{"id":130633,"date":"2020-03-11T15:41:12","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T06:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=130633&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2020-03-18T13:32:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T04:32:29","slug":"historic-kenjiro-matsumoto-residence-open-house","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/historic-kenjiro-matsumoto-residence-open-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Kenjiro Matsumoto Residence Open House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former residence of Kenjiro Matsumoto in Kitakyushu City (listed as an Important Cultural Assets and Heritage of Industrial Modernization of Japan) will welcome visitors on April 29. The 1912-built guest house, representing a combination of art nouveau and traditional <em>shinden-zukuri<\/em> style, accepts visitors only once a year. In addition to admiring gorgeous architecture and tableware, music live and <em>matcha<\/em> tea corner will also be available. To attend, apply in advance via mail &#8211; see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city.kitakyushu.lg.jp\/tobata\/file_0112.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">official website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-130639\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/historic-kenjiro-matsumoto.jpg?resize=1280%2C960&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/historic-kenjiro-matsumoto.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/historic-kenjiro-matsumoto.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/historic-kenjiro-matsumoto.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/historic-kenjiro-matsumoto.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>Photo: Ian Ruxton<\/p>\n<p><strong>Details<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 4\/29 (Wed., hol.)<br \/>\n\u2022 10:00~17:00<br \/>\n\u2022 Free (limited 1,000 persons\/ reservation required)<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/sVRzzr3JiW1db9bL8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1-4-33 Ichieda, Tobata-ku, Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city.kitakyushu.lg.jp\/tobata\/file_0112.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.city.kitakyushu.lg.jp\/tobata\/file_0112.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-130638\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/historic-kenjiro-matsumoto-residence.jpg?resize=2016%2C1512&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/historic-kenjiro-matsumoto-residence.jpg?w=2016&amp;ssl=1 2016w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/historic-kenjiro-matsumoto-residence.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/historic-kenjiro-matsumoto-residence.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/historic-kenjiro-matsumoto-residence.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/historic-kenjiro-matsumoto-residence.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>Photo: Ian Ruxton<\/p>\n<p>Sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city.kitakyushu.lg.jp\/tobata\/file_0112.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.city.kitakyushu.lg.jp\/tobata\/file_0112.html<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/mainichi.jp\/articles\/20200229\/ddl\/k40\/040\/471000c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/mainichi.jp\/articles\/20200229\/ddl\/k40\/040\/471000c<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former residence of Kenjiro Matsumoto in Kitakyushu City (listed as an Important Cultural Assets and Heritage of Industrial Modernization of Japan) will welcome visitors on April 29. The 1912-built guest house, representing a combination of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29354,"featured_media":130639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-130633","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-kitakyushu","news-category-general","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/130633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}