A Kyoto sukiya builder whose published work includes repairing tea rooms at Tōji-in and Gyokurin-in.
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Noguchi Komuten was founded in 1970 in Nishikyō Ward, Kyoto, and works on traditional buildings, sukiya houses and timber homes. President Katsuyuki Noguchi joined under his predecessor and father (野口幸和), and is a member of the Kyoto Traditional Architecture Technology Association.
Noguchi trained at the Fuefuki Sukiya workshop, where father and son both studied under the master builders Fuefuki Kaichirō (笛吹嘉一郎) and Fuefuki Gen (笛吹厳), making him a grand-pupil of Fuefuki Kaichirō. There he worked on renovating the tea rooms of Gyokurin-in at Daitoku-ji (Nanmei-an, Sa-an, Tōun-an), renovating the Tekisui-an tea room at Ōkōchi Sansō, and new tea rooms at Kokawa-dera and Shōraku-ji; on his own he has renovated a tea room and built a waiting arbor at Tenryū-ji.
Recent projects include dismantling and repairing the Seiren-tei tea room at Tōji-in, repairing Tōun-an at Gyokurin-in, and new buildings and a waiting arbor for Jukō-in's Itō annex. The firm also shows work such as fitting a house for both an electric and a charcoal sunken hearth, and making hearth frames. A good match for those who want a traditional house or a serious tea room.
Dismantling repair of a tea room said to reflect Ashikaga Yoshimasa's taste. Designation took about 18 months; with help from Nakamura Masao of the Kyoto Traditional Architecture Technology Association, work began in late October 2016 with a Kyoto City subsidy as part of a designated garden. The company revisited it eight years later.
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Repair of the wing walls of the corridor leading to the tea rooms at Gyokurin-in, Daitoku-ji, finished in genuine juraku plaster.
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New construction of Jukō-in's Itō branch temple; the page also shows the completed waiting bench and re-plastered tea room walls.
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New koshikake machiai waiting bench for the garden of the Itō branch temple.
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Repair of the Dōun-an tea room at Gyokurin-in, Daitoku-ji.
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Tea rooms at Gyokurin-in that Noguchi worked on while at the Fuefuki sukiya workshop.
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Photos of tea room work at Gyokurin-in and the Seto residence.
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A new tea room built while Noguchi was at the Fuefuki sukiya workshop.
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A sukiya-style gate with a built-in waiting bench for a house in Takarazuka.
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Work at Sansuien; the gallery also shows okoshi-e drawings of its tea rooms (copies of Fushin-an and Zangetsu-tei).
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An example of kokera roofing laid with thin overlapping wood shingles.
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The company believes timber suits Japan's climate: walls, tatami, shoji and fusuma regulate humidity so the house breathes. Each wood has a role: cedar purifies air, hinoki purifies and sterilizes, pine is tough for structure, chestnut resists rot for sills.
Combining the skills of carpenters, plasterers and joiners with natural, ideally local, materials, it aims for houses whose age becomes beauty.
Because buildings are alive and decline without care, the company also handles upkeep such as gate repairs, wood preservative and water-repellent treatment, and adjusting fittings in houses it renovated over a decade earlier.
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| Company | Noguchi Komuten Co., Ltd. |
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| Address | 90 Shimotsubayashi Banjō-chō, Nishikyō-ku, Kyoto 615-8057 |
| Founded | Founded July 1970; incorporated July 1983 |
| Representative | Katsuyuki Noguchi, President (sukiya master carpenter) |
| Business | Traditional buildings, sukiya and timber houses; repair of temples, shrines and tea rooms |
| Membership | Member, Kyoto Traditional Architecture Technology Association |
| Phone | +81-75-381-8746 (fax +81-75-391-1894) |
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