An Indian man who constructed himself a house impressed by conventional Japanese structure and developed his personal model of the Japanese tea ceremony now entertains his visitors in the home positioned in Santiniketan, a city in India’s japanese state of West Bengal.

Nilanjan Bandyopadhyay has been lauded in native media for fulfilling the long-held dream of famend Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore, who throughout his lifetime had wished to construct his personal Japanese home in the identical space.

Named “Kokoro” after the Japanese phrase for coronary heart, the home stands within the small city positioned round 150 kilometers from the state capital Kolkata, the identical space of Visva-Bharati, a college based by Tagore.