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Phoogaphyttri｜日建設計／Nikken SekkeFeaure | PERSPECTIVES西澤崇雄Takao Nishizawa野村勘治Kanji Nomura間瀬道男Michio Mase21あり、そのお考えに共鳴して始められたのだと思います。会社としても、地域への還元となる文化的活動は大事なことと捉えていますので、現在まで明治村や有楽苑を維持してくることができました。これからも続けていけるよう、建物の価値を伝えていくことが私たちの世代の役割であると考えています。野村 明治村があったからこそ、明治の建物が残りました。そして有楽苑は、堀口捨己（1895–1984）や中村昌生（1927–2018）といった現代の茶室建築家の作風も楽しめる点で、さらなる価値が生まれていると思います。名古屋鉄道様はお茶の振興にも取り組んでいらっしゃいますね。間瀬 表千家の愛知県支部の事務局を担当してきました。愛知県はお茶が盛んな土地柄で、全国で2番目に多い会員数を保っています。西澤 文化への意識の高さは、そうした背景があるのかもしれませんね。本日は未来の建築づくりのヒントにもなるお話を、いろいろ伺うことができました。ありがとうございました。1 : 日本庭園 有楽苑。1 : The tea house at Urakuen garden.2022年7月22日 有楽苑にて。July 22, 2022, at Urakuen.Urakuen garden and the Museum Meiji-mura. What motivated the company to involve itself in such efforts to contribute to society?Michio Mase (Mase) During the postwar period of rapid econom-ic growth, buildings from the Meiji period (1868–1912) were being torn down one after another. Architect Yoshiro Taniguchi (1904–1979) grew alarmed at the loss of these buildings and his concern was shared by then president of Nagoya Railroad, a friend and fellow university classmate. It’s important to us as a company to be active in cultural activities that give something back to the local area, and the preservation of cultural assets like Urakuen and the Museum Meiji-mura is certainly part of that endeavor.Nomura Thanks to the Museum Meiji-mura, we can still appre-ciate historical architecture from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. And in the case of Urakuen, there is additional value in that it allows us to appreciate the building style of modern architects like Sutemi Horiguchi and Masao Nakamura, who are known for their work on tea houses. Nagoya Railroad Co. is also involved in the promotion of the arts of tea (chanoyu).Mase I have long served in the Aichi Prefecture branch of the Omotesenke school of tea. The Aichi region has a large num-ber of tea-ceremony practitioners; in fact, the Aichi branch of Omotesenke has the second-largest nationwide.Nishizawa Perhaps it is this sort of context that fosters strong cultural awareness. Today we’ve been privileged to learn many things that can help us advance architecture in the future. Thank you very much joining us.