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The last item in List of partitions of traditional Japanese architecture is bark walls or cladding. The source does not give a Japanese name. I've tried to find it, but the only hint I have is that it's probably cypress ( sugi) bark. Does anyone have the name, and ideally a citable source? Reportedly more common in the south of Japan, and, by the 1880s, only used as a sole wall material by the poor. HLHJ ( talk) 04:57, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
My source, the 1885 book Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings: "In the southern provinces a rough house-wall is made of wide slabs of bark, placed vertically, and held in place by thin strips of bamboo nailed cross-wise. This style is common among the poorer houses in Japan; and, indeed, in the better class of houses it is often used as an ornamental feature, placed at the height of a few feet from the ground." [1]
I dug through Commons and collected a number of images: Commons:Category:Bark cladding, a second one of which is now shown here. Three are from the Kanazawa Yuwaku Edomura, an open-air museum which has some English materials online, but I have not been able to find a description of the walls on its English site. It is of course possible that there is not a standard Japanese name. JAANUS, which is usually an excellent source for Japanese architecture (if dense to the point of being rather inscrutable), has entries on bark roofing, but none on bark walling. I should really have added more of this info initially.
Thank you all for the useful links. I love archaic bureaucratese; so many of its faults are universal (and fun to lampoon). From the information provided by Alansplodge, it seems quite possible that the bark may be cypress, but not sugi. I don't have a reliable source that says it's even cypress, and Lambiam may be right that it's cedar (it looks like cedar, fibrous and flexible). I think an inquiry to the people who maintain such properties might be a good next step, but I'll leave it a couple more days as this has only just been posted. HLHJ ( talk) 16:32, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
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The last item in List of partitions of traditional Japanese architecture is bark walls or cladding. The source does not give a Japanese name. I've tried to find it, but the only hint I have is that it's probably cypress ( sugi) bark. Does anyone have the name, and ideally a citable source? Reportedly more common in the south of Japan, and, by the 1880s, only used as a sole wall material by the poor. HLHJ ( talk) 04:57, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
My source, the 1885 book Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings: "In the southern provinces a rough house-wall is made of wide slabs of bark, placed vertically, and held in place by thin strips of bamboo nailed cross-wise. This style is common among the poorer houses in Japan; and, indeed, in the better class of houses it is often used as an ornamental feature, placed at the height of a few feet from the ground." [1]
I dug through Commons and collected a number of images: Commons:Category:Bark cladding, a second one of which is now shown here. Three are from the Kanazawa Yuwaku Edomura, an open-air museum which has some English materials online, but I have not been able to find a description of the walls on its English site. It is of course possible that there is not a standard Japanese name. JAANUS, which is usually an excellent source for Japanese architecture (if dense to the point of being rather inscrutable), has entries on bark roofing, but none on bark walling. I should really have added more of this info initially.
Thank you all for the useful links. I love archaic bureaucratese; so many of its faults are universal (and fun to lampoon). From the information provided by Alansplodge, it seems quite possible that the bark may be cypress, but not sugi. I don't have a reliable source that says it's even cypress, and Lambiam may be right that it's cedar (it looks like cedar, fibrous and flexible). I think an inquiry to the people who maintain such properties might be a good next step, but I'll leave it a couple more days as this has only just been posted. HLHJ ( talk) 16:32, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
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