Among all the storehouse-style buildings in the Bikan Historical Quarter of Kurashiki, most of then with grey-white walls and roofs, there is a house, the Yurinso Villa, that stands out because of its unique green ceramic roof tiles.

Aptly nicknamed “the Green Palace", the house was built by Magosaburo Ōhara, a businessman who owned a textile company and founded the Ōhara Art Museum, the oldest museum of western art in Japan.

Yurinso Villa, Bikan Historical Quarter, Kurashiki, Okayama

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