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Architecture
Folk Dwellings
Lit. naked or bare yard. A term for the earth-floored area, *doma 土間, in farmhouses, nōka 農家, of the Edo period in Aomori Prefecture. In this region, a low timber platform called *itaniwa 板庭 is constructed in one part of the doma, and the term hadakaniwa is used to denote the remaining unfloored area.