ikken'ya 一軒屋
KEY WORD : architecture / folk dwellings
 
An independently framed urban-vernacular house *machiya 町家, of a more prosperous townsmen chounin 町人. Used in all parts of Japan from the Edo period onward to distinguish this house from the rows of terraced tenements called *nagaya 長屋.
 
 

 
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