Beautiful Japanese Houses

Beautiful Japanese Houses

At this minka, or farmhouse, in the foothills of Mount Fuji, there’s a traditional bathhouse with a large soaking tub, which is designed for the entire family to bathe together. It’s bordered by a karesansui, or rock garden. To create the grounds, the family enlisted the celebrated Zen priest and landscape designer Shunmyo Masuno.

Architect Tadao Ando created an unusual guesthouse in Tokyo for Takeo Obayashi, a businessman and an art collector. This gallery, one of two in the home, features pieces from Obayashi’s collection, including paintings by (from left) Aya Takano, Naofumi Maruyama, Kyoko Murase, Hidekazu Tanaka, and Torawo Nakagawa. At left is a Honey-Pop chair by Tokujin Yoshioka.

Walls of woven cedar complement a walnut floor in the sparely furnished master bedroom of a home on the coast of Japan. The space, which blends Eastern and Western aesthetics, was designed by Jun Aoki.

An antique vase and scroll are displayed in the tokonoma at the rear of a cedar shrine in this Japanese residence devised by architects Sir Norman Foster and David Nelson. A lantern and mats are on the floor.

The tea ceremony room in this Tokyo home was created by Ko Uehara after Konnichian, a historic tearoom in Kyoto.

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