Our first major trip for the 2018 travel period was to Nihon Minka-en in Kawasaki Japan
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| This is a typical Japanese Folk Home. With a steep roof to preclude snow build up. |
All of the houses have a basic design. a main area, a kitchen, facilities of some kind. Most have Tatami mats which, depending on your status varied in the number. Rooms are often designated by the number of mats (IE a 6 mat room or a 9 mat room)
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| An example of a cooking arrangement. |
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| Look at how the beams are used in the house design vice shaping them |
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| Cooking facilities |
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| Fancy, but typical arrangement |
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Most have 2 sets of shoji screens, internal and externals with a walkway that usually goes (at least) partway around the house. Sometimes the walkways go all the way around.
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| The roof is made of reeds, a special art. Usually done every 20 years or so. |
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| The cooking facilities. interestingly enough, most of these homes do not have chimneys |
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| Earthen walls |
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| Reed screens and walls |
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| See the thickness of the roofing material. |
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| Looks like a 10 mat room. |
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