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[5] [6] In 1970, Matsumoto played the prominent part of Kyoko, the Japanese lover, in French director François Truffaut's movie Bed and Board. Many of the dresses worn in the movie were designed by the Hanae Mori fashion company. [7] A few years later, Hiroko Matsumoto married Jean-Claude Cathalan, who, at the time, was a manager at Roussel Uclaf.
Since the shinden-zukuri-style house flourished during the Heian period, houses tended to be furnished and adorned with characteristic art of the era. In front of the moya across the courtyard is a garden with a pond. Water runs from a stream (yarimizu 遣水) into a large pond to the south of the courtyard.
Yoko Sugimura (Japanese: 杉村 陽子 Sugimura Yoko, born November 1, 1974, in Nagano, Japan) is a former Japanese gravure idol and race queen. Yoko Sugimura began her modeling career as a race queen for Kure in 1997, where she teamed up with Fumika Suzuki. As with Fumika Suzuki, the race queen modeling gave her career a good start.
In the Azuchi-Momoyama period not only sukiya style but the contrasting shoin-zukuri (書院造) of residences of the warrior class developed. While sukiya was a small space, simple and austere, shoin-zukuri style was that of large, magnificent reception areas, the setting for the pomp and ceremony of the feudal lords.
Yuki Kimura (木村 有希, Kimura Yuki, born October 23, 1996 [3] in Kanagawa Prefecture), [4] is a Japanese fashion model and tarento. [5] She is better known by her stage name Yukipoyo (ゆきぽよ). [6] She is represented by her agency VIP Models Agency. [1] Kimura's father is Japanese, while her mother is a Filipino with some Spanish ...
Minka (Japanese: 民家, lit. "folk houses") are vernacular houses constructed in any one of several traditional Japanese building styles. In the context of the four divisions of society, Minka were the dwellings of farmers, artisans, and merchants (i.e., the three non-samurai castes). [1]
Jutaku houses and buildings often feature contorted geometries and daring structural engineering, or awkward site configurations. [5] [4] According to the Japanese architect Yasuhiro Yamashita, a Jutaku house is awkward, built towards the sky, nature-sensitive, personalized, monochrome, built with reflective materials and hidden storage areas. [6]
Shoin-zukuri (Japanese: 書院造, 'study room architecture') is a style of Japanese architecture developed in the Muromachi, Azuchi–Momoyama and Edo periods that forms the basis of today's traditional-style Japanese houses.