Dining Room

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/9.0 · 1/6 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A wicker chair sits alone on a collapsed tile floor. Moss spreads across the debris. Curtains hang from the windows. The ceiling is open to timber framing. Green hills press against the glass.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Dining Room
Series: Kinugawa Kan
Catalogue: KKA-002
Process: Giclée
Captured: 9 May 2016
Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/9.0
Shutter: 1/6 s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 14 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 290 × 200 mm
Location: Nikko, Tochigi, Japan
Authenticity: C2PA verified provenance →
Recognised by: Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards

02 LOCATION

Nikko, Tochigi, Japan

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03 THE STORY

About this print

The dining room at Kinugawa Kan runs along the river-side face of the building, with a long row of windows looking out across the Kinugawa gorge to the cliffs and ryokans on the opposite bank. The room is fitted with low banquet-style tables and zaisu floor chairs, arranged in long parallel rows. A porter's trolley sits against one wall, its top piled with dust. The tatami flooring is stained in patches where moisture worked at the matting. The walls carry traditional decorative panels at intervals. Across the gorge, a tall hotel building rises above the trees, its facade still intact, still operating. The light through the windows falls across the room in long horizontal bars.

The dining hall hosted the multi-course kaiseki dinners that were the centrepiece of the ryokan experience at Kinugawa Kan. Guests changed into yukata in their rooms before dinner and walked down to the hall in slippers. Servers brought each course in turn. The view across the gorge to the hotels opposite was part of the meal. Kinugawa Kan opened in December 1942 and ran for nearly six decades before entering business suspension in June 1999. The porter's trolley in this photograph stayed in place when the building was sealed, along with the tables, the chairs, and the kaiseki dishes left in the kitchen behind.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A thick mat of moss stretches across the floor, creeping over broken tiles and fallen plaster where water has steadily seeped through from above. The stamped concrete beneath is barely visible, lost beneath years of slow decay and the quiet persistence of nature.

Brett Patman

The series

Kinugawa Kan

2016 · 22 photographs

Hoshi Takashi (星堯) incorporated Yugen-gaisha Kinukawa-kan Honten (有限会社きぬ川館本店) on 31 December 1942, on the Kinugawa River gorge in what is now Nikko City. The hotel grew to nine storeys, 70 guest rooms, one restaurant, and the Kappa-buro (かっぱ風呂) hot-spring bath on the river. In June 1999 the company filed for bankruptcy with debts of approximately 30億円, the first hotel at Kinugawa Onsen to fail in the post-bubble era.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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