Exhibition Hall

●【Introducing Japanese Folk Houses】 In the Exhibition Hall inwards the Museum House, multi-media display are used to explicate how the folk houses were designed together with built, together with illustrate the life vogue of the people who lived inwards them. ●Zone 1【Structure of Folk Houses】 Folk houses are dwellings amongst traditional shape for the full general public. Japanese folk houses select a multifariousness of characteristics distinctive to the climate, natural features or social structures of their share of origin. We hold back at these houses amongst iii points of view; the arrangements of the rooms (floor plans), structures together with designs. 'Floor plans' (madori inwards Japanese) straight reflected the means people lived, 'structures' (tsukuri) were frameworks, together with 'designs' (katachi) were figures produced past times them. Japanese folk houses were designed to last of practical use. We tin uncovering abundant beauty inwards the buildings, which select been maintained for hundreds of years.

 

●Zone 2 【Building of Folk Houses】 The constructions of folk houses inwards modern times were to a greater extent than oft than non called 'Fusin' ; the edifice of novel houses, together with also the extending, rebuilding, together with re-roofing (re-thatching) of onetime houses were known every bit 'Fusin', (literally communal efforts). Here the function past times professional person craftsmen together with the function of usual assist past times the residents of the hamlet met. For example, people gathered bringing materials together with articles, together with took role inwards the function of re-roofing. At 'Fushin', people built a identify together with enjoyed the cooperation of the whole village, thus it was a people's association. The rootage of the give-and-take 'Fushin' is Buddhist, pregnant "to asking an human activeness of charity far together with wide" together with also "Zen trainee monks function all together".

●Zone 3 【The Geographic Style of Folk Houses】

Farming villages on the plains are roughly divided into 2 types, 'sansongata'(sparse) together with 'shusongata'(clustered). In a 'sanson' type village, houses prevarication scattered about, piece houses are clustered together inwards a 'shuson' type village.
Many villages of 'sanson' type had windbreak forests planted around the houses, inwards fellowship to laid the boundary business together with to protect the houses from rigid winds. Windbreaks grew inwards the areas of San-in, Hokuriku, together with Kanto-Plain inwards relation to seasonal winds. On the other hand, 'shuson' type houses were enclosed amongst earthen walls, hedges, or bamboo clumps. Sometimes an entire identify was surrounded amongst an annex building. Otherwise, a whole hamlet was sometimes surrounded amongst a trench. People idea upwards diverse kinds of facilities to protect the folk houses from nature or unwelcome intruders.

●Zone iv 【Life inwards folk houses】

Both 'Irori', an opened upwards hearth (installed inwards the floor), together with 'kamado', a cooking hearth, were bare necessities of life inwards folk houses. It is good known that 'Iroris' prevailed inwards due east Nippon (actually north-east Japan) together with the 'Kamados' inwards W Nippon (actually south-west Japan).
The Iroris served both every bit warming together with cooking inwards the northern surface area where cold was severe, together with the Kamados served every bit cooking alone inwards the southern surface area where warming was non thus much regarded every bit important. The terminate was burning brightly inwards both of these hearths for people's daily life all through the year. There was a saying, "Iroris inwards the due east together with Kamados inwards the west". It was ane of the figures which showed the fact that our ancestors adapted themselves to the climate weather condition of their environment.