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Plaster applied over a lattice of wood or bamboo in a half-timbered wall. Usually multi-layer. Plastered walls were frequently papered to protect clothes. Also used in fireproof kuro. Both mud plaster (often with straw) [22] and lime plaster with fibers and funori glue (shikkui, often used as a topcoat and on floors). [23]
Wagoya type traditional roof framing, a post-and-lintel type of framing. Yogoya type traditional roof framing, called western style. Japanese carpentry was developed more than a millennium ago that is known for its ability to create everything from temples to houses to tea houses to furniture by wood with the use of few nails.
Shoji are used in both traditional-style Japanese houses and in Western-style housing, especially in the washitsu (traditional Japanese-style room). [8] [13] The traditional wood-and-paper construction is highly flammable. [14]
Tatami mats are rice straw floor mats often used to cover the floor in Japan's interiors; in modern Japanese houses there are usually only one or two tatami rooms. Another way to connect rooms in Japan's interiors is through sliding panels made of wood and paper, like the shōji screens, or cloth.
Traditional houses in Naoshima, Kagawa clad with yakisugi panels Close-up view of charred yakisugi board Yakisugi treated wood used in a box for sunglasses. Yakisugi (Japanese: 焼 杉, lit. ' burnt Japanese cedar ' [1]) is a traditional, very old Japanese method of wood preservation.
The solid wood amado leaning up against the corner is a storm shutter, and is usually stored away. 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 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.
Rōka and outside of the house are either partitioned by walls or portable wooden boards that are used to seal the house at night. Extended roofs protect the rōka from getting wet when it rains, except during typhoon season where the house gets sealed completely. Roofs of traditional houses in Japan are made of wood and clay, with tiles or ...