Showing posts with label dazaifu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dazaifu. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Getting to the Kyushu National Museum


The Kyushu National Museum is located in the ancient western capital of Dazaifu in Fukuoka.


It's built on a hill overlooking Dazaifi Tenmangu, the temple built around the last resting place of Sugawara Michizane that became a shrine in the Meiji Period, and probably the most major tourist spot in Dazaifu.


To get between the two there is a series of escalators and moving walkways. The museum was designed by the famous Metabolist architect  Kiyonori Kikutake, and I suspect the escalator and walkway too.


What makes it worthy of note and inclusion in my occasional architecture postings is the light show. A sequence of different colors shoot down the tunnel as you travel along, as well different colored lighting along the wall.


Friday, December 18, 2009

Round Windows: looking in (traditional)

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Not much I can add to the title, except to give locations. This first one is from a farmhouse in the village of Yairoishi, up in the mountains of Iwami.

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This is of the Tea Room at Kennin-Ji, the oldest Zen temple in Kyoto.

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This is at Komyozen-Ji, a delightful small temple in Dazaifu, Fukuoka. It has my favorite temple garden.

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Just a house in Tsuwano.