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, Tea Houses and Sanraku-tei House</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"><div><a href="room.html">The sub-drawing room,The kitchen and hearth</a></div></h4> <h4 lang="en" style="background-color:#AAEECC"><div>Tea Houses<br>Sanraku-tei House</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/ichirinbana.jpg" border="0" alt=""> </center> <div class="hrbottom2"><hr></div> </div> <div class="main"> <h2 lang="en">Sanraku-tei House and Tea Houses</h2> <br> <h3 lang="en">Sanraku-tei House, Tea Houses</h3> <p lang="en" style="text-indent:1em"> <img src="../imgpic1/sanrakutei1.jpg" border="0" alt="Sanraku-tei House"> The small house, used as a study and tea room, is noted for its unusual shape : a triangle! It contains one diamond-shaped 10-mat room and two triangular rooms. Even more eccentric is the fact that all parts of the building include the tatami-mats and chests of drawers are diamond-shaped or triangular. This approximately 40m<sup>2</sup> triangular house was built in 1890. <img src="../imgpic1/madori.jpg" border="0" alt="Sanraku-tei geography"> </p> <br><br> <p lang="en" style="text-indent:1em"> Sekisui-an and Zeku-ken: Both were designed by Souetsu Matsumura, a tea ceremony master, after a famous tea house "Fushin-an" in Kyoto. Originally built in Kashiwazaki in the beginning of the 19th century, they were moved to this museum in 1956. </p> <br> <p lang="en" style="text-indent:1em"> <img src="../imgpic1/kouyou1.jpg" border="0" align="left"> Ji-an: Containing a 4-mat special tea room, it is connected to the main building by a small detached bridge. </p> <br> <p lang="en" style="text-indent:1em"> Iwano-ya: An arbor for a special style of tea ceremony, situated at the foot of the artificial hill (tsukiyama).<img src="../imgpic1/sadoin.jpg" border="0" alt="Sadomi-tei House"> </p> <br> <p lang="en" style="text-indent:1em"> Sadomi-tei: Consisting of three rooms, it is located on the top of the hill. </p> <br><br> <table border="0" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5" align="center"> <tbody> <tr> <td><a href="room.html"><img src="../imgpic2/back.gif" border="0" alt="Back,The sub-drawing room,The kitchen and hearth"></a></td> <td><a href="shukokan.html"><img src="../imgpic2/next.gif" border="0" alt="Next,Shukokan and haiku poem"></a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <hr> <address lang="en">Copy Right Northern Culture Museum. All Rights Reserved.</address> </div> </div> </body> </html>