genkan chuumon 玄関中門
KEY WORD : architecture / folk dwellings
 
A structure with a gable roof *kirizuma-zukuri 切妻造, projecting from the front of the lower, earth-floored end of a main house. Found in traditional farmhouses nouka 農家 in Jouetsu 上越 in SW Niigata prefecture. The ridge of its roof *munagi 棟木 is constructed at right angles to that of the main house.
 
 

 
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