The passage of a century
当初は家主がゴルフをやるために作ったと言われていますが、数学者小平邦彦やその家族が避暑に夏だけ使っていました。全体としては大きな補修や改修はしておらず、居間や寝室、風呂場も五右衛門風呂の風呂釜を現在も使っています。窓ガラスも木枠で平滑でない当時のものが残っている部分も多く、2階の寝室などの内観はほぼ百年前の雰囲気を今も保っています。
A space where time has stopped
This building is a Karuizawa villa.
Thank you for visiting us to investigate the registered tangible cultural property. This house was completed here around 1928 (Showa 3) and has been used as a holiday home for three generations since then. The site faces Karuizawa's main tourist route, which runs from St. Paul's Catholic Church, built in 1935 (Showa 5), through Kashima Forest, and still retains much of its original appearance to this day . With four rooms on the second floor and one private room on the first floor, the house has been used to invite many people to Karuizawa in the summer and as a place to foster interaction since the days when Mount Asama could be seen from the site. In particular, the second owner, Kodaira Kunihiko,
It was also used as a seminar house during the time of (the first Japanese Fields Medal winner).
However, I would like to continue doing this for as long as I can.
