Small Japanese shops (1/300)

[Tapcho]

Just beautifull, all of it from the very beginning. I keep returning to this thread constantly. Thank you Viator.

Tappi

[Viator]

I got an idea how to verify the scale of the scaled down printouts of buildings. Sometimes I think some of them are too big or too small. So, I made a model of my own home, which is the best known for me in order to use this model as a reference.
Of course it is not a Japanese house itself, but I will upload few images here.

[Viator]

Originally Posted by Tapcho

Just beautifull, all of it from the very beginning. I keep returning to this thread constantly. Thank you Viator.

Tappi

My pleasure! Thanks a lot!

[Viator]

The modern residential (cont.)

One more TokaWorks design: a relatively big single-family house with two bay windows.

[Viator]

Shōwa-period small cinema

I thought about the one-screen cinema for the suburban district of my diorama and I found the inspiration in the small movie theater built in late 1950s by Subaru Enterprise Co. Ltd. in Yurakucho, Tokyo. The original cinema was* a part of a bigger building but I made the model of an independent two-storey building of much smaller cinema with the original facade, adding the escape doors and stairs on the rear and other details.

* The original cinema was no longer there (see the penultimate image for info).

[Don Boose]

I like the new developments. Similar houses have appeared in a number of Japanese films that I have seen.

I once took a course on Japanese cinema during which we watched films that might have been shown in the Yurakucho Subaru-za.

Don

[Viator]

Originally Posted by Don Boose

I like the new developments. Similar houses have appeared in a number of Japanese films that I have seen.

I once took a course on Japanese cinema during which we watched films that might have been shown in the Yurakucho Subaru-za.

Don

Don, every your comment makes me want to visit Japan more and more! If I only could learn this beautiful language...

[Viator]

The old furniture store

This is one of the Takekawa Jun's models - a house dating back to the early Shōwa period. For some reason the furniture secondhands all over the world are often run in old wooden buildings like this. The house itself could be even older and only the mailbox and the waste bin look more modern. For the moment I haven't added hvac unit nor the electrical box.
I am not fully pleased with the holes between the balcony railing posts and rails - next time I will think of some better technique for making openings less than 1 square milimeter.

[Viator]

The torī gate

The uniquely Japanese object and the most recognizable symbol of shintō, the entrance from the profane to the sacred, often connected with (but not limited to) shintō shrine boundaries. This one is a free model of the Fushimi Inari shrine ichi-no torī gate originally created by Britrex in scale 1/72, rescaled to one fourth of its original size (1/288). The gate is over 8 m high, so the model was big enough (slightly over an inch high) to make every part after the original design - as hollow cuboids (or, in case of shimaki and kasagi - upper beam and its roof - more sophisticated solids).

[Don Boose]

A splendid torī, Andrew.

I have visited the Fushimi Inari shrine many times over the years (although not for over 30 years). It was one of my favorites in Japan, especially the long tunnels formed of hundreds of torīs. This site shows some views: Kyoto Travel: Fushimi Inari Shrine (Fushimi Inari Taisha)

Don