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Chabudai in a traditional setting In use, circa 1900. A chabudai (卓袱台 or 茶袱台 or 茶部台) is a short-legged table used in traditional Japanese homes. The original models ranged in height from 15 cm (5.9 in) to 30 cm (12 in). [1] People seated at a chabudai may sit on zabuton or tatami rather than on chairs. The four legs are ...
A garden building is a structure built in a garden or backyard. Such structures include: cabanas; follies; garden offices; gazeboes; gloriette; greenhouses; grillkota;
During 1961, Lagutenko's institute released the K-7 design of a prefabricated 5-story building that became typical of the khrushchevka. 64,000 units (3,000,000 m 2 or 32,000,000 sq ft) of this type were built in Moscow from 1961 to 1968. The khrushchevkas were cheap, and sometimes an entire building could be constructed within two weeks.
During the Edo period, merchants began building small gardens in the space between their shops – which faced the street – and their residences, located behind the shop. These tiny gardens were meant to be seen, but not entered, and usually featured a stone lantern, a water basin, stepping stones and a few plants, arranged in the cha-niwa ...
It has a tsumairi (also called tsumairi-zukuri) (妻入・妻入造) structure, that is, the building has its main entrance on the gabled side. [ 3 ] The roof is gabled ( kirizuma yane ( 切妻屋根 , gabled roof ) ), decorated with purely ornamental poles called chigi (vertical) or katsuogi (horizontal), and covered with cypress bark.
An example of mutesaki tokyō using six brackets. Tokyō (斗栱・斗拱, more often 斗きょう) [note 1] (also called kumimono (組物) or masugumi (斗組)) is a system of supporting blocks (斗 or 大斗, masu or daito, lit. block or big block) and brackets (肘木, hijiki, lit. elbow wood) supporting the eaves of a Japanese building, usually part of a Buddhist temple or Shinto shrine. [1]
Bargeboard chigi at Ise Shrine. Chigi may be built directly into the roof as part of the structure, or simply attached and crossed over the gable as an ornament. The former method is believed to closer resemble its original design, and is still used in older building methods such as shinmei-zukuri, kasuga-zukuri, and taisha-zukuri.
The bandstand tower erected for Bon Festival is often called a yagura, as are similar structures used in other festivals. [3] Yagura-daiko ( taiko drumming from atop a yagura ) is a traditional part of professional sumo competitions.