{"id":1207,"date":"2022-05-31T11:36:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T02:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/?post_type=messages&#038;p=1207"},"modified":"2023-01-19T14:13:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T05:13:50","slug":"greetings-from-the-outskirts-of-kyoto-vol-20","status":"publish","type":"messages","link":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/messages\/1207\/","title":{"rendered":"Greetings from the Outskirts of Kyoto vol.20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The entrance to the Nichibunken library consists of a three-floor atrium with a high circular ceiling. It is a most impressive space.<\/p>\r\n<p>Nichibunken apparently asked the architect preparing the design, Uchii Sh\u014dz\u014d, to take the British Library as his model. Indeed, the two are not dissimilar.<\/p>\r\n<p>However, stylistically, it is closer to the Stockholm Municipal Library designed by Gunnar Asplund. I studied architecture in my youth, and that is the feeling I get. Architects who come to visit the library all confess to the same. I have since heard it directly from Uchii himself: that what he was aiming for was, indeed, Asplund-like.<\/p>\r\n<p>It may well be that Nichibunken requested the British Library. Uchii presumably assented to this before switching to something more like Asplund. Architects do that sort of thing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>My predecessors often said that the Nichibunken library was modelled after the British Library. I always thought that, actually, it was not. Here, let me record this impression for posterity.<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/\u5909\u66f4202205-\uff4d01-03-1-700x467.jpg\" alt=\"\u56f3\u66f8\u9928\u5199\u771f\" width=\"751\" height=\"501\" class=\" wp-image-1204 aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/\u5909\u66f4202205-\uff4d01-03-1-700x467.jpg 700w, https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/\u5909\u66f4202205-\uff4d01-03-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/\u5909\u66f4202205-\uff4d01-03-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/\u5909\u66f4202205-\uff4d01-03-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/\u5909\u66f4202205-\uff4d01-03-1-245x163.jpg 245w, https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/\u5909\u66f4202205-\uff4d01-03-1-490x327.jpg 490w, https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/\u5909\u66f4202205-\uff4d01-03-1-945x630.jpg 945w, https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/\u5909\u66f4202205-\uff4d01-03-1.jpg 1773w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 751px) 100vw, 751px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":1206,"template":"","message_category":[23],"class_list":["post-1207","messages","type-messages","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","message_category-serialization-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/messages\/1207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/messages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/messages"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"message_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message_category?post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}