Genkan (玄関) are traditional Japanese entryway areas for a house, apartment, or building, a combination of a porch and a doormat. It is usually located...
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Housing in Japan (section Genkan)
does not have a designated use for each room aside from the entrance area (genkan, 玄関), kitchen, bathroom, and toilet. Any room can be a living room, dining...
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Amsterdam have women in the windows, tend to have a young woman kneeling by the genkan (entryway) or in the living room (which is fully open to the street) of...
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At the entrance of every school, from preschool to college, there is a genkan with an assigned locker (getabako) for each student to put uwabaki. A student's...
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stricter shoe-wearing rules than their Jewish counterparts. In Japan, the genkan, an entryway area to a house, apartment, or building, is where outdoor shoes...
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dust that may be attached to the soles. Instead, shoes are removed in the genkan (mudroom or entrance foyer), and often replaced with slippers called uwabaki...
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A "mudroom" at Camp Warren summer camp, Minnesota Atrium (architecture) Genkan Vestibule (architecture) Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Lobby" . Encyclopædia...
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Original release date OVA–1 "The Arrival of Lev!" Transliteration: "Riēfu genkan!" (Japanese: リエーフ見参！) Shintarō Nakazawa Taku Kishimoto November 9, 2014 (2014-11-09)...
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A getabako (下駄箱) is a shoe cupboard in Japan, usually situated in the genkan, an entryway or porch of the house. This is often called a cubby in the United...
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customers inside. Antarala – vestibule in certain Hindu temples Entryway Genkan – entryway area in Japanese buildings Propylaeum – monumental gateway in...
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Dēto) Zoo (動物園, Dōbutsuen) Bike Courier (バイク便, Baiku-bin) Entrance (玄関, Genkan) Jealousy (嫉妬, Shitto) Secret (秘密, Himitsu) Lie (嘘, Uso) Proposal (プロポーズ...
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(楽琵琶), 4-stringed lute Gakusō (楽箏), 13-string zither of Chinese origin Genkan (阮咸) Gogen biwa (五絃琵琶), 5-stringed lute Kugo (箜篌), angled harp used in ancient...
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arranged to create smaller rooms, including an entrance hall or foyer (genkan (玄関)), butsuma (仏間), naka no ma (中の間) and oku no ma (奥の間), both of which...
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The Shikidai Genkan entrance to Daikaku-ji...
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sections: a floor of compacted earth, called a doma (土間) (the precursor to a Genkan) and a raised floor (generally around 20 inches (50 cm) above the level...
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shutters protecting the area from rain (雨戸, amado). The entrance hall (genkan) emerged as an element of residential architecture during the Momoyama period...
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"Interaction and Identity in a Cultural Space: 'Uchi' versus 'Soto' in a Japanese Genkan". European Journal of East Asian Studies. 20 (2): 310–343. doi:10.1163/15700615-20211011...
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low-security, high-utility places such as office desk drawers and in the anteroom (genkan) of a residence. A mitome-in's form is governed by fewer customs than jitsuin...
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Futsu Wain no Gosan) 34. Dead Heat in the Entrance Hall (玄関ホールのデッドヒート, Genkan Hōru no Deddo Hīto) 35. One with Sunflowers at Dusk (落日の向日葵畑に心かさねて, Rakujitsu...
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yagura) Matsuyama Castle Entry (松山城玄関, Matsuyama-jō genkan) Entrance Tamon Turret (玄関多聞櫓, Genkan Tamon yagura) Small Keep (小天守閣, Kotenshukaku) Ten-ken...
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