Hello everyone! This video consists of a tour we went on inside a Japanese home of the daughter of one of our instructors on the study abroad trip. It was cool to see how minimalistic Japanese homes are. I hope you enjoyed this short video!
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Inside This Japanese Home Consists of:
1st floor
-Small narrow hallways
-small bathroom
-Kitchen connected to living room
-slipper and shoe rack
-small couch
2nd floor
-2 futons/mattresses
-a balcony and sliding door
-a work room
-steep narrow stairs
Backyard
-Bathhouse
-full of green grass and plants
-Very healthy plants
-Smaller and more cubed or rectangle-shaped than the US
-presence of moss and other grasses
-neighbors' houses are really close together
-outdoor bathhouse
Overall
-Most material in the house is wood or bamboo
-Mt Fuji view in the distance
Japanese rooftops
-Have a distinct ripple shape detail on the roofs and a multiple-layer effect. They are also at an angle
Between the houses and streets
-Power lines and long stairs go between houses and streets in the neighborhood and elevate as the hill does
The streets of a Japanese neighborhood
-Japanese marking on the roads says ‘tomare’ which means stop. It shares the same kanji in Chinese has a similar meaning.
-Very narrow roads and the houses are pretty close to the roads as well. The houses have an elevated kind of stand that they are on so they have a barrier between cars and the house as well as a fenced backyard.
-Homes have an outline/ colored frame around windows on the outside of the homes.
-In the streets and sidewalks of the Japanese neighborhood there are wildflowers growing in the cracks of the concrete
-The Japanese neighborhood distinct manhole cover design
Nearby Apartment or Hotel Style Housing
-The atmosphere consists of people drying their clothes outside on drying hooks
-Hotel and apartment style Japanese housing is more vertical than horizontal
-Gates are protecting people on balconies and housing areas. Might require more traditional housings to have balconies.
development of an area over time
-As our group experienced at the Japanese house, most of the flooring needed to be redone. Probably multiple houses in the neighborhood also ran into the same issue if they were built around the same time, so the flooring isn't the original after replacements. In the video, there was one house in red and black with the rising sun on the fence, I would say that was added far after the house was originally built and an aesthetic the people living in the house most likely decided on later.
-Most of the houses in the neighborhood looked fairly the same on the outside with the box shape and small houses. And the driveways only fit one car. The driveways were even mostly overgrown with grass and not paved.
elements that mark the landscape distinctly Japanese
-Hanging clothes outdoors
-Small balconies with gates
-Narrow walkways/streets/hallways in houses
-Box like houses
-Small and minimalistic homes
-Japanese writing on the roads
-Grey concrete stairs as opposed to other colors
-Distinct roofs and roof designs
-Colors of a japanese home generally aren't flashy
-Wooden indoor house design and bamboo and wood furniture inside
-Outdoor bathhouse
-Distinct areas in Japan have certain decorated manhole covers
what elements might be shared with landscapes elsewhere
-Japanese homes are small just like Vietnamese, Chinese, and Filipino homes. In Vietnam the stairs leading to homes in neighborhoods are also grey. Most if not all asian cultures require you to take off shoes before entering in apartments and houses.
-Vietnamese and Chinese homes also don't have a washer and dryer so they hand wash and dry by sitting out just like japanese style homes.
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Thanks for reading!
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