Nishida Kitaro's Study Kosseikutsu

The Western Room of a Philosopher's House

The Nishida Kitaro's Study Kosseikutsu (西田幾多郎書斎骨清窟) is a Western-style study of 1923 in Uchihisumi, Kahoku City, Ishikawa Prefecture, and was registered as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property (structure) on March 18, 2003 (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

The Agency records a single-storey timber building with a slate roof and a building area of 20 square metres, moved here in 1974; registration number 17-0069.

The Western Room of Nishida Kitaro's House

Kosseikutsu is the Western-style room of the house of the philosopher Nishida Kitaro (Agency for Cultural Affairs). Two bays by three, the size of twelve mats, it has a gabled sheet-iron roof, a terrace on the south and a chimney rising from the middle of the west wall.

Outside, the lower walls are clad in orange tiles and the upper walls in roughcast (Agency for Cultural Affairs). It was moved to its present site in 1974.

Why It Was Registered

The Agency calls it a fine example of the Western-style reception room beside the entrance of a Taisho-era "culture house", and registered it as a model of design.

What to Look For

Look for the orange-tiled lower walls, the roughcast above and the chimney on the west wall (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

Visiting

It is owned by Kahoku City (Agency for Cultural Affairs). No official information on public access was found.