Next, we visited Middle Villa. There are two houses there, Rakushiken and Kyakuden(guest room). Rakushiken is said that it was built in 1688 or 1687.
Kyakuden is famous for their interiors.
There is a stair-shaped shelf(chigai dana), and it is one of the most famous stair-shaped shelves. I knew the same kind of shelf of Katsura Rikyu, but I couldn’t see it of Katsura Rikyu. The shelf in Shugakuin was cool. It made my mind rich. I could see a picture of capes on fusuma-slid-door. And also I could see a net on the same picture. According to the guide, this capes seemed like still alive, so Maruyama Okyo drew the net afterwards, because of not to escape these capes.