The Murakami Family house is a four-story wooden house with six rooms built in 1578.
The smoke from the irori (open hearth) soaked into the pillars of the Gassho-Style houses and helped to increase the strength of the pillars and acted as a fumigate for insects.
Me and Shimoda-san.
Bin zasara (a.k.a., bin sasara, sasara), a traditional Japanese percussion instrument. The instrument consists of 108 wooden plates linked by a cotton cord. In Buddhism, 108 is the number of evil passions/earthly temptation/worldly desires (bonnou).
Boxes for making tofu.
The 2nd and 3rd floors were used for the rearing of silkworms; the ceilings captured the heat from the irori (open hearth) on the 1st floor.
Ceiling.
Baby holding basket.
Me, Shimoda-san, and Usui-san.
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