Journal - Opera Character Yin Yu Tang: A Chinese Home

Find inspiration during your writings in a journal that is as pleasing to look at as it is to write in. The cover is a painted vignette of an opera character. Detail from the canopy bed within the 1935 marriage room in Yin Yu Tang: A Chinese Home. Yin Yu Tang, or "Hall of Plentiful Shelter," is a stately sixteen-bedroom house built in the 1790's by a prosperous merchant in the Huizhou region of southeastern China. It was home to eight generations of the Huang family for more than 200 years. Situated according to feng shui principles to ensure a harmonious relationship with the landscape, rooms are arranged around an interior "sky-well" and surrounded by decorative details, such as elaborately carved lattice and two fish pools. As part of a cultural exchange project, Yin Yu Tang: A Chinese Home and its contents were carefully dismantled from its original location in China and re-erected at the Peabody Essex Museum in 2003. PEM Exclusive --- 100 Lined pages 8.25" x 6"