The Yoshijima House - Wms&Co.
The Yoshijima House - Wms&Co.
The Yoshijima House - Wms&Co.
The Yoshijima House - Wms&Co.
The Yoshijima House - Wms&Co.
The Yoshijima House - Wms&Co.
The Yoshijima House - Wms&Co.
The Yoshijima House - Wms&Co.
The Yoshijima House - Wms&Co.
The Yoshijima House - Wms&Co.

The Yoshijima House

$110.00

A rare architectural monograph that reveals Japan's merchant-class masterpiece—a structure where absence speaks more eloquently than adornment. The Yoshijima House, built in 1907, stands as a counterpoint to celebrated monuments, its significance whispered among connoisseurs rather than shouted in textbooks.

Inside, light filters through semi-transparent shoji with mathematical precision, creating a meditation on shadow and illumination. The exposed wooden framework—compared by Yukio Futagawa to the Parthenon's significance—demonstrates that true craftsmanship needs no embellishment.

This volume captures the building's deliberate emptiness, where architectural brilliance is allowed to breathe uninterrupted by distraction.

11 x 14.5"
Hardcover, 268 pages
385 color photographs by Hata Ryoo are here systematically arranged, facilitating a complete room-by-room tour of the house.
Includes 31 architectural plans and 6 gatefolds.⁠

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