旧永山武四郎邸 / 旧三菱鉱業寮
Meiji-era pioneer's home blending a Japanese study with a Western parlor, later a mining company's private lodge.
This guide to the former Nagayama Takeshiro residence in Sapporo centers on the army captain who arrived from Kagoshima in 1872 to settle Japan's northern frontier, and the tondenhei system of farmer-soldiers he built to guard it against a feared Russian invasion. You'll hear how a man who eventually commanded tens of thousands of settlers came home each night to this quietly elegant house, where a Japanese study opens directly onto a Western drawing room, and about the unusual request he made for his own burial. Worth pausing at the seam where the two rooms meet, where two very different ideas of home were made to cohabit.
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