Japanese Minimalist Houses: Top Photos

Silence, wood, and light in the tradition that taught the world what emptiness can do

photographs taken during our trip, April 1985, by Trans-Siberia Express from Hoek van Holland with a stopover in Moskou, to Nachodka at the easternmost border of the then USSR. By ship to Japan, by un
A traditional Japanese interior photographed in 1985 — the spare room arrangement unchanged across generations. © Marie-Sophie Mejan, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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