From Japan: Hatoyama Hall, also called as the Otowa Palace.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Hatoyama Hall, also called as the Otowa Palace.

The incumbent Japanese Prime Minister, Yukio Hatoyama is a supreme rich son.
He comes from a prominent Japanese political family.
The house where he grew up is still in the center of Tokyo.
Hatoyama Hall, also called as the Otowa Palace, is opened to the public now.

You climb the long incline from the gate.

In general, it cannot be in the center of Tokyo where the land price is very high.

The brochure is here.

The Hatoyama Hall is a residence built by his grandfather, Ichiro Hatoyama also served as the Japanese Prime Minister.

After the war, this mansion is counted in one of the important stages of a political history.

Ichiro Hatoyama was sitting on this sofa at that time.

This teapot is very beautiful.

The spirit of wabi-sabi has been filled in the Japanese tearoom.

The ceiling light is also beautiful.

Beautiful flowers are decorated here and there in this mansion.

Mirrors are effectively arranged in this room.

The surrounding environment is such feeling.

The mansion has a lot of beautiful designs in the details.

There are a lot of motifs of the pigeon because there is "Pigeon" in the Chinese character for "Hatoyama" of their family name.

The sunroom gets a lot of sunshine.

There are also a lot of objects of pigeon in the garden.

The appearance of the building is the Western style.

Horned owls are decolated on the position upper in the building.

This statue is Ichiro Hatoyama.
It was donated as Japan-Soviet Joint Declation and the 50th Japan-Russia rapprochement anniversary by the committee of the 21st century in Russia.

These are Kazuo Hatoyama and Haruko Hatoyama, parents of Ichiro.
Kazuo was the principal of Waseda University and Speaker of the House of Representatives successively.