Edo Period (1603-1868) Ageya
Geisha houses are called Okiya. An Ageya is a larger facility made to be a house of entertainment (performance), restaurant and salon. The Geishas would be summoned from thier respective okiyas to Sumiya to perform and otherwise serve, entertain and occompany the respected guests. This type of architecture is indicative of the rising merchant class in Japan at this time. Sumiya is the regarded as the finest example of Ageya architecture surviving today and once housed meetings of Kyoto's top artists and intelectuals.
(unfortunately no pictures were allowed upstairs) .jpg)
bamboo bench at garden entry
fold down waiting bench
The Takenaka Internship is granted yearly to one student each from the architecture schools of Yale, M.I.T. and the University of Pennsylvania. The Takenaka Corporation traces its history back more than four hundred years and this internship provides American students of architecture with a summer of valuable training at Japan's oldest architecture, engineering and construction firm. Based out of the Osaka design office, interns participate in various aspects of design and also accompany archite
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