This is the same video as the previous of traditional japanese home, but with English dub. In this video, I am not cooking but instead am showing the different rooms and features of a traditional Japanese house.
In my channel, I usually show authentic but alternative Japanese home cooking, which can be made with the ingredients that are available outside of Japan.
Hey, do
welcome to Tai's Kitchen. Today I'm
going to show you a traditional Japanese
house. So today I'm joined with my very
good friend Shidel. She's living in this
very traditional Japanese house. She
just bought this house a while back and
has renovated. And I wanted to show you
this very traditional Japanese house.
Can you introduce yourself?
>> Hello, I am Shino. I teach Eikabbana and
Haiku. This house is over 200 years old.
I will gladly show you around my house.
This here is Shimeawa from Isay Shrine.
It says Sominay
no meaning house for descendant of
Somin.
Usually we take out shimawa after the
new year is over. So around the 7th of
January. People in Eay region decorate
with shimanawa all year round instead of
just in New Year's. This is to protect
the house and restrict bad luck from
entering through the gate.
Now I will show you our house.
This used to be a Mano botanical garden
and for that we have a stone monument of
a poem from Manoshu.
Here
used to be a pond full of lotus.
Akura is a traditional Japanese
storehouse usually built with thick
earthn or plaster walls to protect
valuable items such as rice, miso, sake
or family heirlooms from fire, humidity
and theft. This is called kot a
complicated decoration for kura. often
seen in Shimoto region. It's a specially
designed door as decorations which is
not often seen in normal Kura.
Please come into our home.
Here you go. This is genan. Maybe it's
more of doma earthn floored entryway.
>> Doma is an earthn floor space often
connected to the entrance and kitchen.
It was a multi-unctional area used for
cooking, handcrafts, or just to chat.
>> This is unusually wide and spacious for
Genkan. It is unusual, but we have a
wood stove here on the side. When we
have visitors, sometimes we just chat
here in Doma. Please come in. Oh, that's
our cat.
Come here, kitten. We actually have
three cats, but they're somewhere
hidden.
Please come in.
This is Ima, equivalent to western
living room. Ima is the room where we
welcome and host the guests when we have
friends over.
This is Kamidana. Kamidana is a small
household altar where we enshrine
worship the Japanese gods.
More about kamidana and Japanese
religions, please watch my other video
on that.
>> We place this kamidana on top of our
kiri tanu, which we actually usually do
not. Kiri tanu is a traditional chest
for kimono made with kiri, Japanese
pulovia wood.
Inside, we store kimono folded and
covered with special paper called
tatushi. Tatushi is strong but
breathable paper that protects kimono
from dust, light, insects, and humidity
while allowing the fabric to breathe.
Hi,
>> Kiri contains a lot of tannin which
gives the ability to repel insects and
also Japan is very humid. So, Japanese
pollnia has the ability to regulate
humidity by absorbing and releasing
moisture and for that reason in former
times it was customary for girls to be
provided with a pollnia chest when they
married.
Nowadays, this tradition has
unfortunately died out. Japan had the
tradition when a girl is born, people
planted Japanese pulovia. And so when
she gets old enough to marry someone,
then the tree would be big enough. Then
they chop down that tree to make a chest
as a gift for her marriage.
>> So if you see a Puvnia tree in their
house, then you know the house has or
had a daughter.
>> Then let's go to tokonoma.
>> This is the room with tokonoma. Tokonoma
is the most important traditionally
decorated room in Japanese houses. It is
often used to invite guests to show our
hospitality and let them feel special.
And this type of traditional
architecture is called shyen zukuri.
>> This central part is tokonoma. And these
are the different components of shy
zuri. They each have meanings and serve
different purposes.
>> In tokonoma, we often hang these kake
jiku traditional Japanese scrolls of
artwork and redecorate with some
flowers. Tokonoma is also a place where
we welcome and honor the deities and
ancestors. For such reasons, we Japanese
have been cherishing this architecture
of Tokonoma. Tokonoma is usually placed
most distance from the entrance gate as
it is the most important room of the
whole house and therefore the
architecture of Tokonoma is quite
different from the rest of the house.
For example, the type of shoji sliding
doors made of wooden lattice frame
covered with translucent paper.
We also have Kirit Tanu here. This
actually does not belong here since
Tokonoma should be empty and over tatami
should not be placed any furniture.
One of our daughters is very interested
in traditional weaving and so she wanted
me to show how it's done.
>> Could you explain what this is?
>> This is traditional Japanese foot
operated weaving machine and I am
weaving a cloth. What we have here For
the weft, I have string dyed in ayto,
traditional Japanese dying with natural
indigo. And for the warp, I have regular
western linen. Japan was famous for its
traditional weaving industries for a
long time,
but unfortunately has died out to have
these weaving done in the households.
Thank you so much for watching. I hope
you enjoyed this video and we'll see you
in the next video. Bye for now.
