A guest room at Kinugawa Kan. Tatami mats and a small lacquered cabinet remain largely undisturbed, and dust has settled across the room.

Main Guest Room

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/9.0 · 1/10 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A guest room at Kinugawa Kan. Tatami mats and a small lacquered cabinet remain largely undisturbed, and dust has settled across the room. Light filters through the paper panels of the shoji screens, which still hold their form in this former Japanese ryokan.

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In situ

Main Guest Room at Kinugawa Kan, black-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

Main Guest Room at Kinugawa Kan, raw timber-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

Main Guest Room at Kinugawa Kan, glass print displayed in situ on a wall.

01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Main Guest Room
Series: Kinugawa Kan
Catalogue: KKA-014
Process: Giclée
Captured: 9 May 2016
Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/9.0
Shutter: 1/10 s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 14 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 297 × 210 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

A guest room at Kinugawa Kan. The tatami mats and a small lacquered cabinet remain largely undisturbed, and dust has settled across the room. A solitary wooden table stands in the balcony doorway, with a display case holding a traditional doll and an open multi-compartment cabinet alongside. Light filters through the paper panels of the shoji screens, which still hold their form.

Rooms at Kinugawa Kan were booked for honeymoons, family events, and corporate retreats during the hotel's run. The Tokyo express train brought guests directly to Kinugawa from Asakusa in around two hours; from the station, the hotel sent a small shuttle van. Kinugawa Kan declared bankruptcy in June 1999, the first major ryokan in the gorge to close in the post-bubble period. The room in this photograph has been sealed since. The lacquered cabinet, the table and the original tatami remain, and the screens still hold their form.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Tatami mats line the floor of a corner guest room at Kinugawa Kan. Shoji screens stand open on two sides, their wooden lattice frames warped slightly from humidity. Beyond the balcony, dense green canopy presses close. A single stool sits near the curtain. A lacquered box rests on a low crate by the wall. Light falls soft and flat across the woven straw. A small cabinet holds a television set pushed against the right wall. The air in here is still and damp.

Brett Patman

The series

Kinugawa Kan

22 photographs

Kinugawa Kan (きぬ川館本店, Kinukawa-kan Honten) was a hotel in Kinugawa Onsen, a hot-spring town in Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. Known by the nickname Kappa-buro, it accommodated many group tour guests, and the business collapsed in 1999 with debts of 3 billion yen. The photographs show a tatami guest room with shoji screens and a low table, a curved bath of small mosaic tiles under an arched wall of windows, and medal game and pachinko machines.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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