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Tea House, Cape Cod
A formal tea house brought from Japan and revived after seventy years.
Restoration of a formal Japanese tea house on Cape Cod — shoji windows and doors, fusuma, engawa veranda, mizuya shelves, jurakukabe plaster, and tatami.
At the end of the war, the American ambassador brought a formal tea house from Japan to Cape Cod. Seventy years later it stood like a ruin. We restored it — shoji windows and doors, fusuma, the mizuya shelves, the engawa veranda, jurakukabe plaster, tatami.
Tea house restoration demands patience and traditional knowledge: each element has a role in the composition, and each repair must honor the original craft while surviving a New England climate.
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