Katsura Imperial Villa able to create new rooms within the architecture. For instance by moving one fusuma wall, one could transform two rooms into one large room and a small storage closet. In the Katsura Imperial Villa, the fusuma allows the rooms to change and open up to the natural world with exterior decks becoming extensions of the interior and framing views of the landscape. An example of this type of transformation is the moon viewing platform connected to the Old Shoin. Besides these characteristics, there are many traditional Japanese ideas that are used in the Katsura Imperial Villa, like the decorative alcove
Ministry of the Imperial Household Household Office became the Imperial Household Agency (the current name), and placed under the fold of the newly created , as an external agency attached to it. In 2001, the Imperial Household Agency was organizationally re-positioned under the . The court developed a supporting bureaucracy which was exclusively focused on serving the needs of the Imperial Household . Among the "ritsuryō" officials within this ministry structure were: The deliberate redundancies at the top are features of each position in this remarkably stable hierarchic schema. Many positions would mirror the "-kyō," "-taifu," "-shō," "-jō," and "-sakan" pattern. Ministry of the Imperial