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  2. Minka - Wikipedia

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    In 1997, the Japan Minka Reuse and Recycle Association (JMRA) was established to promote the benefits and conservation of minka. One minka that belonged to the Yonezu family was acquired by the JMRA and donated to Kew Gardens as part of the Japan 2001 Festival. The wooden structure was dismantled, shipped and re-assembled in Kew with new walls ...

  3. West Wing - Wikipedia

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    The West Wing ground floor is also the site of a small restaurant operated by the Presidential Food Service and staffed by Naval culinary specialists and called the White House Mess. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] It is located underneath the Oval Office, and was established by President Truman on June 11, 1951.

  4. Shoin-zukuri - Wikipedia

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    Shoin-zukuri (Japanese: 書院造, 'study room architecture') is a style of Japanese architecture developed in the Muromachi, Azuchi–Momoyama and Edo periods that forms the basis of today's traditional-style Japanese houses.

  5. Imanishi Family Residence - Wikipedia

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    Imanishi house from the west side As well as being the minka or machiya of the Imanishi family, it served as the jinya , or centre and court, of Imai, then an autonomous town. Its roof is made in the form of "yatsumune-zukuri" (八棟造), which means "complicated roof style with multiple ridges and bargeboards".

  6. Japanese architecture - Wikipedia

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    In the Umbrella House (1961) he explored the spatial relationship between the doma (earth-paved internal floor) and the raised tatami floor in the living room and sleeping room. This relationship was explored further with the House with an Earthen floor (1963) where a tamped-down earthen floor was included in the kitchen area.

  7. 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.

  8. Nihon Minka-en - Wikipedia

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    Nihon Minka-en (日本民家園) is a park in the Ikuta Ryokuchi Park (生田緑地) of Tama-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. On display in the park is a collection of 20 traditional minka ( 民家 ) (farm houses) from various areas of Japan, especially thatched-roofed houses from eastern Japan.

  9. Nagaya (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    A kitchen of one tatami in area on the left, a floor covered with four tatami and a second door with tiny engawa stoop on the right. Munewari nagaya (back-to-backs) had only a kitchen door. Plan of an Edo nagaya neighbourhood; houses range from 4.5 to 16 tatami in area (visible in full-scale view) Old depiction of a nagaya. Nagaya (長屋, lit.