A long meeting at the Huntington today left me, happily, with enough time to walk (on a glorious spring day) through the very pruned Rose Garden to the 320 year old Shōya house - built in Marugame, Japan (close to Takamatsu, and I think I must have gone past in on a train) in 1700, where it was the center of village life. It was painstakingly brought over here and reconstructed, over 7 years; it opened last year, and the Huntington - rightly - are taking much pride not just in its beauty, but in the example that it affords of a house designed, in its little compound, for sustainable living. It feels ... very very Japanese, and is extremely beautiful.
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