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13 during a preview of a 320-year-old shoya house that opens to the public this Saturday at the Huntington Library and Gardens in San Marino.the house was in need of restoration that could only be performed by trained artisans and experts of traditional construction in Japan.

org for admission rates and information.and also served as a community center.Golonka/Courtesy The Huntington Library.

Akira and Yohko Yokoi in front of the 320-year-old ancestral home they have donated to the Huntington.Rafu Travel LeisureSAN MARINO —There is a singular peace that is built into a traditional Japanese house.

the house sat vacant for nearly 30 years.

After 10 months of work in Matsuyama.and the family would not return to their Menlo Park home until April 1945.

San Antonio Gardens up until her death last fall.determined that all their children would attend college.

Armstrong found her world upended in 1942 during World War II when her entire family was sent to a U.were both born in Japan and came to the U.