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Most traditional Japanese houses have almost no fixed interior walls. Sliding partitions do the dividing, so a single room can change size…
The tree itself is ordinary. A juniper, a Chinese elm or a ficus gets pruned, wired and held in a shallow container…
According to the Statistics Bureau of Japan’s 2013 Housing and Land Survey, the average dwelling in Japan measures 94.42 square meters. That…
Japanese rooms are built mostly from things that once grew. Hinoki, sugi, igusa rush, washi, bamboo, clay and lime plaster, and stone…
A sliding door moves sideways along a track instead of swinging on hinges, so it needs no floor arc and no swing…
A thin wooden lattice covered in translucent washi paper, set in a frame that either slides or stays fixed. That is a…
A Japanese room is sized by counting its floor mats, so a space is described as six mats or eight. The mats…
Most visitors to a Japanese pagoda never get inside, and the ones who do usually find a single dim room at ground…