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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