ido　井戸
CATEGORY:　architecture / folk dwellings, tea houses
　
1　A well supplying drinking water. It may be deep or narrow, depending on the depth of the water table. The shaft is often lined with timber siding or stone, and the bottom paved with pebbles. In some areas, notably the Aizu 会津 area of Fukushima, the term ido is applied to a stream used as a source of drinking water.
Shuuentei 聚遠亭 (Hyougo)
Shuuentei 聚遠亭 (Hyougo)

Nagatomi 永富 house (Hyougo)
Nagatomi 永富 house (Hyougo)

2　In parts of Shiga prefecture, a large communal tub for drinking water. Several tubs were placed at convenient points in a village and fed with clean water through bamboo　pipes. The tubs were about 1.5m high and 4.5m in circumference.

3　In the Yoshino area of Nara prefecture, a term for a tub used as a store for water and filled from a valley stream.
　

　
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