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thumb|The Tōmatsu house from Funairi-chō, Nagoya, is an example of a large . thumb| façade in Kyoto thumb|right|Old fabric shop in Nara, Nara|Nara are traditional wooden townhouses found throughout Japan and typified in the historical capital of Kyoto. ('townhouses') and ('farm dwellings') constitute the two categories of Japanese vernacular architecture known as ('folk dwellings').

Wikidata facts

Subclass of
terrace house
Country
Japan
Country of origin
Japan
Image
Machiya building.jpg
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architectural style
minka
occupant
chōnin
Commons category
Machiya

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Encyclopedic overview

9 sections
Contents
  • {{transliteration|ja|Kyōmachiya}}
  • Design elements
  • Community
  • Destruction
  • Examples
  • See also
  • Notes
  • References
  • External links

thumb|The Tōmatsu house from Funairi-chō, Nagoya, is an example of a large . thumb| façade in Kyoto thumb|right|Old fabric shop in Nara, Nara|Nara are traditional wooden townhouses found throughout Japan and typified in the historical capital of Kyoto. ('townhouses') and ('farm dwellings') constitute the two categories of Japanese vernacular architecture known as ('folk dwellings').

originated as early as the Heian period and continued to develop through to the Edo period and even into the Meiji period. housed urban merchants and craftsmen, a class collectively referred to as ('townspeople').

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “machiya” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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