A look at the traditional farmhouses now commonly called kominka—“old folk dwellings”—a name that underscores their age. They ...

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Old Japanese houses weren’t designed for winter comfort—and it shows. This video walks through daily life in a traditional ...

If you look upward at the exposed roof beams inside the “Japanese Heritage Shōya House”—which is what the Huntington Library in San Marino, Calif., calls this transplanted three-century-old Japanese ...

Machiko Imai inherited a 200-year-old traditional Japanese home from her father when he died in 2020. Together with her son, Matsukane, they restored the property and turned it into a guesthouse. Now, ...

When Matsukane Imai was a child, summer meant escaping the bustle of Tokyo and heading to his family's traditional home in Okaya, a quiet city in Nagano Prefecture, Japan. He remembers those days ...