Japanese Folk Houses and Sukiya

A selection of books on the folk houses of Japan and on sukiya architecture and the tea room, the spaces of the tea ceremony. It brings together Yukio Futagawa’s folk-house photography, recorded since the 1950s, Teiji Ito’s sukiya research, and Taisho-era photograph collections of tea rooms — tracing the traditional Japanese dwelling through both architectural photography and architectural history.

Books on Japanese Folk Houses and Sukiya — by theme, in chronological order

Japanese Folk Houses

1971京の町家 ― Shinshindo · 362 pp. · Photographs by Shihachi Fujimoto, text by Masao Nakamura
1974郷土の民家 ― Ie no Hikari Kyokai · 130 pp. · Supervised by Teiji Ito
1980日本の民家 二川幸夫 ― A.D.A. Edita Tokyo · 361 pp. · Text by Teiji Ito
1981日本の民家 全8巻揃 ― Gakushu Kenkyusha · Photographs by Shigeo Okamoto
2006京都町家の坪庭 ― Komura Suiko Shoin · 146 pp. · Photographs by Katsuhiko Mizuno
2012日本の民家一九五五年「普及版」 ― ADA Edita Tokyo · 144 pp. · A re-edit of “Nihon no Minka” (Bijutsu Shuppansha, 1957–59)

Sukiya and the Tea Room

Taisho era建築写真類聚 茶室 卷一・卷二 2冊 ― Koyosha · 50 plates per volume
1920建築写真類集 茶室 卷2 ― Koyosha
1933建築写真類聚 茶室 卷3 ― Koyosha · 50 plates
1949茶室 ― Asahi Shimbun · 170 pp.
1967数寄屋 ― Tanko Shinsha · 210 pp. · Limited to 2,000 copies · Text by Teiji Ito, photographs by Yukio Futagawa · With manuscript
1975数寄屋造り 平田雅哉作品集 正続2巻 ― Mainichi Shimbun · Vol. 1: 230 pp. / Vol. 2: 238 pp.
1977茶室作法 ― Gyobunsha · 250 pp.
1978原色日本の美術15 桂離宮と茶室 ― Shogakukan · 232 pp. · First published 1978 (revised editions exist)
1979数寄屋 建築と庭園 ― Mainichi Shimbun · 321 pp. · Text by Teiji Ito
1981茶室作法（普及版） ― 262 pp.
1983新建築 数寄屋建築へのアプローチ ― Shinkenchiku-sha · 220 pp. · Special issue
2025聴竹居――本屋・閑室・茶室 ― Kenchiku Shiryo Kenkyusha · 368 pp. · Koji Fujii

The folk-house selection centres on Yukio Futagawa’s record: from the 1955 edition that started it (this popular edition is its re-edit) to the eight-volume set covering the whole country, it shows thirty years spent on the same subject. The sukiya selection turns on Teiji Ito’s line of work, with the manuscript-bearing limited edition of “Sukiya” (1967) and “Sukiya: Architecture and Gardens” (1979) as its two poles. For the tea room itself, the Taisho-era “Kenchiku Shashin Ruiju” collections are the oldest documents, followed by the postwar “Chashitsu” (1949) and the tea-room manuals of 1977 and their popular edition of 1981.

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