Keywords
Architecture
General Terms
Longhouse, or row house. A house with a long ridge. Also indicates a house with a number of residences connected under a single ridge-pole. In the Edo period nagaya were built around a warrior's mansion for lower class samurai 侍 to live in. An example, classified as an Important Cultural Property, is the former Asa Mōri 厚狭毛利 clan's Hagi 萩 residence nagaya from Hagi-jō 萩城. When one section was open with a gateway the structure was called a long house gate, nagayamon 長屋門.