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English: In shrine and temple buildings, the gable boards of the gables covering slanting pieces of wood on the Tsuma sides are extended and protrude from the roof, and the protruding portions are called Chigi.
Japanese: 神社建築においては、妻部分の斜め材を囲う破風（はふ）部分の破風板が延長して千木（ちぎ）と呼ぶ斜め材が突出する。
English: It is popularly said that, if the tops of chigi of a shrine are cut horizontally, a female god is enshrined there, and if they are cut vertically, a male god is enshrined there.
Japanese: 千木の最端部が水平に切断されているものは女神、鉛直に切断されているものは男神を祀ると言う俗説がある。
English: Later, a small fire-preventive wall was placed between gabled roofs of adjacent houses so that the wall protruded between the first floor roof and the second floor roof, and this wall became to be called udatsu.
Japanese: そののち、切妻屋根の隣家との間についた小さい防火壁で、1階屋根と2階屋根の間に張り出すように設けられているものも「うだつ」と呼ぶようになる。
English: Originally, udatsu were built as a wall to prevent a fire spreading to adjacent houses when a row of machiya (a traditional form of townhouse found mainly in Kyoto) houses were built with little space between adjacent houses.
Japanese: 本来、町屋が隣り合い連続して建てられている場合に、隣家からの火事が燃え移るのを防ぐための防火壁として造られたものだった。
English: Mainly in the Kansai region, merchants competed with each other to attach splendid udatsu to their houses as an indication of their financial power.
Japanese: 自分の財力をアピールする為の指標として関西地方を中心に商家の屋根上には互いに競って立派な卯建がつけられた。
English: Installing udatsu was very expensive, therefore, many of the houses with udatsu were those of relatively wealthy people.
Japanese: 設置するにはそれなりに費用も要し、比較的裕福な家に設けられることが多かった。
English: The idiomatic expression of Udatsu-ga-agaranai originated from such a situation.
Japanese: そのことから、慣用句として使われるうだつがあがらないの語源となっている。
English: Udatsu-ga-agaranai refers to a condition where no good result are being obtained, in work for example, with no future prospects.
Japanese: うだつがあがらないとは、仕事などで成果が出ず、先の見込みがない状態を言う。
English: Parts of Waki-machi, Mima City, Tokushima Prefecture and Mino City, Gifu Prefecture are trying to preserve udatsu as their regional symbol.
Japanese: 徳島県美馬市脇町や岐阜県美濃市など一部の地域では、うだつを地域の象徴的な存在として保存に努めている。
English: When the station building of Aoyagi Station of the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) in Nagano Prefecture was renovated in 2002,it featured a design based on udatsu.
Japanese: また、長野県の東日本旅客鉄道青柳駅では、2002年の駅舎改築で、うだつをデザインした駅舎が建設された。
English: Until recently, most Japanese houses had been one-story or two-story wooden buildings (using the wood frame-based building method or traditional building method) centered on tatami mat-using rooms (Washitsu (Japanese-style rooms)).
Japanese: 日本の住宅は近年までほとんどが木造建築（木造軸組構法、在来工法）の平屋か2階建で、畳のある部屋（和室）を中心に造られてきた。
English: After WWII, and in particular since the high-growth period, Japanese lifestyles and house-building methods have changed rapidly, altering the styles of the houses drastically as well.
Japanese: 第二次世界大戦後、特に高度成長期以降は、生活スタイルや工法の急激な変化に伴い、住宅も大きく変貌している。
English: Concerning the building methods, reinforced concrete structures or steel-framed structures have been used for building more and more condominiums (middle/high-rise or super high-rise buildings), and even for low-rise detached houses, use of reinforced concrete structures or prefabricated building methods has increased.
Japanese: 工法として、集合住宅（中高層・超高層）では鉄筋コンクリート造・鉄骨造のもの、低層の戸建住宅でも鉄筋コンクリート造やプレハブ工法等のものが多くなっている。
English: In this article, traditional Japanese-style houses (Wa-fu houses) are mainly described, taking into account comparisons with western-style houses that have been popular nowadays.
Japanese: 本項では、今日一般的になっている洋風の住宅との比較を念頭に、日本の伝統的な住宅（和風住宅）を中心に記述する。
English: The style of samurai houses in the Kamakura period is sometimes called Buke-zukuri style (Samurai house style), but nowadays the style is considered to be a simplified version of the Shinden-zukuri style.
Japanese: 鎌倉時代の武士の住まいは武家造と呼ばれることもあるが、今日では寝殿造を簡略化したものと考えられている。
English: However, the residence of Yoshimasa ASHIKAGA in the period of the Higashi-yama (east mountain) culture (around Onin War) was built in the so-called early shoin-zukuri style.
Japanese: しかしながら、いわゆる東山文化の時代（応仁の乱前後）の足利義政の邸宅になると、初期書院造と呼ばれるものになる。
English: In such a house, tatami mats were laid all over a room, shoji-to (sliding paper doors) were used, and Zashikikazari (a set of decorative features), such as tokonoma (alcove in a traditional Japanese room where art or flowers are displayed) were introduced.
Japanese: 畳を敷き詰め、障子戸を用い、床の間などの座敷飾りが造られるようになった。
English: The Shoin-zukuri style was established for clarifying the social status orders of persons and for showing dignity of the person in authority in Azuchi-jo Castle built by Nobunaga or Osaka-jo Castle built by Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI.
Japanese: 信長の安土城や、豊臣秀吉の大坂城などにおいて身分の序列を著し権力者の威厳を示すため、書院造が完成した。
English: Vassals were ordered to live in castle towns, and it is supposed, for example, from Rakuchu Rakugaizu Byobu (urban areas and suburbs of Kyoto, a folding screen) by Eitoku KANO, that buildings in urban areas (such as Machiya (traditional townhouses found mainly in Kyoto) and samurai residences) had progressed as well.
Japanese: 家臣は城下町に住むよう命じられ、狩野永徳の洛中洛外図屏風などから、都市建築（町屋、武家屋敷など）も発達してきたことが伺える。
English: The Shoin-zukuri style was established for residences for persons in high classes, and during the Edo period and later, houses also came to be built in the Sukiya-zukuri style where factors of tea rooms were introduced (Sukiya-type Shoin-zukuri style).
Japanese: 上層の住まいとして書院造が定着し、江戸時代以降、茶室の要素を採り入れたいわゆる数寄屋造り（数寄屋風書院）の住宅も造られるようになった。
English: According to the depictions, it is supposed that the houses of common people were quite simple; for example, one-story and having a shingle roof (a roof made with many layered small wooden plates).
Japanese: しかしながら、それを見ると、平屋建、板葺き屋根など非常に簡素なものだったことが伺える。
English: Roughly speaking, the quality of such houses was higher in the Kansai area, and their structure and building methods had gradually affected those in the Kanto area as well.
Japanese: 大まかに言えば、関西の住宅の方が質が高く、構造や工法が次第に関東にも影響を与えていった。
English: In the Kanto area in the early modern period, ordinary dwellings of farmers were mostly built in such a way that an irori fireplace (open hearth) was made on doma (dirt floor) and straw mats were laid on the floors.
Japanese: 近世初期の関東で一般的な農民の住まいは、土間に囲炉裏を作り、床にむしろなどを敷くようなものも多かった。
English: Having changed little since the ancient times and the early feudal period, these houses were built with hottate bashira (an earthfast post) and using thatch for the roof and walls.
Japanese: 工法も古代・中世と余り変わらず、掘立柱を立て、茅葺で屋根や壁を葺くようなものであった。
English: Corresponding to economic advancement, the quality of these houses had been improved gradually: Dirt floors came to be used only for kitchens and workspaces, and raised floors were built for rooms for eating food and for sleeping.
Japanese: 経済的に向上するに従って、住宅の質も次第に上がり、土間を台所や作業場などに使い、床を造り食事や就寝に使う部屋が造られていった。
English: As craftsmen with a high level of skill became engaged in building such houses, houses became built in the way that pillars were placed on foundation stones and beams were assembled in complex ways.
Japanese: 高い技能を持った職人が関与するようになり、工法も礎石の上に柱を据え、梁(建築)を複雑に組み合わせて造るように変わった。
English: However, mud walls and thatched roofs were often made in cooperation with family members and persons in the community.
Japanese: ただし、土壁や茅葺屋根は家族や集落の仲間と共同で造ることも多かった。
English: This layout was adopted in consideration of using the house for events with many participants, such as wedding ceremonies and funeral ceremonies.
Japanese: この間取りは結婚や葬儀など人が多く集まる行事に使うことを意識したものである。
English: Today, many traditional private houses maintained in, for example, minka-en (a place where traditional private houses are exhibited), are provided with a floor layout having the shape of the Chinese character 田.
Japanese: 今日、伝統的な民家として民家園などに保存されているものには、「田の字型」のタイプが多く見られる。
English: For example, samurai and farmers in the nanushi (village headman) class were permitted to provide tokonoma (alcove in a traditional Japanese room where art or flowers are displayed), but the common people were generally prohibited from providing tokonoma and tiled roofs, because they were too extravagant for the common people.
Japanese: 例えば武士や名主クラスの農家では、床の間などを造ることが許されたが、庶民が床の間を造ることや瓦葺屋根にすることなどは贅沢だとして禁止されることが一般的だった。
English: (However, in some towns, provision of tiled roofs was promoted or obligatory, for fire prevention.)
Japanese: （ただし、防火のため瓦葺屋根を奨励されたり、義務付けられた町もある）
English: Entering the Meiji period, feudalistic restrictions on building houses were removed and it became possible to build houses depending on funds available.
Japanese: 明治時代になると建築に関する封建的な規制もなくなり、資力に応じて住宅を造るようになった。
English: Affected by technologies in European architecture, carpenters' tools had been improved and craftsmen had interacted with each other actively, improving the quality of buildings as a whole.
Japanese: 西洋建築の技術にも刺激され、大工道具の質も上がり、職人の交流も活発になったことなどで、建築の質は全体に向上していった。
English: In the Meiji period, only a small number of persons in limited social classes, such as politicians and successful businessmen, lived in western style houses, and most people lived in traditional Japanese style houses.
Japanese: 明治時代に洋風の住宅（西洋館）に住むのは、政治家、実業家などごく限られた階層の一部の者であり、ほとんどは和風住宅であった。
English: In the Taisho period and later, salaried men and intellectuals in urban areas longed for western style lives, and new style houses which partially adopted western elements came to be built in suburbs.
Japanese: 大正時代以降、サラリーマン、都市知識人らが洋風の生活に憧れ、一部洋風を採り入れた和洋折衷の文化住宅が都市郊外に多く造られるようになった。
English: However, the lifestyle in which shoes are taken off within houses and people relax on tatami mats has remained almost unchanged.
Japanese: しかし、家の中では靴を脱ぎ、畳でくつろぐといった生活スタイル自体はほとんど変わらなかった。
English: During the housing shortage after WWII, mass-production-type houses were built, such as those in apartment buildings constructed by Housing Corporations.
Japanese: 第二次世界大戦後、住宅難の中で公団住宅など、大量供給型の住宅が造られた。
English: However, nowadays, as western style houses have been built widely, those with tokonoma as well as Japanese style rooms have decreased.
Japanese: しかし、今日では洋風の住まいが普及し、新築の家は、和室と共に床の間のある例も減少してきている。
English: In the past, many houses, such as farmers' houses and Machiya houses, were place where persons lived and worked for earning their living.
Japanese: また、かつての住宅は農家でも町屋でも、生業と結びついた職住一致のものが多かった。
English: Houses in Japan include detached houses, condominiums (so-called Mansions, apartments, Danchi (apartment complexes) and Kodanjutaku (apartment buildings constructed by a Housing Corporation)), Nagaya (rowhouses), and Bunka-jutaku (new style houses).
Japanese: 日本の住宅の種類には一戸建て、集合住宅（マンション、アパート、団地、公団住宅）、長屋、文化住宅などがある。
English: According to time-honored custom, the terms merchants' houses, Machiya houses, and farmers' houses are also used, depending on the place where the houses are located or the jobs of the persons who live in the houses.
Japanese: 古くからの習慣で、住居が建っている場所や住人の職業などで区別して商家、町家、農家などとも言う。
English: Rooms (bedrooms, Tokonoma, living room, bath room, kitchen, lavatory, underground room)
Japanese: 部屋（寝室、床の間、居間・リビング、浴室・バスルーム、台所、便所・便所、地下室）
English: Storage spaces (Oshiire (a space mainly storing futon, with sliding doors), Nando (a room for storing furniture and/or clothes), Kura (a warehouse), Monooki (a house for storing tools), closets, and/or walk-in closets)
Japanese: 収納スペース（押入れ、納戸、蔵・倉、物置、クローゼット、ウォークイン・クローゼット）
English: In Taiwan, Korea, and Sakhalin, where Japan once ruled, Japanese-style houses still remain even today.
Japanese: 日本統治時代を経験した日本統治時代(台湾)、日本統治時代の朝鮮、樺太といった地域では、現在でも日本家屋が現存している
English: The Japanese term "Seiyo-kan" is used to describe western-style buildings that were built in Japan from the end of the Edo period and the Meiji period onwards.
Japanese: 西洋館（せいようかん）とは、幕末、明治時代以降に日本で建設された西洋の建築様式を用いた建物のこと。
English: In Kobe, seiyo-kan buildings that were built in the Meiji period are called ijin-kan buildings (former residences of early foreign settlers), while those that were built during the Taisho period and during the Showa period prior to the start of the Second World War are called yo-kan buildings.
Japanese: 神戸では明治期のものを異人館、大正～昭和戦前にかけてのものを洋館と呼んで区別している。
English: In the foreign settlements at Nagasaki, Yokohama and Kobe, private houses (ijin-kan buildings), office buildings, schools and churches for foreigners were built, generating street landscapes different from traditional Japan.
Japanese: 長崎、横浜、神戸など外国人の外国人居留地には、外国人の住宅（異人館）、事務所、学校、教会などが建設され、従来の日本とは異質な街並みが生まれた。
English: Some of them were built by foreign engineers who came to Japan, but there are others that were built by Japanese craftsmen based on designs taught by foreign engineers.
Japanese: これらは外国から技師・技術者が来て建設したものもあるが、日本人の職人にデザインなどを指示して建設したものもある。
English: Japanese master carpenters were stimulated by buildings in foreign settlements and they built office buildings, hotels and schools mimicking the western-style design.
Japanese: 居留地建築に刺激を受けた日本の大工棟梁は、見よう見まねで西洋のデザインを採り入れた事務所、ホテル、学校などを建設した。
English: The western-style buildings that Japanese craftsmen built based on their traditional techniques are called Gi-yofu-kenchiku (literally, "quasi-western-style buildings").
Japanese: 伝統的な職人の技術をベースに洋風要素を採り入れたこれらのものを擬洋風建築と呼ぶ。
English: Josiah CONDOR, an employed foreigner, was the first to provide serious and systematic architecture education to Japan and trained Japanese building architects, such as Kingo TATSUNO.
Japanese: お雇い外国人ジョサイア・コンドルが日本人にはじめて本格的・体系的な建築教育を行い、辰野金吾らの日本人建築家を育成した。
English: Architects who received formal education took the lead in building seiyo-kan buildings for government/agency offices and houses employing European building styles (strictly speaking, large-scale buildings, such as Tokyo Station, are not seiyo-kan buildings, but architecture guide books sometimes use the term more broadly).
Japanese: 正規の教育を受けた建築家が中心になり、ヨーロッパの建築様式を採りいれ、官庁や事務所、住宅などの西洋館が建設されるようになった（東京駅など規模の大きなものは西洋館とは呼びにくいが、建築ガイド本などで総称して含める場合もある）。
English: Stimulated by the seiyo-kan buildings described above, seiyo-kan buildings began to be built by local craftsmen in various regions.
Japanese: 上記のような西洋館に刺激されて、次第に各地域でも地元の職人による西洋館が建てられるようになった。
English: Some politicians and businessmen built seiyo-kan buildings to willingly incorporate Western lifestyle.
Japanese: 一部の政治家や実業家などで、進んで西洋風の生活スタイルを採り入れるために西洋館を建設したものもいる。
English: However, the structure of seiyo-kan buildings with its high ceilings and closed spaces was not suitable for the Japanese climate in which temperatures fluctuate considerably throughout the four seasons with frequent rains and high humidity.
Japanese: 天井が高く、開放性が低い西洋館の造りは四季の気温の変化が大きく多雨多湿の日本の風土とは必ずしも適合しない面があった。
English: In an age when traditional Japanese houses were the majority, seiyo-kan buildings had an exotic image and mysterious atmosphere, and were frequently used as a setting for detective stories.
Japanese: 伝統的な和風住宅が圧倒的な時代に造られた西洋館には、エキゾチックなイメージと怪しげな雰囲気が醸し出され、しばしば探偵小説などの舞台になった。
English: Lifestyle and housing style changed drastically from the pre-war era to the post-war era of the Showa period.
Japanese: 昭和の戦前期から戦後にかけて、生活スタイルは急激に変化し、住宅の形式も大きく変わった。
English: Although housing has been influenced by modernist architecture that deny past building styles, houses that have been designed to suit the Japanese climate have come to be more favored than traditional Japanese style houses.
Japanese: 過去の様式を否定するモダニズム建築の影響も受けながら、日本の風土に合わせて工夫された住宅が、伝統的な和風住宅よりも優勢になってきた。
English: Things in Japan have become increasingly Westernized now and houses lacking tokonoma (the alcove in a traditional Japanese room where art or flowers are displayed) and a Japanese-style tatami room would not be called seiyo-kan buildings anymore.
Japanese: 欧米化が普及した今日、床の間や和室のない住宅であっても、西洋館と呼ぶことはない。
English: It is thought that the term seiyo-kan was used because these Western-style buildings were built at a time when Japanese-style buildings dominated.
Japanese: 和風住宅が一般的であった時代にあえて洋風の住まいを建てたからこそ、西洋館という呼び方をしたのだと考えられる。
English: Alternatively, it's a building divided horizontally into a number of areas, with each such area being used as a dwelling unit.
Japanese: あるいは（同じことだが）1棟の建物を水平方向に区分し、それぞれ独立した住戸とした物。
English: An essential condition for a nagaya is that the entrance to each dwelling unit must connect directly to an external path, and this entrance must not be shared with those to the other dwelling units.
Japanese: 長屋の条件として必ず求められることは、各戸の玄関が直接接道など外界に接しており、その玄関を他の住戸と共有していてはならないことである。
English: Semi-detached houses are often seen in Europe, such as in England.
Japanese: イギリスなどヨーロッパによく見られるタイプでセミデタッチト・ハウス（semi-detachedhouse）がある。
English: A building (generally of two-story configuration) is divided into two parts at the midpoint, and one of the walls of each of the two parts, as in a row house, is shared by adjoining dwellings, thus economizing on land usage and the cost of construction.
Japanese: 1棟の建物（多くは2階建て）を中央で区分し、2軒の家が壁の一方向を共有する形式で、敷地や建設費を節約できる。
English: A building where an entrance is shared with more than one dwelling unit is differentiated from a nagaya (it's called an apartment, boarding house or dormitory).
Japanese: 玄関を共有し、内部が複数の住戸に区分されている場合は、長屋とは区別される（アパートや下宿屋、寮のタイプ）。
English: A building of two or more stories in which dwelling units are also divided vertically is further differentiated as an apato (in Japanese pronunciation; actually, an apartment) or a mansion (in Japanese usage; in fact, a condominium).
Japanese: 2階建て以上で垂直方向にも区分したものは、アパート、マンションなどと呼ばれ、区別される。
English: The term nagaya normally calls into mind a wooden residential building built along a narrow street of a shitamachi (the traditional shopping, entertainment and residential district).
Japanese: 長屋という言葉で一般にイメージされるのは、下町の狭い路地に面して建てられた木造の住宅であろう。
English: In castles, a nagaya called the Tamon-yagura (turret) was built on a mound and was used as ordinary residential houses while effectively serving as a point of defense.
Japanese: 城郭においては、多門櫓と称す長屋を塁上に造り、防衛の建物として威力を発揮しながら一般の住宅としても活躍していた。
English: In particular, the dwelling facility for the goten jochu (palace maids) was called the Nagatsubone (attendants' quarters), and the one in the inner palace of Edo Castle was a two-story, 80-meter-long building in which a lavatory and kitchen were provided for each of the dwelling units.
Japanese: とくに御殿女中の居住施設は長局とよばれ、江戸城大奥では、戸別にトイレ・キッチン付二階建てで全長80mもあった。
English: In the Edo period, merchants of the middle class or higher had their stores facing main streets, but most of the other merchants and craftsmen rented dwellings in nagaya located along the back streets.
Japanese: 江戸時代において、中層以上の商家などは表通りに独立した店を構えていたが、それ以外の町人、職人などはほとんどが裏町の長屋に借家住まいであった。
English: Although they lived in a densely populated condition, people seemed to have lived in an atmosphere of warmth and hospitality.
Japanese: 密集した中で生活していたが、人情こまやかな生活を送っていた場合もみられる。
English: Most of the nagaya during the Edo period were one-story buildings in which there was a kitchen immediately following an entrance, with just two rooms at the most.
Japanese: 江戸時代の長屋はほとんど平屋建てで、玄関を入るとすぐ台所であり、部屋はせいぜい2部屋程度である。
English: A lavatory to be shared was found in a nearby alley, but no bath was provided (the provision of a bath was prohibited due to the possibility that a fire might erupt and cause a disaster).
Japanese: 路地に共同トイレがあり、風呂は無い（火事の危険性が高く、防災上の理由で禁止されていた。
English: However, they weren't for the use of underground water but for the intake of water from Kanda Josui (Kanda water supply).
Japanese: これは地下水をくみ上げるものではなく、神田上水から供給されていた水道水の取水口である。
English: While waiting, neighbors would chat, thus giving rise to the expression "idobata-kaigi (literally, a meeting beside a well)."
Japanese: それを待つ間に近所の者で世間話をする「井戸端会議」という言葉が生まれた。
English: The term "oya (big house)" for a nagaya in the Edo period didn't indicate the owner of the nagaya but a person entrusted with the work of collecting rents and managing the nagaya (roughly equivalent to a property-management company of the present day).
Japanese: 江戸時代に「大家」と言えば、所有者（家主）とは異なり、住民の家賃を集めたり、管理を任されている者のことであった（現代で言うところの不動産管理会社に近い）。
English: Thus, there emerged the sonryo-ya (a lender, equivalent to today's renting business), who lent various things necessary for living to people living in nagaya.
Japanese: 長屋には様々な生活物品を貸し出す損料屋（レンタル業に相当）が発達した。
English: This term indicates a nagaya in which the dwelling units, each occupying a space of Kyu(9)shaku (approx. 2.7 m) in frontage by ni(2)ken (approx. 3.6 m) in depth, were placed in a row.
Japanese: 間口が9尺（約2.7m）、奥行きが2間（約3.6m）の住戸を連ねた長屋を九尺二間の長屋と言う。
English: The space of a dwelling unit in Kyu(9)shaku-ni(2)ken-no nagaya was roughly equal to that of a six-tatami-mat room, and generally the space corresponding to approximately 1.5-tatami mats was used for the earthen floor and the remaining 4.5-tatami-mat space was used for the room.
Japanese: 九尺二間の長屋とは畳6畳の部屋とほぼ同規模の大きさでありそのうち約1畳半を土間として、4畳半を部屋として区画されているのが一般的。
English: Munewari-nagaya indicated nagaya in which walls were placed in the direction parallel with the row, dividing the building into front and rear.
Japanese: 棟割長屋は本来、建物の棟方向に壁を造って前後に区分してしまう物を指した。
English: In the nagaya of this type, only one side of the structure had an entrance to the outside, leading to poor living environment due to a lack of poor air circulation and light.
Japanese: このタイプでは開口部が一方向しか取れないため、通風・採光に難があり、住環境は劣悪になる。
English: For the nagaya in Edo of the Edo period, many yakiya-zukuri (flammable)-style buildings with shingled roofs and clapboards were built, so that in the event of a fire they could easily be replaced.
Japanese: 江戸時代の江戸の長屋は火事になってもすぐに再建できるようにと、板葺きに下見板という焼屋造りとよばれるつくりが多かった。
English: The number of two-story nagaya (a stair was provided within each dwelling unit) gradually increased, and a lavatory was installed within each dwelling unit.
Japanese: 2階建て（各住戸内に階段がある）長屋も次第に増え、各戸にトイレも造られるようになった。
English: There are many examples of buildings that are seemingly condominiums but are in fact defined as nagaya according to the Building Standard Law.
Japanese: また見た目にはいわゆるマンションと同等の建築物でも建築基準法の要件に合致しているとその定義上、長屋となっている物も多い。
English: This is because one can build a nagaya even if the building does not meet the conditions for a condominium because the conditions for building a nagaya are less strict.
Japanese: これは長屋の方が建築要件が緩いため、マンションでは建築不可となる場合でも長屋ならば建築可能となるためである。
English: Cases of trouble with nearby residents have been reported when a building that is effectively a condominium is built using this method.
Japanese: この方法を用い、実質的にはマンションであるものを建築することにより周辺住民とトラブルを起こす例が報告されている。
English: The method of laying tatami mats depends on the tradition, and, as is well known, the size of a room was measured by counting the number of tatami mats laid.
Japanese: 畳の敷き方にもしきたりがあるが、その畳の敷かれた枚数で部屋の大きさを測るのもよく知られている。
English: Space is surrounded with shoji (paper sliding doors) or Fusuma (Japanese sliding doors), and shoji especially generate fuzzy and dim effects, giving an impression of ambiguity of whether or not the space is completely partitioned.
Japanese: 空間は、障子や襖（ふすま）で囲まれ、特に障子は、空間が完全に断絶されているとも、いないともいえる曖昧な、おぼろげさを醸し出している。
English: A Japanese style room offers a multi-purpose space that can be used for purposes from dining, to a family get-together, a study or a bedroom, achieved by taking out and putting in things such as a folding table, zabuton (traditional Japanese cushions used to sit on the floor), and Japanese-style bedding.
Japanese: 和室はさらに机や座布団、寝具などの出し入れで、会食から団欒、書斎、寝室とその用途をさまざまに変えることのできる多目的空間でもある。
English: Tatami mats, being made of plants called rushes, offer a sense of togetherness with nature and generate feelings of coolness in summer and warmth in winter, which are features of a Japanese-style room.
Japanese: イグサという植物系の自然素材で作られ、素足で歩けばそのまま自然との一体感を味わえ、それがまた夏は涼しく、冬は暖かいという和室の特性を形作っている。
English: In Taiwan, there are quite a few houses with Japanese-style rooms which have been passed down from the period of Japanese rule.
Japanese: 台湾は日本統治時代(台湾)の遺風を残す、和室がある家屋も少なくない。
English: However, tatami mats are not suitable for the climate; they are often replaced with wood flooring called héìshì de ban (wood floor in Japanese-style room) in Chinese.
Japanese: しかし台湾の気候は畳に適しないので、和室地板（、和室の床のこと）という木の板で取って代わることが多い。
English: Wayo Architecture refers to a temple architectural style which had been used in temple architecture in Japan as contrasted with the architectural style (Daibutsu-yo (Buddhist architecture style), Zenshu-yo (Zen-sect-style architecture)) that was introduced from China in the Kamakura period.
Japanese: 和様建築（わようけんちく）とは、鎌倉時代に中国から伝わった建築様式（大仏様、禅宗様）に対して、それまで日本で寺院建築に用いられてきた寺院建築の様式を指す。
English: The name "Wayo" sometimes refers to Wayo Architecture.
Japanese: 単に和様（わよう）とも呼ばれた場合には和様建築のことを指す場合もある。