Kitchen Size:XS Built at State Dockyard

Built at State Dockyard

textbooks and papers left where students last put them when the school closed in 2009

painted to replicate an 1880s American frontier town on a narrow riverside site in Nikko

photographed in 2015

Kitchen Size:XS Built at State DockyardThe kitchen at Seika Dormitory sits as it was left: rusting pots and pans still on the stove, light falling through broken windows onto dust covered surfaces. Built in 1927 by the Gakuso Foundation to house Taiwanese students studying in Tokyo, the building stood sealed and abandoned for six years after a July 2007 fire displaced its final residents. Part of the Seika Dormitory series.