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Ogimachi is located in Shirakawa-go, while Ainokura and Suganuma are in Gokayama. [4] In total, the area inscribed as a world heritage site for these three villages is 68 hectares (0.68 km 2). However, each village area is protected within a buffer zone (Buffer Zone I) in which strict regulation preserves the historic environment.
Ainokura hamlet (相倉集落, Ainokura shuraku), in the Gokayama region, was inscribed on the World Heritage List in December 1995 as one of the three villages of gassho-style houses. [6] Ainokura has 20 gassho-style houses known as minka. [7] Most of them are 100 to 200 years old, and the oldest is said to have been built some 400 years ago. [2]
Of particular note is the gasshō-zukuri (合掌造り, literally "clasped-hands" style), which is preserved in two villages in central Japan — Shirakawa in Gifu Prefecture and Gokayama in Toyama Prefecture — that together have been designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. [36]
Saeki also estimates that the "Gassho Guesthouse Kazura," formerly the residence of the Sakai family in Inotani Village and now moved to Sakuraga-ike, was built in the same period. [ 6 ] The Murakamike Residence was originally owned by the Yamazaki family, but after the Yamazaki family moved to Hokkaido at the end of the Edo period, the ...
Shirakawa-go 白川村 from above. Shirakawa-go 白川村 in winter Gasshō-zukuri - traditionally thatched houses in Shirakawa-go. Shirakawa (白川村, Shirakawa-mura, lit. ' White River Village ') is a village located in Ōno District, Gifu Prefecture, Japan.
A village (村, mura) [a] is a local administrative unit in Japan. [1] It is a local public body along with prefecture (県, ken, or other equivalents), city (市, shi), and town (町, chō, sometimes machi). Geographically, a village's extent is contained within a prefecture.
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Groups of Traditional Buildings (伝統的建造物群, Dentōteki Kenzōbutsu-gun) is a Japanese category of historic preservation introduced by a 1975 amendment of the law which mandates the protection of groups of traditional buildings which, together with their environment, form a beautiful scene.