Learning from "Hōjōki": Tiny Architecture Reweaves Life

Look for

• Walking Hōjō

  Look for a six-legged motorised chassis and, beside it, a room made from an abandoned farm feed tank, its inner wall lined with PVC pipes that work as a pipe organ.

• Yamaguchi Akira's An-an 1

  A sleeping board wedged diagonally into the building's concrete structure, reached by a step-stool you are meant to pull up after you; it is look-only.

• Chōmei's hut in Gallery 1

  Look for the bed of dried bracken among his biwa, koto and sutras: director Yoshiharu Tsukamoto tried sleeping on bracken and found it soft and fragrant.

• The Sunken Court hut and garden

  Mino-an is built from pruned branches trucked in from Ogawa in Saitama and held with latches so it can be moved, next to a medicinal herb garden by veig.

• Suda Yoshihiro's Morning Glory

  The museum says Suda's pieces sit quietly in unexpected corners, so check the lobby and the edges of the rooms as you go.

Good for

• Going Solo
• Nerding Out
• Rainy Days

Skip if

You want to go inside every hut: several, including 2m26's and Yamaguchi's An-an pieces, are look-only.

With kids

Junior high school students and under get in free.