Nihon Minka-en / Japanese Open-Air Folk House Museum

Nihon Minkaen (Japanese Open-Air Folk House Museum)

Exterior: Exterior: Warehouse on stilts (Takakura), late 19th century, Detail
Collection
Japanese Architecture
Media Date
May, 2010

Depicts

exterior
Source
Photography by the Media Center for Art History, Department of Art History & Archaeology, Columbia University, produced with support from Artstor
Photographer
Reynolds, Jonathan
Notes

Originally located on an island in the Amami Archipelago in Kagoshima Prefecture. The high stilts kept grain stored in the attic dry and safe from rats.

Record ID
Farmhouse_Museum_0079