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, Shukokan and haiku poem</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"><div><a href="sanrakutei.html">Tea Houses<br>Sanraku-tei House</a></div></h4> <h4 lang="en" style="background-color:#AAEECC"><div>Shukokan and haiku poem</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/sharin.jpg" border="0" alt=""> </center> <div class="hrbottom2"><hr></div> </div> <div class="main"> <h2 lang="en">Shukokan and haiku poem</h2> <br> <h3 lang="en">Shukokan</h3> <p lang="en" style="text-indent:1em"> <img src="../imgpic1/shuukokan.jpg" border="0" alt=""> The two-story earthen warehouse called Shukokan used to be a rice warehouse. The space behind the left door was for rice, and that behind the right door for soy beans. This is one of two remaining warehouses; the other is exhibition in Shimizuen, Shibata City. </p> <p lang="en" style="text-indent:1em"> <img src="../imgpic1/shuukokan2.jpg" border="0" alt=""> The impressive design of its white and dark grey wall, harmonizing well with the surroundind tranquility, attracted the famous haiku poetess Teijo Nakamura, who has left the inscription of a haiku poem : "Kado dozo wa, imamo mashironi, awo arashi". It may be interpreted : "What pure whiteness the old warehouse still keeps! Standing at the corner of the garden, the green leaves turning over in the wind!" </p> <br> <h3 lang="en">Three farm-houses</h3> <p lang="en" style="text-indent:1em"> <img src="../imgpic1/minka.jpg" border="0" align="left" alt="The farm-house"> To the east of the main building are a paddy field and three farm-houses, which were moved from their original villages and rebuilt here, called Kariwa house, Tokiwa-sou, and Yoshigahira house respectively. The blossoms of camellia and iris by the lane seem fitting ornaments for this rural scene. </p> <table border="0" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5" align="center"> <tbody> <tr> <td><a href="sanrakutei.html"><img src="../imgpic2/back.gif" border="0" alt="Back,Tea Houses Sanraku-tei House"></a></td> <td><a href="hours.html"><img src="../imgpic2/next.gif" border="0" alt="Next,Visiting hours and Museum Map"></a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <hr> <address lang="en">Copy Right Northern Culture Museum. All Rights Reserved.</address> </div> </div> </body> </html>