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Hi I was revisiting Noun Phrase, and I wanted to cover up several aspects of の
using a single noun phrase, but I was getting a bit confused with that regard.

So, following is my sentence: (Please note there maybe other ways of
describing but I want to make it using particle の only to check out the order
of positioning of particle の, which involves different modifier)

日本の山田さんの日本人の友達の田中さんの赤い木の家は高いです。

What I want to say; Yamada san's Japanese Friend Tanaka san's red tree house
in Japan (location of house in Japan) = Noun Phrase

...is expensive.

In this sentence multiple uses of の are involved

日本: Positioning Modifier for House (in Japan)

山田: Possessive Modifier for Tanaka san (山田's Friend)

日本人: Noun Modifier for Friend (Japanese Friend)

友達の田中さん: Apposition Modifier for Tanaka san (who is a friend or my friend
Tanaka san)

赤い: I-Adjective for Modifying the Colour of the House

木: Noun Modifier for House (as in Tree House)

So, following are my 3 questions:

  1. Is it Grammatical? As I was getting confused with the position of Positional Modifier (of where the house is) and Possessive Modifier i.e. using 山田さんの日本の。。。

  2. Is this a natural order I.e. Position (Place) -> Possessive Marker -> Noun Modifier (optional) -> Apposition -> Adjective -> Noun Modifier -> Noun (Main)?

  3. Is there any difference between 赤い木の家 or 木の赤い家 in the following sentence?

Thank You

(FYI - I tried using Google Translator, but it was showing different results
each time I tried to put this in)

教えてください
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particle-の nouns grammar
Positioning of Particle の in the Noun Phrase
> Is it Grammatical? As I was getting confused with the position of Positional
> Modifier (of where the house is) and Possessive Modifier i.e. using 山田さんの日本の

It's grammatical, but I read this as 日本の山田さん "Yamada-san (living) in Japan",
not 日本の家. You could have said 日本にある田中さんの赤い木の家 ("Tanaka's red wooden house
located in Japan"), though, because ある cannot modify a person for the obvious
reason.

> Is this a natural order I.e. Position (Place) -> Possessive Marker -> Noun
> Modifier (optional) -> Apposition -> Adjective -> Noun Modifier -> Noun
> (Main)?

Sorry, I have never thought about this consciously. I know [English has a rule
regarding this](https://english.stackexchange.com/q/1155/80278), but I have
never seen a Japanese equivalent. [This
answer](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/26047/5010) may be related.

Anyway, using three or more の's in succession is almost always bad even if
it's not ambiguous (See [Would you say 日系アメリカ人の歴史のポータル or
日系アメリカ人の歴史ポータル?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/62838/5010)). You can
always come up with a less confusing expression using appropriate verbs and
particles. For example, in this case I would say
山田さんの日本人の友達である田中さんが日本で住んでいる赤い木の家は高い.

> Is there any difference between 赤い木の家 or 木の赤い家

They practically refer to the same thing, but 赤い木の家 is more natural if you
want to simply say "red wooden house". (See [Odd position of
adjective](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/79999/5010))
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