Former Tanaka Family Residence
The Former Tanaka Family Residence is a western-style building located in Kawaguchi, Saitama.
It was constructed in 1923 for Tokubei Tanaka, a miso industrialist. He later went into politics.
The building from the outside is constructed in brick. Inside however there are Japanese-style rooms and western-style rooms. The building was unusual for its time that it had three stories already. It is an example of early western influence on architecture in Japan. For example, the wooden staircase is in the western-style. The fusuma sliding door on the outside is western, however the room it leads to is Japanese and therefore the inside of the sliding door is in traditional Japanese-style as well.
The residence is not be confused with the one located in the Kyōdo-no-Mori museum in Fuchū, Tokyo, which was relocated there.
