TommyT Report This Comment
Date: January 23, 2006 03:16AM

(2pics are not my origin)

In the begining of =Showa= period (1930s), There was become popular.
That called =Bunka Jutaku= (Cultual houses), Japanese style parts with European style drawing room.
There are some houses in Niigata city (my hometown). But the authorities (Niigata city office) has no considers for preserve old houses like this as =Bunka Isan= (Cultual heritages).

=Mottainai= ...

TommyT Report This Comment
Date: January 23, 2006 03:30AM

Nagaoka?
I think may be there was some houses like that.
But Nagaoka was all burn down by great air rade in Aug. 1, 1945's late at night.
I saw houses like that Niigata city and Kashiwazaki city(Niigata pref.), Kumagaya city(Saitama pref.), Utsunomiya city(Tochigi pref.) and Mito city(Ibaraki pref.).

shaDEz Report This Comment
Date: January 23, 2006 04:44AM

sounds like a nice crib