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— Purple #43 S/S 2025
The Tokyo Diary Issue

the original hotel okura

by VALERIE SADOUN The Hotel Okura opened in 1962 in the Toranomon district, near the Okura Museum of Art and behind the American Embassy, just two years before the Tokyo Olympics. Designed by architect Yoshiro Taniguchi, this modernist masterpiece embodied Japanese aesthetics, elegance, and hospitality, symbolizing Japan’s postwar resurgence alongside the 1964 Olympic Games. Its […]

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