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A House Is Not Your Home

Saturday, August 18, 2018 23:18

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By Alma Reyes*

The flow of the river is ceaseless and its water is never the same. The bubbles that float in the pools, now vanishing, now forming, are not of long duration. So in the world are man and his dwellings. — (Kamo no Chomei, Japanese poet and monk).

Kigumi Infinity by Atsushi Kitagawara, Japan Pavilion, Expo Milano 2015 © Shigeru Ohno | Photo from Wall Street International.

16 August 2018 (Wall Street International)* – “Why are Japanese homes so small?” and ”Why are buildings in Japan demolished after 30-35 years?” — are often the perplexing questions that come to mind after acquiring an adequate taste of Japanese urban life.

While the general theory points to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) that proclaimed the average lifespan of a wooden house to 27~30 years, and reinforced-concrete apartment buildings to about 37 years based on reasons of alleviating pitfall construction risks, such as unprotected earthquake-proofing, roof and water leaks, and poor window caulking; profiting from better bank loans for newer homes; avoiding land depreciation value over a period of time; escaping the heavy inheritance tax; and anxiously updating to new technology, the underlying shadow beneath the “scrap-and-build” mentality may lurk from something else, something less metropolitan, such as tradition.

World-renowned architect Kengo Kuma has once lectured about the backbone of kyosho jutaku(micro home living), the prevalent Japanese standard for city residential building.

He claimed that this conventional concept of compact dwelling could be traced back to the early thirteenth century, when the renowned Japanese poet Kamo no Chomei wrote about embracing the merits of simple living, and the natural flow of life changes and state of impermanence in his essay, “An Account of My Hut” (Hojiki).

*Alma Reyes

Editor and writer based in Tokyo with Master’s degree in Design and years of publishing experience.

Spends time between writing, reading, traveling, yoga, Japanese calligraphy, photography, museums, piano, concerts – sharing the richness of life with special souls of inspiration.

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*Alma Reyes‘s article was published in Wall Street International. Go to ORIGINAL.

2018 Human Wrongs Watch

Source: https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2018/08/19/a-house-is-not-your-home/

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