Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Yoko Sugimura (Japanese: 杉村 陽子 Sugimura Yoko, born November 1, 1974, in Nagano, Japan) is a former Japanese gravure idol and race queen. Yoko Sugimura began her modeling career as a race queen for Kure in 1997, where she teamed up with Fumika Suzuki. As with Fumika Suzuki, the race queen modeling gave her career a good start.
In the Azuchi-Momoyama period not only sukiya style but the contrasting shoin-zukuri (書院造) of residences of the warrior class developed. While sukiya was a small space, simple and austere, shoin-zukuri style was that of large, magnificent reception areas, the setting for the pomp and ceremony of the feudal lords.
Since the shinden-zukuri-style house flourished during the Heian period, houses tended to be furnished and adorned with characteristic art of the era. In front of the moya across the courtyard is a garden with a pond. Water runs from a stream (yarimizu 遣水) into a large pond to the south of the courtyard.
The interior of a minka was generally divided into two sections: a floor of compacted earth, called a doma (the precursor to a Genkan) and a raised floor (generally around 20 inches (50 cm) above the level of the doma), called a hiroma , and, in larger, richer houses, an area or set of rooms covered in tatami or mushiro mats, called a zashiki ...
A nagaya was a long housing complex under the same ridge, one or two stories high, divided into small compartments for rent. The well, toilet and waste facilities were shared. Except for a bedroom, each household only had a kitchen. [1] Historically, similar houses were built around a rich manor or castle for low-ranking samurai.
model cities Los Angeles could learn from cities like Kobe, Japan, decimated by a 1995 earthquake, where officials imposed a two-month building moratorium, said Columbia University's Jeffrey ...
Courtiers around a tsubo-niwa, illustration from The Tale of Genji, Heian period (c. 1130). Tsubo-niwa were originally found in the interior courtyards of Heian period palaces, designed to give a glimpse of nature and some privacy to the residents of the rear side of the building.
The 4x4 house plan was built in the aftermath of the Great Hanshin earthquake. The architecture magazine Brutus invited its readers to submit development ideas to a selection of architects. The latter picked this sea-front site idea. [1] The redevelopment project was comprised or narrow and chaotic strips of lands. The house was built in 2003. [2]