A next generation Machiya house appeared in Kyoto. Normally, a Machiya is a long house with a narrow street frontage stretching long towards the back, and is often called an "eel bed"; however, this house is designed to have a wide frontage and short depth. That means that it has a large frontage area facing the street. By utilizing the large frontage with a huge sash frame, the dynamics of the fusion of housing area and shop area (a secondhand book shop) are fully expressed. If you look at the house from a distance, it has a wide stretched shape, and its extremely simple design has succeeded in showing the way of a new city house that combines working and dwelling. While bookshops in the town close the doors to their business one after another, this is a very modern way for a secondhand book shop to survive by combining the owners' business with their living. We can imagine that this may produce a community in the town based on books. This is a very important design that generates a new trend of the times.