🌞🌿GREEN REFLECTIONS🪞☺️

[camelliakyoto@mastodon.social]

GREEN REFLECTIONS🪞️

looking into
the newly polished mirror
the servant faints
磨ぎたての鏡びっくり下女気絶
-anon

For a very brief moment each year Kyūtei Omuro (旧邸御室), an old villa close to Ninna-ji, is open to the public.

It is famed for a table!🪞
#Kyoto #京都

[camelliakyoto@mastodon.social]

In the villa's sitting room is a low table made from a single piece of Chinese quince.
The polished surface perfectly captures the reflection of the lush green garden outside, bringing the cool shade of the trees into the room.

#Japan #KyūteiOmuro #旧邸御室 #Kyoto #京都 #仁和寺

[contrasocial@mastodon.social]

@camelliakyoto

The careful curation of the landscaping in the back in just as impressive as the photo, very beautiful. Like a painting come to life.

[felichsdakatze@mastodon.social]

@camelliakyoto
what dates from and to?

[yantar92@fosstodon.org]

@camelliakyoto That reminds of the Garden of harmony

[camelliakyoto@mastodon.social]

drinking tea alone
on the month's first day...
green bamboo blinds

一人呑茶も朔日ぞ青簾

-Kobayashi Issa (小林一茶) 1817.
Trans. David G. Lanoue.

#Kyoto #Japan #京都 #KyūteiOmuro #旧邸御室

[padraigd@norcal.social]

@camelliakyoto Such a beautiful photo. Thank you for sharing.

[camelliakyoto@mastodon.social]

Constructed in 1945, no-one is quite sure who commissioned the Kyūtei Omuro (旧邸御室) or what purpose it served.

The sukiya-style (数寄屋造り) mansion sits in a sprawling 1655m2 parcel of land, and given its proximity to Ninna-ji (仁和寺) many believe there was a connection.

[camelliakyoto@mastodon.social]

A little bit of magic...

#Kyoto #Japan #京都 #KyūteiOmuro #旧邸御室

[shaulaevans@zirk.us]

@camelliakyoto

[elk2go@pixelfed.social]

@camelliakyoto@mastodon.social just phantastic

[pagn@chaos.social]

@camelliakyoto I am a bit jealous, it looks like a Studio Ghibli film.

[gedankentaenze@troet.cafe]

@camelliakyoto Fantastic. I saw a table like that in a Buddhist monastery.

[camelliakyoto@mastodon.social]

In 1969 the residence was owned by Abe Kihee (阿部喜兵衛), the 4th generation director of a saké brewing company.
He sold it to Yamamoto Mitsuo (山本三夫), father of the current owner Murata Akiyo (村田章代). Mitsuo was the founder of Yamasan sawmill (山三製材所).
#Japan #Kyoto