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The DOMA House Modernizes a Traditional Japanese Element
KiKi ARCHi and TAKiBI joined forces to design the DOMA House in Kamakura, Japan. The home offers a modern spin on the “doma,” a traditional Japanese architectural design element which refers to the transitional space at the entrance of a Japanese home that joins the outside with the interior on different levels. In contemporary times, the “doma” has evolved to become an entry porch, which the architects expanded upon and extended the idea for the DOMA House. During the pandemic, the homeowner made the choice to leave the city behind and move his family to Kamakura, just an hour outside of Tokyo, to let his kids be kids. The home…
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Health, wellness and the Japanese garden
For a number of many years, nations close to the globe have acknowledged that tension and stress-connected diseases are a world wellness crisis using a huge toll on society. In the early 1980s, the Forest Agency of Japan commenced recommending men and women to get strolls in the woods for superior health and fitness. (Sifferlin, Times, 7/14/2016). This therapeutic exercise is called shinrin-yoku, which translates as “forest bathing,” and is a well known way in Japan to rejuvenate well being. Forest bathing activities involve multi-working day immersion in forests, far more than 60 formal forest remedy trails specified for shinrin-yoku treatment and accredited doctors in forest drugs. The research all-around forest bathing has resulted…
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Where To Find Seattle’s Best Japanese Gardens
In Japan, gardens are way more than just an assortment of flora. They are considered to be an art form. The transition is frequently subtle and distinctive, much like other beautiful Japanese art forms. If tourists are merely speeding through, they could completely miss their splendor. A Japanese garden may have several traits in addition to flowers, trees, and plants, including bridges, fences, gates, lanterns, sculptures, teahouses and other structures, ponds and streams, water basins, and fish. In this marvelous land, each component has a unique and symbolic meaning that reflects the beauty of nature. The bewitching Pacific Northwest has been heavily influenced by Japanese garden design and plant selection,…
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Reworking utopia: Contemporary Japanese garden design
In common with other cultural shifts, Japanese garden design has not been immune to political and social upheaval, nor has it been immune to the opportunities that turmoil provides for change and innovation. As outside pressure mounted on Japan to open up to trade with the West, opposition to the Tokugawa shogunate reached critical mass. With the dissolution of the feudal system and the restoration of the emperor in the new Meiji Era (1868-1912), many gardens in Japan faced near extinction. As interest among the general public in traditional gardens dwindled, the landscape masterpieces of Kyoto were allowed to decay. In some instances, garden elements such as stone lanterns and…
