Limitations of the site and problems attendant on making

the house accessible to the public imposed the following

adjustments
1.

Orientation.

The main rooms of the house would

ordi-

narily have faced southeast. Adjoining buildings predeter-

mined an orientation

to the west, overlooking the

Museum's

sculpture garden.
2.

Number and size of rooms. Houses of this

design consisted

of one, two, or three units, essentially similar and arranged

asymmetrically. Rooms did not differ greatly and were interchangeable. The Exhibition House presents one basic unit.
The ken module used throughout the main building is approximately 6 2 feet, measured from the center of one column
to the center of the next. Storage rooms (number 13 on the
plan) v/ere reduced in size. The veranda north of the shout
room (number 8 on the plan) was made somewhat larger than
usual to facilitate the movement of large crowds. A complete
tea house, a kitchen, and a bathroom appropriate to the period
were included, but servants' quarters were omitted. No
attempt was made to artificially age the wood by darkening
it. The house presents intact a phase of Japanese architecture
as it originally appeared.
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Kitchen. The oven, at ground level, is made of earth

and waxed plaster. A charcoal fire is kept in the sandbox (foreground). Drainboard and sink are at the
rear.

Kitchen work space adjoins a pantry, where portable

tables are stored in cabinets and food is prepared for
serving on shelf just above floor level.

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Bathroom. Sunken wood tub adjoins sliding

is of hinoki bark shingles.

lattice screen

and waxed

shoji.

The roof

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Museum of Modern Art.

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of hinoki bark shingles.

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