Japanese-style House in Sujeong-dong, Busan

Built in 1943, this Japanese-style building stands on a large plot and consists of two structures: a three-bay gate with a gabled roof, and a south-facing main house. The right side of the main house's entrance is finished in masonry, while the rest of the building is Japanese-style timber construction. Today the ground floor has been partly converted into ondol (underfloor-heated) rooms, but the upper floor retains its original form, including an engawa (a narrow veranda-corridor typical of Japanese houses), a corridor laid with long wooden floorboards, and tatami-matted rooms. In the tatami-floored interior, fine details are preserved exactly as built, including a tokonoma (a decorative alcove for art or flowers), a tsukeshoin (a built-in alcove writing desk), sliding paper doors known as myeongjangji, tatami mats, and Japanese-style window-lattice patterns. The design elements of this high-quality Japanese-style building, its varied interior layout, and in particular the upper floor's interior composition and decoration, which closely and thoroughly follow traditional Japanese residential form, are highly distinctive.

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Where it is

Region

Dong-gu, Busan

Designation

Registered Cultural Heritage · 국가등록문화유산