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  2. Tatami - Wikipedia

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    Alternatively, in terms of traditional Japanese area units, room area (and especially house floor area) is measured in terms of tsubo, where one tsubo is the area of two tatami mats (forming a square); formally 1 by 1 ken or about 3.306 m 2 (35.59 sq ft). Some common room sizes in the Nagoya region are:

  3. Engawa - Wikipedia

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    An engawa (縁側/掾側) or en (縁) is an edging strip of non-tatami-matted flooring in Japanese architecture, usually wood or bamboo. The en may run around the rooms, on the outside of the building, in which case they resemble a porch or sunroom.

  4. Washitsu - Wikipedia

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    This washitsu has tatami flooring and shoji (doors). A traditional washitsu. A washitsu (和室), meaning "Japanese-style room(s)", and frequently called a "tatami room" in English, is a Japanese room with traditional tatami flooring. [1] Washitsu also usually have sliding doors , rather than hinged doors between rooms.

  5. Shoin-zukuri - Wikipedia

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    Characteristics of the shoin-zukuri development were the incorporation of square posts and washitsu floors, i.e. those completely covered with tatami [1]. The style takes its name from the shoin , a term that originally meant a study and a place for lectures on sutras in a temple, but which later came to mean just a drawing room or study.

  6. Nightingale floor - Wikipedia

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    These floors were used in the hallways of some temples and palaces, the most famous example being Nijō Castle, in Kyoto, Japan. Dry boards naturally creak under pressure, but these floors were built in a way that the flooring nails rub against a jacket or clamp, causing chirping noises. It is unclear if the design was initially intentional.

  7. Genkan - Wikipedia

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    Traditional genkan in the early 20th century. The custom of removing one's shoes before entering the house is believed to go back over one thousand years to the pre-historical era of elevated-floor structures. It has continued to the present, even after the Westernization of the Japanese home, which began in the Meiji period (1868–1912). [4]

  8. 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]

  9. Tsubo-niwa - Wikipedia

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    They are traditional locations for temizu (handwashing). They also provide light and ventilation. They also provide light and ventilation. As the floorboards in a traditional Japanese building are usually raised above the ground, a niwa is an area without the wooden flooring; the floorboards surrounding a garden may form a veranda called an ...

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