入舟堂菓子店

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In the middle of a flat white wall is an ornament like a Japanese-style window topped with a tiled eave. A long horizontal band runs across the top of the wall, and on the ground floor, beneath the eave, are an entrance and display windows. At the right edge, the vertical sign of the shop next door peeks in.

The table of contents lists this sweet shop as "入舟堂菓子店" (Irifunedo Confectionery). In the critic's words, the building lets "Japanese taste spill out" of its concrete wall. The comment also points to how the signboard pulls the building's design together, and calls the idea behind it quite fresh.

At both ends, the tiled eave reaches well past the window frame below. Just beneath it, a dark shadow falls like a band, showing that only the eave pushes forward from the flat wall.

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