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nurigome 塗篭

1 A sleeping space used by the master and mistress of the house, enclosed with solid plaster walls, usually…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Folk Dwellings
zashiki 座敷 ✓

A generic term for a room covered with straw mats *tatami 畳. In the Heian…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings

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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