Motoyoshi Tachiko's cabin on the YSS Battle Of Ayenee Capital City is Deck 45, Cabin 4501, a custom commission, patterned after traditional architecture found in Yamataian Culture.
In YE 44, Motoyoshi Tachiko was assigned Cabin 45011) on Deck 45 of the YSS Battle Of Ayenee Capital City, and was given permission to personalize the cabin. Given the opportunity to choose between a Star Army Standard Captain's Suite and a Star Army Admiral's Suite, or commission a custom one based on the size of either2), Tachiko chose the latter option with the latter floorplan, designing a fully custom, highly-personalized quarters.
The cabin itself may occupy the footprint of a Star Army Admiral's Suite, but its design diverges significantly. It centers around a large, reconfigurable open space, as found in traditional Yamataian architecture. Many of the customizations center around her most significant pastimes: gourmet cooking, and martial arts. While large in footprint, the space is very austere and minimalist.
The wall between the living room and bedroom in a typical Star Army Admiral's Suite has been removed, creating one large room. The interior space is constructed to resemble a washitsu room in a transitional style between the traditional Shoin-zukuri and Sukiya-zukuri architectural styles.
The walls of the room are dark wood paneling. When one enters from the corridor, there is a stone-tiled genkan with a getabako storage cubby for shoes built into the wall, on the right-hand side as one is coming in, with a built-in bench across the doorway, a shelf above it, and to either side of the door on its own wall, a full-length mirror. One steps upwards on the raised engawa floor, made of polished wood where sliding, translucent shoji screens lead into the room proper. Inside, the entire floor is covered with tatami mats, and more sliding screens, opaque fusuma, that fold out of hidden storage in the wall paneling and slide along tracks in the floor and ceiling to subdivide the room if necessary.
Immediately after entering, to left is the tokonoma alcove, displaying a calligraphed wall scroll with the Evening Orchid poem, along with Tachiko's ceremonial sword, medal box, and kamidana, and beyond it the chigai-dana alcove, with its built in cabinets and shelves that display fine porcelain and bonsai. Past that, against the outer bulkhead, the tsuke-shoin, a built-in writing desk below the Volumetric Windows that have sliding shoji shutters.
Built-in, hidden storage, in the form of cabinets and closets lines the walls, and one in the very back, behind several sliding dividers, contain the simple futon3), along with makura-style pillows and fitted sheets, which can be rolled out every rest period for sleeping, and put away neatly after. A second set is available for a guest. There is also built-in storage with shelves, drawers, and hooks behind a wall panel especialy for Star Army Standard Issue Items. A simple tansu chest stores the scant few other personal effects of the owner that aren't already on display in the tokonoma in the main room.
Adjacent to the sleeping area, across another sliding divider, is a space with a low chabudai table surrounded by four zabuton cushions, and a cart bearing a tray for tea service. There is a simple irori hearth with hanging hook in the floor to prepare tea. Another tansu chest stores the tea and associated items, as well as spare tea service porcelain and cleaning supplies.
The bathroom was also renovated to a more rustic, traditional style. When first entering, there is a small room containing a small vanity sink and built-in shelves for towels and toiletries. To one side, a squat toilet is in a small, private room of its own with a solid door, while a sliding, frosted-glass door leads to the ofuro style bath, with a drain in the tiled floor, a handheld shower head on a hook on the wall, and a pair of washing stools in front of the wall-mounted hot and cold water knobs. Beside it is a wooden soaking tub with a fold-away cover.
A stark contrast to the traditionalist approach elsewhere in the cabin, the space that used to be the office has been converted into a state-of-the-art, high-end professional kitchen, the same sort which is in a Takeda House, though smaller. It has its own walk-in refrigerator and a smaller walk-in freezer, pantries, and sanitary sinks, along with the burners, grills, and prep counters.
Separated from the kitchen by a noren curtain hung in the divider's doorway, the former aide's office has been made into a small, intimate dining and bar area in the style of an izakaya similar to a Tachi's but smaller in scale. A small wooden bar has a few stools, and there are a couple of low tables in wall-booths surrounded by equally-low built-in benches. The door to the corridor of this room allows people to come in to eat and drink without traveling through Tachiko's living area, and there is another built-in getabako shelf for shoes right inside it.
This page was originally created on 2023/01/21 06:42 by Yuuki. It was created as part of Hinomaru Sunrises II Month 1 Plot Event: Cabin Fever.
