ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html lang="zh-CN"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <title>Northern Culture Museum's Web Site, The sub-drawing room,The kitchen and hearth</title> <link href="design/base.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> </head> <body> <div class="title"> <img src="../imgpic2/ncmbanner1.jpg" border="0" align="right" alt=""> <img src="../imgpic1/hyoudai2.gif" border="0" align="center" alt=""> </div> <div class="contents"> <div class="side"> <h4 lang="en"><div><a href="outline.html">Outline</a></div></h4> <h4 lang="en"><div><a href="history.html">History</a></div></h4> <h4 lang="en"><div><a href="garden.html">The Garden</a></div></h4> <h4 lang="en" style="background-color:#AAEECC"><div>The sub-drawing room,The kitchen and hearth</div></h4> <h4 lang="en"><div><a href="sanrakutei.html">Tea Houses<br>Sanraku-tei House</a></div></h4> <h4 lang="en"><div><a href="shukokan.html">Shukokan and haiku poem</a></div></h4> <h4 lang="en"><div><a href="hours.html">Visiting hours and Museum Map</a></div></h4> <div class="hrbottom"><hr></div> <h4 lang="en"><div><a href="../top.html">Japanese Page</a></div></h4> <h4 lang="en"><div><a href="../russian/index.html">Russian Page</a></div></h4> <h4 lang="en"><div><a href="../chinese/index.html">Chinese Page</a></div></h4> <h4 lang="en"><div><a href="../korean/index.html">Korean Page</a></div></h4> <h4 lang="en"><div><a href="index.html">Back to English page</a></div></h4> <div class="hrbottom"><hr></div> <p lang="en"> Northern Culture Museum<br> <br> post nunmber 950-0205<BR> 2-15-25 Somi<br> Konan-ward Niigata City<br> Niigata Pref.<br> Tel 025-385-2001<br> Fax 025-385-3929<br> <a href="mailto: ncm2006@vanilla.ocn.ne.jp"><img src="../imgpic2/xin.gif" border="0" alt="E-mail" valign="bottom">Email:<br> ncm2006@vanilla.ocn.ne.jp</a> </p> <center> <img src="../imgpic1/ezara.jpg" border="0" alt=""> </center> <div class="hrbottom2"><hr></div> </div> <div class="main"> <h2 lang="en">The sub-drawing room,<br> The kitchen and hearth</h2> <br> <h3 lang="en">The sub-drawing room</h3> <table border="0"> <tr> <td><p lang="en" style="text-indent:1em"> One of the impressive features here is a rare log of Japanese ceder used as a beam beneath the roof of the veranda. </p> <p lang="en" style="text-indent:1em"> This 30-meter-long log and those used as beams in other parts of the building are said to have been cut down in a deep forest in the Aizu district of the neighboring prefecture and floated down the Agano River to this village. </p></td> <td valign="top" align="center"><img src="../imgpic1/chanoma1.jpg" border="0" alt="The sub-drawing room"><br> <br> <img src="../imgpic1/imatenji.jpg" border="0" alt=""></td> </tr> </table> <br> <h3 lang="en">The kitchen and hearth</h3> <p lang="en" style="text-indent:1em"> At the peak of the Ito family's wealth, about 60 kilos of rice was presumably cooked here daily for the 12-13 family menbers and 50 or more employees and servants (about 30 of whom lived in.) </p> <table border="0"> <tr> <td valign="top">(measuring over 200m<sup>2</sup>)<br> <img src="../imgpic1/daidokoro1.jpg" border="0" alt="The kitchen"></td> <td valign="top"> <img src="../imgpic1/irori1.jpg" border="0" alt="The hearth"></td> </tr> </table> <table border="0" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5" align="center"> <tbody> <tr> <td><a href="garden.html"><img src="../imgpic2/back.gif" border="0" alt="Back,The Garden"></a></td> <td><a href="sanrakutei.html"><img src="../imgpic2/next.gif" border="0" alt="Next,Tea Houses Sanraku-tei House"></a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <hr> <address lang="en">Copy Right Northern Culture Museum. All Rights Reserved.</address> </div> </div> </body> </html>