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  2. Minka - Wikipedia

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    Minka (Japanese: 民家, lit. "folk houses") are vernacular houses constructed in any one of several traditional Japanese building styles. In the context of the four divisions of society, Minka were the dwellings of farmers, artisans, and merchants (i.e., the three non-samurai castes). [1]

  3. Japanese-Western Eclectic Architecture - Wikipedia

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    Wajiro reviewed 588 houses built in 1921 near Asagaya Station and categorised them as Japanese Style, Culture Style, and Japanese Western Style respectively. [3] In Kon's original thesis, the single criterion that needed to be met for classifying a house as Japanese Western Eclectic Architecture was the inclusion of a Western style Visitor's ...

  4. 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]

  5. Imperial Crown Style - Wikipedia

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    Early Modern Japanese architecture The Imperial Crown Style ( 帝冠様式 , teikan yōshiki ) of Japanese architecture developed during the Japanese Empire in the early twentieth century. The style is identified by Japanese-style roofing on top of Neoclassical styled buildings; [ 1 ] and can have a centrally elevated structure with a pyramidal ...

  6. Washitsu - Wikipedia

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    Traditionally, most rooms in a Japanese dwelling were in washitsu style. However, many modern Japanese houses have only one washitsu, which is sometimes used for entertaining guests, and most other rooms are Western-style. Many new construction Japanese apartments have no washitsu at all, instead using linoleum or hardwood floors.

  7. Housing in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Hearth in a traditional Japanese house in Honshū A modern kerosene space heater. Space heating rather than central heating is normal in Japanese homes. Kerosene, gas, and electric units are common. Apartments are often rented without heating or cooling equipment but with empty duct space run, allowing the installation of heat pump units.

  8. Shoin-zukuri - Wikipedia

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    Shoin-zukuri (Japanese: 書院造, 'study room architecture') is a style of Japanese architecture developed in the Muromachi, Azuchi–Momoyama and Edo periods that forms the basis of today's traditional-style Japanese houses.

  9. Jutaku - Wikipedia

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    Jutaku houses and buildings often feature contorted geometries and daring structural engineering, or awkward site configurations. [5] [4] According to the Japanese architect Yasuhiro Yamashita, a Jutaku house is awkward, built towards the sky, nature-sensitive, personalized, monochrome, built with reflective materials and hidden storage areas. [6]