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Hotel Kitcho

Greetings from Hotel Kitcho “吉晁”, Tokyo. We are staying here for one night, before leaving for Kyoto tomorrow morning. But we wish we could stay here longer -- just look at the beautiful and spacious Japanese-style room

Traditional Japanese architecture, "Sukiyazukuri," is rapidly becoming obsolete. Few carpenters nowadays have been trained in this special craft, and a "Sukiyazukuri" Japanese room in a hotel is far more expensive to maintain than a Western room. The Hotel Kitcho has reproduced a traditional Sukiyazukuri" room using the original construction methods. One feature of this architecture is unsymmetrical beauty: "Sukiya" means both "pleasure" and "odd number (odd things are sometimes fun)," a sense of Japanese aesthetic beauty predating modernization.

posted by Gary Feng @ 8:11 AM