On the history inheritance which symbolizes modernization of the town in Gero of prewar days with Yunoshimakan, there is 銘 in "Osaka Iron manufacture   Showa 6" in the iron material of an arch part. 

The Showa 6 completion and the minced newel post of the session style are also living. 

Historic Villages in Shirakawa-go and Gokayama

Historic Villages in Shirakawa-go and Gokayama In Shirakawa-go, there remain 114 thatched houses with steep raftered roofs which look like a pair of hands held together in prayer. The steep roofs, inclined at 60 degrees from the horizontal, are constructed of timber bound with neso, a kind of rope made from hammered saplings of young mansaku trees. The wide attics have two levels and were used to rear silk worms to make silk, which was the main income source of this region. It was the smoke which came out from the fireplace on the first floor and was absorbed by the pillars and beams that protected the building from humidity and insect damage.

Hyougo no tu

Hyougo no tu is built by Taira no Kiyomori. It is the biggest port in the country in Kamakura Period. It drew on the post station. And it is developed city of Kobe. It is port of Kobe now.

Old port of Kobe

Now port of Kobe

Tower

Tsutenkaku is famous landmark of Osaka. It is located in the Shinsekai district of Naniwa. The total height is 103m. This built steel construction.

Tokyo Tower was completed in the year 1958 as a symbol for Japan's rebirth as a major economic power and serves as a television and radio broadcast antenna and tourist attraction.

Architecture of Jomon period

.pit-house, earth lodge is a shelter for humans or domesticated animals and livestock based on a hole or depression dug into the ground. These structures are one of the most ancient types of human housing known to archeologists. They can also be semi-recessed with a constructed wood or sod roof standing out. The same methods have evolved into modern earth shelter technology.

This is ruin of pit-house.

Earthquake

In 1995 there happened a great earthquake in Kobe. Approximately 6,434 people lost their lives about 4,600 of them were from Kobe. Among major cities, Kobe, with its population of 1.5 million, was the closest to the epicenter and hit by the strongest tremors. This was Japan's worst earthquake in the 20th century after the Great Kantō earthquake in 1923, which claimed 140,000 lives. It caused approximately ten trillion yenin damage, 2.5% of Japan's GDP at the time.

Quake damage

 Also there happened East Japan Earthquake this year. The city destroyed by tsunami waves, and many people died from tsunami damage. So I am meant to anticipation of flooding from tsunami. Also I want to provision of tsunami.

Quake damage

City of Kobe

There are western architecture in city of Kobe. This name is Izinkan. It is that Westerner lived there at one time. It is very beautiful and fashionable. For example ,

This is Kazamidorinoyakata. It is very famous.

Next is Urokonoyakata.

You can see scenic Port of Kobe there.

Another is Hassam House.

This is built by Alexander N. Hansell. This is very fashionable.

Other



J.architect

Ando Tadao born September 13,1941, in Osaka. He is Japanese architecture. He makes with unique and interesting building. For instance …

←This is Hyougokenritubizyutukan.

This building has achieved a variety of complex spatial experience in configuration straightforward.
Increased sensitivity, entrance hall and a relaxed atmosphere invites to meditation, and it is such a glass corridor that surrounds the room plenty of natural light pours in contrast, has seen the rich look of the interior shading throughout each building. To produce a variety of light will change together in this huge maze of buildings and even the sea front. Museum of the seasons changing and many times you visit, we also changed the inconvenience of the way.

Another …

　This is Ueno library.

This is made to saving and regenerating plan the old Imperial Library Plan.

The part which was an outer wall is reborn as the internal space originally by a glass block.

There are many works of Ando Tadao.

 ←This is in Kobe.

←This is very interesting work.