kugurido　潜り戸
CATEGORY:　architecture / folk dwelings
　
（1）　Old Andou 安藤 house (Yamanashi)
　
1　A generic term for a small door, very often a wicket door set into the leaf of another larger door or gate or into an adjacent wall. Sometimes it is a swinging door *tobira 扉 or sometimes a single sliding door *katabikido 片引き戸. It is found in gates *mon 門, gatehouses nagayamon 長屋門, the main entrance doors *oodo 大戸 of vernacular houses *minka 民家 and rain shutters *amado 雨戸. The kugurido was used when the main doors were shut for the sake of security. Kugurido were small to prevent more than one person passing through at a time, and because they had a high threshold and low lintel, one could not enter without bending. Often abbreviated to kuguri 潜り.

2　In the gardens of teahouses *chashitsu 茶室, a small sliding or swing door with a high threshold, sometimes provided in the middle gateway *nakakuguri 中潜, dividing the inner and outer gardens. Also called kirido 切戸.

3　An alternative term for a tearoom entrance *kuguriguchi 潜口.

4　The main door of the house which opened into the earthfloored area *doma 土間 in farmhouses nouka 農家 in parts of Akita, Hyougo and Saga prefectures.
　
　

　
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