hon'ya 本屋
KEY WORD : architecture / general terms
 
Also written 本家, or read omoya 主屋.

1 The main part of a house.

2 The core of a building. Has the same meaning as *moya 母屋.

3 According to some scholars, it meant the ancestral home of each generation of a family, usually passed on to the eldest son.
 
 

 
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