Kyu-Iwasaki-tei Garden(旧岩崎邸庭園) Kyu-Iwasaki-tei Garden, known as a garden where the winds of time blow, was built in 1896 as the main residence of Hisaya Iwasaki, the eldest son of Yataro Iwasaki and the third president of Mitsubishi. In its heyday, 20 buildings stood on approximately 15,000 tsubo (about 12 acres), but now only three buildings remain: the Western-style house, the billiard room, and the main hall of the Japanese-style house. The two-story wooden Western-style house with a basement was designed by Josiah Conder, a British architect famous for designing the Rokumeikan, and is a Western-style wooden building representative of modern Japanese housing. The interior is decorated with magnificent Jacobean-style decorations throughout, and the delicate design, unlike many Western-style buildings built during the same period, retains the atmosphere of the past. The Conder-designed billiard room (billiard hall), built as a separate building, is a Swiss chalet-style wooden bu...
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