春風萬里荘

笠間市「芸術の村」に佇む春風萬里荘・・・北大路魯山人が好んで用いた造語が「春風萬里」でした。
笠間市は、古くから稲荷と焼き物の町として広く知られてきましたが、その恵まれた自然環境は最近特に注目を集めています。豊かな緑と盆地特有の四季折々の自然界の変化の妙は、訪れる人の心を惹きつけて和ませてくれます。「芸術の村」は市街地を包むようにして広がるそうした緑濃い丘陵地にあります。
昭和39(1964)年、洋画家朝井閑右衛門と小説家田村泰次郎が、長谷川仁笠間日動美術館前理事長と笠間を訪れた折り、笠間にアトリエを作りたいという作家達の要望から、「芸術の村」の構想がでてきました。

Kasama City, widely known as a city of Inari (the fox deity) and pottery, drew people's new attentions especially for its abundant natural environment. Rich green and the seasonal changes of nature, special to the basin, catch and soothe the people's heart. The Village of Art located on the verdurous hilly land spreading around the city.
The initial plan of the Village of Art took shape after the wish of artists as Kanemon ASAI and a novelist Taijiro TAMURA who visited Kasama in 1964, with Mr. Jin HASEGAWA, the first director of the Kasama Nichido Museum of Art.

春風萬里荘の前には広大な庭園があり、桜、梅、つつじ、もみじ、花菖蒲などをはじめとする多くの草木が生い茂り、それぞれの趣の花々が一年中咲き誇り、訪れる者の心をひとしお和ませます。 また、江戸時代の豪農屋敷の長屋門、北大路魯山人自らが設計した茶室「夢境庵」、京都・龍安寺を模してつくられた枯山水による石庭、睡蓮の池にかかる太鼓橋などもととのえられており、美術鑑賞に疲れた来館者に憩いをもたらしています。

The vast garden in front of the Shunpu Banri-sou has the various trees and plants, as cherry trees, apricot trees, azaleas, maple trees and Japanese irises. The flowers of different tastes bloom all through the year, and sooth the visitors' hearts so much.
Besides, there are some other features offering a break to the visitors after appreciation of art; such as the nagaya gate for samurai residence in the Edo period, the tea room "Mukyo-an" designed by KITAOJI Rosanjin himself, the garden with stones without water modeled on the dry landscape of a temple Ryoan-ji in Kyoto, and an arched bridge over the pond of water lilies.

江戸時代中期の茅葺き民家を今に伝える・・・昭和の初めに北大路魯山人が北鎌倉に移築し住居に。そして笠間へ。
笠間日動美術館の分館である春風萬里荘は、昭和40(1965)年に北鎌倉より移築されました。 この茅葺き入母屋造りの重厚な構えの江戸時代中期の民家は、もともとは、現在の神奈川県厚木市近郊の地にあたる高座郡御所見村の豪族で大庄屋でもあった伊東家の母屋であったものを、昭和の初めに北大路魯山人が、北鎌倉・山崎の地にひらいた星岡窯の母屋として、もう一軒の慶雲閣と共に移築し、自らの住居としていたものです。

Handing down a thatched roofed folk house of the mid-Edo period… The house was relocated to North Kamakura by KITAOJI Rosanjin and used as his residence in the early Showa period, further changed its location to Kasama. The Shunpu Banri-sou, the annex of the Kasama Museum of Art, relocated from North Kamakura. This substantial folk house with a half-hipped thatched roof of the mid Edo period, used to be a main house of the Ito family, a well-known village headman and a powerful family at the Goshyomi Village, Kouza County, the area nearby Atsugi City, Kanagawa Prefecture, today. This house was relocated to Yamazaki at North Kamakura area in the early Showa period by KITAOJI Rosanjin, as the main house of the Seikou kiln, together with the Keiun-kaku building, and used as his residence.

昔ながらの三和土の土間の左手にある、本来は馬屋であった洋間には、年輪を刻んだ欅の木目を見せた「木レンガ」を敷きつめた床、自然石そのままを組み上げた暖炉、手斧削りの梁の棚板と古いインド風の擬人化された象の首の棚受、さらに奥には自作の陶製便器「アサガオ」があります。風呂場は脱衣所を含めると十畳間程の大きさで、長州風呂と上り湯と洗い場がゆっくりとした広さの中に配され、周りの陶板はやはり彼自作のもので、半円筒形の織部陶板が青竹のようにめぐらされ、棕櫚縄でしめられた絵付けがなされています。

In the European style room, where used to be a stable on the left of the earth floored area, you can see a floor covered with the bricks of Japanese zelkova showing their annual rings, a fireplace setting up of natural stones, the shelf boards of their surfaces curved with an adze, the self supports in the shapes of necks of personified elephants in an old style of India, and the self-made pottery urinals of funnel shape are at the further end of the room. The bathroom including a changing space is around a ten-mat (16.2m²) in size. An iron bath furnace of choshu type, a space for rinsing with hot water, and a washing space comfortably arranged in Rosanjin's way. The tiles inside the walls of the bathroom were also made by himself, the half cylindrical tiles of Oribe ware are placed around the bathroom space like a fence of green bamboos, with the painted motifs of palm ropes as if they are tighten together.

北大路魯山人展示室では常時、20～30点の陶磁器を展示しています。館内には、高橋是清、草野心平ら文化人をはじめ画家たちの書、朝倉文夫、北村四海、斉藤素厳、富樫一の彫刻、また岡本秋暉の杉戸絵などが展示されています。

The Kitanoji Rosanjin Exhibition Room permanently displays 20–30 pieces of ceramics. Other rooms feature calligraphy by artists such as Kusano Shinpei; sculptures by Asakura Fumio, Kitamura Shikai and Saito Sogan; and cedar door paintings by Okamoto Shuki.