Yodok Guest House

The Yodoko Guest House changed into constructed as the summer time villa for the well-to-do brewer of Sakura-Masamune sake, Tazaemon Yamamura, and is the only surviving Frank Lloyd Wright residence in Japan. The guest house turned into designed in 1918, and production changed into completed in 1924. Set right into a hilltop in Ashiya, overlooking the Port of Kobe in western Japan, the villa demonstrates Wright's genius for spatial composition: even though it has four degrees, none is taller than two memories. By stepping the residence into the hill, Wright took benefit of the fantastic perspectives of Osaka Bay the site supplied.

The outside conjures up Wright's Los Angeles fabric block houses, but its decorative blocks are of Oya stone, no longer concrete. In 1947, the house have become the belongings of Yodogawa Steel Works, Ltd., and was used as an legitimate residence for the business enterprise president. It became the first Taishu duration building in Japan to be named an Important Cultural Property, in 1974. It changed into opened to the public as Yodoku Guest House in 1989. The building changed into broken due to the Great Hanshin earthquake in 1995, however became eventually repaired and has been re-opened.