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ARCHITECTURE:
TRADITIONAL AND MODERN

RURAL FARMHOUSES

Japan Information Network's Japan Atlas: Architecture provides details about traditional gassho style buildings, a form of rural architecture common in Shirakawago and Gokayama.

rural farmhouse, Takayama (Japanese Architecture)The Chiiori Project web site features information about attempts to preserve and restore a rural farmhouse deep in the remote mountains of Tokushima Prefecture.

 

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