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Old japanese house roof.
Rusted nails and fasteners recovered from the deconstruction of a 60 year old thatched tea house.
The wooden floor of a traditional japanese house is covered with rectangular tatami mats which are made from straw but with a top layer of woven grass.
Anne kohtz a joint in a renovated edo period farmhouse.
In days gone by it was sometimes sealed off by the aforementioned heavy storm shutters.
This is called an engawa and is like an outdoor corridor.
Sliding doors fusuma were used in place of walls allowing the internal configuration of a space to be customized for different occasions.
Older japanese houses tend to have a raised wooden veranda that runs around the outside edge of the house.
Old japanese house with thatched roof tokyo japan.
Although not exactly standardised across japan in terms of size the number of tatami mats it was possible to lay out in a single room became a common way to measure floor space.
Photo about an old japanese house with the thatched roof.
Tatami date back to the heian period 794 1185 ce and both the thickness and the pattern of the weaving of tatami mats was an indicator of status in medieval japan.