yagurakemudashi 櫓煙出
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Also written 櫓烟出. Also read yagurakemuridashi. An opening constructed in a thatched roof to allow the escape of smoke from the cooking hearth *irori 囲炉裏 in a farmhouse nouka 農家. The roof above the opening is raised and the sides are fitted with downward slanting slats through which the smoke is dispersed. Sometimes it serves as ventilation.
The kitchen *kuri 庫裡 at a Zen temple has the same type of smoke-escape device. For example, at Zuiganji Kuri 瑞巌寺庫裡 (1609), Miyagi prefecture.
 
Zuiganji Kuri 瑞巌寺庫裡 (Miyagi)
Zuiganji Kuri 瑞巌寺庫裡 (Miyagi)

 
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