Built in Japan, the house follows a 17th-century shoin-zukuri design of a temple guest house and contains a tea room, bath, kitchen, and a cypress wood hinoki bark roof. Shofuso's showcase of ...

NANAO, Ishikawa Prefecture—In the guest hall of Seirinji temple here, the dark surface of a large, low table, polished to a shine, reflected the surrounding seasonal garden like an enormous mirror.