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  • Jan 22nd, 2007 at 9: 06 pm james second only to minka, which is way downtown …

    Menchanko-Tei | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan 2006

  • "This house is part Schindler, part Scarpa, a little bit Frank Lloyd Wright, part minka," says Vicki, setting out two steaming cups of tea in the library.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • And by that she means architects Rudolph Schindler, Carlo Scarpa, Wright, and the style of her home, minka, a private residence built in a traditional Japanese style.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • For more information, call Minka van der Zwaag at 650-329-2280 or e-mail minka. vanderzwaag@cityofpaloalto.org.

    PaloAltoOnline.com 2010

  • For more information, call Minka van der Zwaag at 650-329-2280 or e-mail minka. vanderzwaag@cityofpaloalto.org.

    PaloAltoOnline.com 2010

  • For more information, call Minka van der Zwaag at 650-329-2280 or e-mail minka. vanderzwaag@cityofpaloalto.org.

    PaloAltoOnline.com 2010

  • For more information, call Minka van der Zwaag at 650-329-2280 or e-mail minka. vanderzwaag@cityofpaloalto.org.

    PaloAltoOnline.com 2010

  • For more information, call Minka van der Zwaag at 650-329-2280 or e-mail minka. vanderzwaag@cityofpaloalto.org.

    PaloAltoOnline.com 2010

  • Sissy Miyage walks around aimlessly in her minka (free-standing Japanese home).

    Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views' 2010

  • Sissy Miyage walks around aimlessly in her minka (free-standing Japanese home).

    Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views' 2010

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  • The examples are spam.

    October 31, 2009

  • This story begins when Associated Press foreign correspondent John Roderick became the unlikely owner of an enormous, rundown farmhouse, or “minka.” AIA-MN

    February 22, 2016