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azekura 校倉 ✓

A storage facility constructed of logs *azegi 校木, cut in appropriate lengths to…

Architecture, Storehouses
dozō 土蔵

A form of storehouse which provided a fireproof place to keep valuables which were otherwise always at risk in highly…

Architecture, Storehouses
dozō-zukuri 土蔵造

Also referred to as *kura-zukuri 蔵造. A fireproof building construction…

Architecture, Storehouses

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JAANUS is the on-line Dictionary of Japanese Architectural and Art Historical Terminology compiled by Dr. Mary Neighbour Parent.

Originally built by the Atsumi International Scholarship Foundation, it is now hosted and maintained by the Media Center for Art History at Columbia University