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  2. Japanese architecture - Wikipedia

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    Japanese design is based strongly on craftsmanship, beauty, elaboration, and delicacy. The design of interiors is very simple but made with attention to detail and intricacy. This sense of intricacy and simplicity in Japanese designs is still valued in modern Japan as it was in traditional Japan. [89]

  3. Housing in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Additionally, advertisements quote the sizes of the rooms—most importantly, the living room—with measurements in tatami mats (jō (畳) in Japanese), traditional mats woven from rice straw that are standard sizes: 176 by 88 cm (69 by 35 in) in the Tokyo region and 191 cm by 95.5 cm in western Japan. "2DK; one six-tatami Japanese-style room ...

  4. Machiya - Wikipedia

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    The Tōmatsu house from Funairi-chō, Nagoya, is an example of a large machiya. Machiya façade in Kyoto Old fabric shop in Nara. Machiya (町屋/町家) are traditional wooden townhouses found throughout Japan and typified in the historical capital of Kyoto.

  5. Minka - Wikipedia

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    Minka (Japanese: 民家, lit. "folk houses") are vernacular houses constructed in any one of several traditional Japanese building styles. In the context of the four divisions of society , Minka were the dwellings of farmers, artisans, and merchants (i.e., the three non- samurai castes ). [ 1 ]

  6. Nagaya (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    Historically, similar houses were built around a rich manor or castle for low-ranking samurai. [2] [3] Later, they accommodated both samurai and commoners. At the ends of the building shops were located, typically, their owners living in adjacent rooms. The wealthier tenants lived in the rooms facing the street.

  7. Sukiya-zukuri - Wikipedia

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    In the Azuchi-Momoyama period not only sukiya style but the contrasting shoin-zukuri (書院造) of residences of the warrior class developed. While sukiya was a small space, simple and austere, shoin-zukuri style was that of large, magnificent reception areas, the setting for the pomp and ceremony of the feudal lords.

  8. Super-aged Japan now has 9 million vacant homes. And ... - AOL

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    A partly collapsed abandoned wooden house in Tambasasayama, Japan on April 05, 2023 - Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images So, all that means the problem of too many homes and too few people looks ...

  9. Shinden-zukuri - Wikipedia

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    Wealthier aristocrats built more buildings behind the shinden and tai-no-ya. The room at the core of the shinden is surrounded by a (one ken wide) roofed aisle called hisashi. The moya is one big space partitioned by portable screens (see List of partitions of traditional Japanese architecture).