Sunken hearth

A sunken hearth is indispensable to a style featuring a steep rafter roof.
Here, the situation inside a Shirakawago style-featuring-a-steep-rafter-roof private house garden and a style featuring a steep rafter roof is introduced.

It is a situation inside a Shirakawago style featuring a steep rafter roof. In the style-featuring-a-steep-rafter-roof private house garden, the private house is saved in the state of an as in [ ancient times ] in this way. Among these, nine buildings are prefectural specification important cultural properties. I was allowed to interfere and take a photograph inside this time. For a building with a steep rafter roof, the sunken hearth should also call it a life and it is [ the sunken hearth ] indispensable. The reason big No. 1 is related also to the fault of the wooden structure maximum made only in a wooden combination. The point that a wooden structure makes to be easy to decompose and a termite representation, and a noxious insect is easy to be damaged is got. although an antiseptic and the medicine of extermination of termites will be used if it is the present -- that time without such a thing to a joining-the-palms-together colony -- the fire of a sunken hearth -- a building -- fumigates -- it has prevented a tree rotting at the same time it makes it dry by things and prevents the damage of a termite. Moreover, the fire of a sunken hearth is a means indispensable for people who live in an intense cold heavy snowfall area to warm oneself. Although the sunken hearth which is said to have carried in the bonfire indoors also became increases worries about the fire by sparks to a style featuring a steep rafter roof which is a wooden structure when it glances, it had prevented thinking, the board called a Hiama being enough for a ceiling and a fireplace, and sparks going up to a ceiling there directly truly. The air and smoke which were warmed by the sunken hearth rise to nature, and the second floor and an attic. And it is the reason of dyeing with soot all the trees which result in a ceiling black, and demonstrating the natural antiseptic-cum-insect control effect. It is impressed of the wisdom born out of the life of old people in many cases. Moreover, although there is sweet red-bean soup with rice cakes of a horse chestnut, in order to also eat this horse chestnut, it is necessary to carry out removing bitter taste which is bitter taste. The ashes of this sunken hearth are very helpful to it. It is said that in addition, as for the firewood which natural resources sleep in surrounding mountains abundantly, and wood uses by sushi and a sunken hearth now, thinner timber is used. Moreover, one does not use a nail but a structure with a steep rafter roof is using the method of binding with a rope combining a tree. When it is the mechanism of the building not using a nail itself catching snowy dignity, it bending, and distributing the load of dignity unenthusiastically, seemingly this will be indispensable in order to let the dignity of terrible snow go past, and is it? Coexistence with nature, the wisdom of a life, and such a thing thought that they had got it blocked in the village of joining the palms together a lot.

The sunken hearth of a style-featuring-a-steep-rafter-roof private house garden	A sunken hearth with a steep rafter roof	The sunken hearth which burns	Crops of Shirakawago ancient times
The fire of a sunken hearth is raised	The situation inside a private house	A sunken hearth and a Hiama	A sunken hearth with a steep rafter roof
The flame of the sunken hearth which burns	An internal structure with a steep rafter roof	An attic with a steep rafter roof	The flame of a Shirakawago sunken hearth
The flame of a sunken hearth	Flame	Real sweet red-bean soup with rice cakes of a horse chestnut	The secret which does not wipe out a flame