House of shadows. (Chikatsu-Asuka Historical Museum in Osaka, Japan)

The Architectural Review | August 1, 1995| | Copyright

Tadao Ando's recently completed museum for the study of ancient Japanese burial mounds has both formal rigour and spiritual intensity.

The southern part of Osaka prefecture contains a remarkable aggregation of ancient Japanese burial mounds (kofun), dating from the fifth and sixth century. Scattered across the undulating terrain are about 200 tumuli, among them four imperial tombs with characteristic keyhole forms and the tomb of Ono-no-Imoko, Japan's first ambassador to China. The new Chikatsu-Asuka Historical Museum was conceived as a centre for exhibiting and ...

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