is an open-air architectural park in
Takamatsu,
Kagawa Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Shikoku. Kagawa Prefecture has a population of 949,358 (as of 2020) and is the smallest prefecture by geographic area at . Kagawa Prefecture borders Ehime Prefecture to the southwest and Tok ...
,
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
. It houses over twenty buildings from around
Shikoku dating from the
Edo period through to the
Taishō period, four of which have been designated
Important Cultural Properties. The park opened in 1976 and covers an area of approximately fifty thousand square metres.
Important Cultural Properties
* (18th Century)
* (1781)
* (1909)
* (
Meiji period)
Gallery
An exhibition space designed by
Tadao Ando
is a Japanese autodidact architect whose approach to architecture and landscape was categorized by architectural historian Francesco Dal Co as "critical regionalism". He is the winner of the 1995 Pritzker Prize.
Early life
Ando was born a few m ...
opened in 2002.
See also
*
Meiji Mura
*
Minka
*
Japanese architecture
has been typified by wooden structures, elevated slightly off the ground, with tiled or thatched roofs. Sliding doors (''fusuma'') and other traditional partitions were used in place of walls, allowing the internal configuration of a space to ...
References
External links
Shikoku Mura homepage
Open-air museums in Japan
Museums in Kagawa Prefecture
Shikoku region
Tadao Ando buildings
Parks and gardens in Kagawa Prefecture
Important Cultural Properties of Japan
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