A Japanese Touch for Your Home

A JAPANESE TOUCH FOR YOUR HOME
The Japanese house offers bold and exciting ideas
for people thinking about remodeling their home or
redoing their apartment. This book describes the
basic elements of Japanese interior design and then
shows you how to use them. Install tatami mats
and shoji doors—quintessential elements of Japanese
interior design—and see how beautifully
they respond to the American home. Change the
size and shape of a room, easily and tastefully, with
bamboo screens and movable partitions. Build a
simple Japanese-style alcove, decorate it with
something special, and then flaunt it. Try some
Japanese lighting techniques—low, soft, and beautiful.
Change the mood of a room, change your
way of looking at things.
There's much more in this book. Practical, approachable,
and authentic, it is written by a young
Japanese architect concerned about the demands of
contemporary life-styles and the answers that traditional
Japanese design has to offer.
Over 120 color plates taken by a leading Japanese
photographer accompany the informed text.
In addition, over 200 black and white sketches,
floor plans, a section on do-it-yourself projects,
and a list of organizations in the U.S. one may consult
make this a book that will pique your desire to
be creative and then show you how to fulfill it. A
practical guide for homeowners, for interior
designers, for people who like to work with their
heads and their hands, this book may be the beginning
of a new way of living for you.
THE AUTHOR
Koji Yagi was born in 1944 in Aichi Prefecture, Japan,
and graduated from the Department of Architecture
of the Tokyo Institute of Technology in
1969. From 1971 to 1974, he worked with the
Syrian government as a technical advisor sent by
the Overseas Technical Cooperation Agency of Japan.
From 1975 to 1976, he was with the Tropical
Building Research Group at Queensland University
in Australia, conducting research on indigenous
housing of the South Pacific. In 1980 he was a
visiting assistant professor at the University of
Oklahoma, affiliated with the Environmental
Design Department. Mr. Yagi currently teaches
and does research at the Tokyo Institute of
Technology. In addition, he is a practicing architect.
He recently translated into Japanese The
American House by Mary Mix Foley, and contributes
regularly to leading architectural journals
in Japan.