10 Things Japanese Homes Never Have — That Make American Homes Exhausting
Two Houses by Ken Tsukamoto
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If your house has gotten heavy: https://twohousesbook.com
What to keep and what to let go of — the gift ledger, the ten-room audit, and the two questions for every object.
543 pages, 96 chapters. $47 early-bird, 30-day refund.
I grew up in a Japanese house. I've now lived in America longer than I lived in Japan.
Everyone tells you Japanese homes feel calm because of minimalism, or wabi-sabi, or some philosophy about owning less. That's not it. Japan never had anywhere to put the problem — and America built somewhere.
In this video I walk through ten things you won't find in an ordinary Japanese house, starting at the front door and ending with the one that took me thirty years in this country to understand.
I'm not saying one country got it right. I like my central heating. But there are things about the house I grew up in that I couldn't see until I'd lived on both sides of it.
If you make it to the end, leave one word in the comments: done. And tell me what the object was.
Chapters
0:00 The part nobody explains
1:05 I was twelve when we moved
2:10 The step down at the front door
3:15 The room nobody sits in
4:28 Why there's no bed
5:29 Walls that move
6:22 One warm room
7:43 Rooms measured in bodies
8:36 The wall they left empty
9:33 The gift you don't want
10:46 More storage than restaurants
11:55 The box you haven't opened
13:16 One drawer
#JapaneseCulture #JapaneseHome #Minimalism #LivingInJapan #Declutter
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10 Things Japanese Homes Never Have — That Make American Homes Exhausting
Two Houses by Ken Tsukamoto
595,353 views
If your house has gotten heavy: https://twohousesbook.com
What to keep and what to let go of — the gift ledger, the ten-room audit, and the two questions for every object.
543 pages, 96 chapters. $47 early-bird, 30-day refund.
I grew up in a Japanese house. I've now lived in America longer than I lived in Japan.
Everyone tells you Japanese homes feel calm because of minimalism, or wabi-sabi, or some philosophy about owning less. That's not it. Japan never had anywhere to put the problem — and America built somewhere.
In this video I walk through ten things you won't find in an ordinary Japanese house, starting at the front door and ending with the one that took me thirty years in this country to understand.
I'm not saying one country got it right. I like my central heating. But there are things about the house I grew up in that I couldn't see until I'd lived on both sides of it.
If you make it to the end, leave one word in the comments: done. And tell me what the object was.
Chapters
0:00 The part nobody explains
1:05 I was twelve when we moved
2:10 The step down at the front door
3:15 The room nobody sits in
4:28 Why there's no bed
5:29 Walls that move
6:22 One warm room
7:43 Rooms measured in bodies
8:36 The wall they left empty
9:33 The gift you don't want
10:46 More storage than restaurants
11:55 The box you haven't opened
13:16 One drawer
#JapaneseCulture #JapaneseHome #Minimalism #LivingInJapan #Declutter