Suppose Office designed this Japanese family home with big sliding walls and windows, simple materials and a traditional “douma”, or earthen floor. Its exterior ... the house with a flexible ...

Tatami flooring covered with woven rush is perhaps the most essential element in a traditional house. The faint smell of tatami is a distinct characteristic of Japanese rooms, and the springy but ...

Named the Morena, it features an eye-catching timber exterior made using a traditional Japanese charring technique ... from insects and rotting. The tiny house features two doors.

In traditional Japanese homes ... showcase the work of craftspeople in sukiya carpentry, plaster, Japanese paper, mullions, braided chord, screens and doors, and lacquer. 'We believe houses that are ...

Daisuke Kajiyama and his late wife, Hila, spent two years restoring an abandoned traditional Japanese house. The couple turned the 96-year-old wooden home into a quaint guesthouse in Shizuoka ...

A new movement is emerging in Japan, where people are dismantling minka, or pre-war "people's houses," and rebuilding ... a restored traditional Japanese home has huge windows overlooking the ...

A small north Queensland sugar town is the last place someone might expect to find the oldest known traditional Japanese ... She has been living in the "Japanese House" with her architect husband ...