Morse, Edward Sylvester, 1838-1925 · New York : Harper · leaf 93
n prevail. Tliis feature is particularly commonin the Island of Yezo. Fig. 39 gives a house of this description near Matsushima, inRikuzen. An opening for the egress of smoke occurs on theside of the roof, in shape not unlike that of a round-toppeddormer window. This opening in almost every… … Fig. 40. — Country Inn in Rikuzen. the shape of an angular roof, with its ridge running at rightangles to the main ridge ; in this is a latticed window. Thisventilator, as well as the main roof, is heavily thatched, whilethe supplementary ridge is of boards and weighted with stones.A good example…
Architecture, Japanese
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