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"It was a snowy country when escaped from long of the border......"
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This is the original scenery of Niigata stated by the beginning of the
masterpiece "Snow Country" with which the Nobel Prize writer
and Yasunari Kawabata represent Japan which drew Yuzawa-cho, Niigata on
the stage.
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Moreover,
the "Hokuetsu Seppu" published at the Edo term is saved in the
Suzuki Bokusi memorial hall in Shiozawa.
Iｔ was
published by Edo around the autumn of 1837 (Tenpou 8), and two pieces of four volumes were put on the market in (Tenpou 12) November.
It
starts in guidance to various parts of Echigo, and is drawing by various
anecdote, record, and considerations of the snowy country detailed in one
year.
This
work serves as a best seller of those days,
It became precious folk customs, dialect, geography, and charge of industrial
history which tells people of the Edo period the life to snowy country
Echigo.
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Thus, the private house in Niigata which there is singularity cultivated
in severe natural environment peculiar to a snowy country in the culture
and tradition of Niigata, and bears a snowstorm, and has continued supporting
people's home -- snow -- it is a valuable inheritance which does not look
at an example in the deep another prefecture of an Echigo no one but.
and a century thing -- it is brought up during long years and the traditional
old private-house construction which still continuing being useful can
also be said to be the highest work of art that the climate induced with
the beauty of a tradition unique to Japan.
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Many deciduous broad-leaved trees, such as keyaki and a beech, are being used for the old private house in Niigata -- snow
-- in order to bear deep conditions of location, room arrangement is a
character of the rice field -- width of pillar whose 30cm angles are
as thick as 60cm is attained to -- thick -- it puts and Kamoi, a beam, and a
beam are also thickly strong.
moreover, the part -- as thick for every store as
thick keyaki's pillar-- putting and having constructed
Kamoi, a beam, etc. firmly |
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thick big beam which is the feature of snowy country construction is used also
many, and what is seen is overwhelmed. On the other hand, since the old private
house of an another prefecture has a weak point referred to as that
reconstruction restoration has unreasonableness since there are many Japan
cedars, pines, etc. and intensity is weak, the wonderfulness of the old private
house in Niigata is further conspicuous, and it is recommendation.
In our company, such an old private house is
reproduced with original technology, and it is putting a lot of energy into the
old private-house reproduction enterprise other than a common used housing
especially by the wish with if the wonderfulness can be known and obtained to
many directions.
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