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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. 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.

  4. Japanese maps - Wikipedia

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    Japan sea map. The earliest known term used for maps in Japan is believed to be kata (形, roughly "form"), which was probably in use until roughly the 8th century.During the Nara period, the term zu (図) came into use, but the term most widely used and associated with maps in pre-modern Japan is ezu (絵図, roughly "picture diagram").

  5. Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings - Wikipedia

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    It was first published in 1886 after its author had spent three years in Japan studying and teaching zoology. It contains numerous drawings by Morse of various features of Japanese houses, including details of construction, a description of carpenter's tools, and a section on bonsai and flower arrangement.

  6. 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 (farm houses) from various areas of Japan, especially thatched-roofed houses from eastern Japan. Of these, nine have received the designation of ...

  7. Gokayama - Wikipedia

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    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]

  8. List of Important Cultural Properties of Japan (Kamakura ...

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    Former Jūrin-in Treasure House 旧十輪院宝蔵 Kyū-Jūrinin hōzō: 1185-1274: Taitō: Tokyo: relocated from Nara to the Tokyo National Museum: Gorintō 五輪塔 Gorintō: 1244: Zushi: Kanagawa: property of Tōshō-ji (東昌寺

  9. Map of Japan (Kanazawa Bunko) - Wikipedia

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    A map of Japan currently stored at Kanazawa Bunko depicts Japan and surrounding countries, both real and imaginary. The date of creation is unknown but probably falls within the Kamakura period . It is one of the oldest surviving Gyōki-type maps of Japan.

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