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Works in Japanese Architecture

Tea houses, residences and places of work — authentic Japanese spaces, curated by wanova.

Granite path through a hedge gate and beside an aged tree, leading to the old house

Japanese culture is never the work of a single hand.

It rises only when many crafts meet — ceramics, joinery, earthen walls, calligraphy, gardens.

WANOVA assigns the finest maker to each of these, one by one, and composes a Japanese space that exists nowhere else.

In the Home

A measure of Japanese time, woven into daily life.

Entrance of a wooden tea house with a hanging wooden name plaque, viewed through bright green Japanese maple leaves in the foreground.

CHASHITSU in Roppongi, Tokyo

A freestanding tea house in a private garden, where old stones, moss and an aged plum live on in new handwork.

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Daytime salon counter looking onto a rooftop garden, with a black-topped hearth and an iron kettle beside floor-to-ceiling windows.

Penthouse Japanese Tatami Room in Tokyo

A penthouse hideaway built around an eight-mat tatami room, with a rooftop tea garden and a live-edge counter.

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View from the chashitsu deck across the garden toward a distant earthen storehouse

Japanese Traditional House in Chiba

A forty-year-old house reborn as a place to stay, with hand-carved roofs and a tea room facing a dry garden.



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Places of Hospitality

Stillness for the places where guests are received.

Tea room with shoji partly open beside a gallery wall holding a bamboo crescent sculpture.

CHASHITSU in Gallery, Ippodo Gallery Ginza

A tea room beneath Ippodo Gallery Ginza; slide its fittings and the chashitsu becomes a gallery, or a stage.

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Symmetrical private room with red floor cushions and an arched niche, an intimate izakaya space in Tokyo.

Japanese-style Izakaya in Tokyo

Solid timber, earthen walls and a fan-shaped slatted ceiling bring a tea house calm to a Tokyo izakaya.

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Brick-fronted shop with a slatted timber sign board and a white crested noren

Kimono Salon in Tokyo

A kimono showroom with a full tea room built in — a tatami stage, with a solid-wood counter, for lessons and events.

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A juniper bonsai is spotlit on a round antique table, the tea counter glowing beyond reed blinds in the japanese cafe.

Bonsai Cafe and Tea Room in Aoyama, Tokyo

A bowl of matcha among bonsai, with a soundproofed one-mat tea room hidden behind.

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In the Workplace

A pause set into the middle of the working day.

CHASHITSU in an Office, Tokyo

A tea room and roji set into a high-rise office floor, where the calm of tea runs alongside the workday.

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