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design of Kojo-in to fit in the courtyard of MoMA and added a kitchen, bath and tea house to create a functional house. He created neither a replica of Kojo-in, nor an original building but a design that would help the American public understand Japanese traditional architecture. The tea house was modeled after the famous tea house "Masu-doko-no-seki" in Juko-in, subtemple of
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shipped to New York. The reassembly team led by architect Yoshimura arrived at New York in March, 1954 and completed the construction mid-June with help of a cadre of Hawaiian Nisei carpenters. The inaugural ceremony was held on June 17, 1954, and Shofuso was opened to the public on June 19. Japanese prime minister
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visited Shofuso in November 1954, escorted by John D. and Blanchette Rockefeller. The American public was impressed with the beauty of natural wood, simple interior design, and the house's flexible plan. The exhibit was closed on October 16, 1955, after attracting almost a quarter of million visitors
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Pre-assembly of the house began in January 1953 at Ito's workshop in Nagoya, and was completed a year later, using the traditional Japanese method of building, which minimizes the use of structural nails, employing various joineries through the use of hand tools. The house was then disassembled and
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raised ¥55 million ($ 180 thousand at the exchange rate of ¥308/$ ) to fund a complete major restoration of the house and garden in June 1976. In order to continue preservation and maintenance of Shofuso, a non-profit organization, the Friends of the Japanese House & Garden was incorporated in
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in Richmond, Virginia. During the 1957 installation of his new garden designed to accommodate Shofuso after its move from New York, Tansai Sano modified the design by installing a waterfall and adding new planting scheme. In 1976, at the time of major restoration, Ken Nakajima further modified it
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alcove, and (4) chodai-gamae (built-in ornamental doorway). It was built following set of standards that determined the proportions of each element of the building. Following these guidelines, carpenters and builders could achieve an overall architectural harmony. Architect Yoshimura modified the
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MoMA received a number of inquiries on the possibility of permanent exhibition of Shofuso. The final decision was to offer Shofuso as a gift to the Fairmount Park Commission in Philadelphia, a decision likely inspired by the presence of the Japanese garden in the park. In 1958, the carpenter,
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Shofuso was built in 1953 as a gift from Japan to American citizens, to symbolize post-war peace and friendship between the two countries. The building was constructed using traditional Japanese techniques and materials imported from Japan, and was originally exhibited in the courtyard of the
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Shofuso is the first and only place in the United States to house a combination of Japanese contemporary art in the background of traditional Japanese architecture. The City of Philadelphia dedicated Senju's murals on April 27, 2007, and Mayor
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offered to donate twenty murals to Shofuso. Senju's murals depict waterfalls in a custom "Shofuso color" created by blending colors extracted from the elements in the house and garden. The paintings were rendered on
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Okumura, and the gardener, Sano, who had built Shofuso at MoMA, returned from Japan to reconstruct Shofuso on the new site. The present setting of Shofuso was opened to the public on October 19, 1958.
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contacted the Consulate General of Japan in New York to inquire about the possibility restoring Shofuso for the 1976 Bicentennial Celebration. The
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named Shofuso the third-ranked Japanese garden in North America in 2004, 2008, and 2013 out of more than 300 Japanese gardens in North America
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temple for six generations. Eighty main stones were shipped from the old temple, which was located in central Japan. The original garden at
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of 1876. Shofuso is a nonprofit historic site with over 30,000 visitors each year and is open to the public for visitation and group tours.
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in two seasons, approximately three times as many visitors as the two previous MoMA House and Garden exhibits (a 1949 house by architect
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in the Western house and traditional Japanese architecture and proposed to build a Japanese house as the third exhibit of the series.
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house for the exhibit since that style most typically represents Japanese traditional architecture. The Committee unanimously chose
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Charles A. Evers “Nio-mon – The Japanese Temple Gate in Fairmount Park” – Historic Guide to Philadelphia & Japan, pp. 29-32.
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MoMA initiated their series of "House in the Garden" exhibitions in the courtyard of the Museum in 1949. Architectural director
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Fischer, Felice, “Japan and the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition” – Historic Guide to Philadelphia & Japan, p23-25
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was built by Y. Muto for the temple gate in 1909. Muto also built the Water and Hill Garden and Hill-Cloud Garden at
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Over the years, Shofuso fell into disrepair due to lack of maintenance. In 1975, Philadelphia Mayor
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Junzo Yoshimura, “Overseeing Construction of Shofuso”, Japan-America Society Special Bulletin,1954
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Arthur Drexler, Letter to Takashi Komatsu, president of the Japan-America Society, March 20, 1953
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February 1982. The nonprofit administered Shofuso from 1982 to 2016, when it merged with the
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A special Rockefeller Architectural Committee was formed and recommended a 17th-century
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to design the house. Yoshimura had worked for Czech-born American modernist architect,
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McCarty, Yukiko Yanagida, Shoin-zukuri in Philadelphia, The East, Vol 42 No.1 P15-21
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sliding doors of Shofuso at MoMA were decorated with murals painted in black ink by
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Letter from Ambassador Nobuyuki Nakajima to Mayor Frank Rizzo, February 5, 1976
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Shofuso's garden at MoMA was designed by Tansai Sano, a landscape architect in
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created and donated an interior installation of twenty waterfall murals.
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for nine years in Tokyo and spent in 1940 a year in Raymond's office in
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Shofuso was modeled after the guest house of Kojo-in, a sub-temple of
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Arthur Drexler, Memorandum to the Museum of Modern Art, April 9, 1953
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Fujioka Hiroyasu, “Shofuso” Shinkentiku November, 2004, p. 145-151.
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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Philadelphia
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Melissa Ozawa, “Field Trip” House & Garden, October 2007, p119
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Takashi Komatsu, Report of the Special Committee on Shofuso, 1954
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and is administered, maintained, preserved, and operated by the
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whose family had been caretakers of the famous dry garden in
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The Journal of Japanese garden, November/December 2008, p22
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Letter from d’Harnoncourt to David Marder, January 25, 1956
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Shofuso

Shoin-Zukuri
Fairmount Park
Philadelphia
United States
Coordinates
39°58′53″N 75°12′47″W / 39.9814°N 75.213°W / 39.9814; -75.213
Junzo Yoshimura
Japanese
Japanese house
garden
Fairmount Park
Centennial Exposition
Museum of Modern Art
Nihonga
Hiroshi Senju
Philadelphia
Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia
nonprofit
Philip Johnson
Arthur Drexler
modernism
John D. Rockefeller III
Japan Society (New York)
Japan-America Society
shoin-zukuri
Junzo Yoshimura
Antonin Raymond
New Hope, Pennsylvania

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