Morse, Edward Sylvester, 1838-1925 · New York : Harper · leaf 225
s conveni-ent for the vender of fish and vegetables, and for all the kitchentraffic, which too often with us results in the strewing of our 186 JAPANESE HOMES AND THEIR SURROUNDINGS. little grass-plots with the wrapping paper of the butchers bun-dles and other pleasing reminiscences of the days… … Fig. 167. — Kitchen in old Farmhouse at Kabutoyama. In public inns and large country houses, and also in manyof the larger city tea-houses, the customary raised floor is dividedby a narrow area, which has for its floor the hard trodden earth;and this area forms an avenue from the road to the heart…
Architecture, Japanese · Japan -- Social life and customs
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