An item for discussing ways of building houses not common in the USA.

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Can anyone help us to understand how Japanese houses are constructed?  The
following is from a new email pal (who put together a very nice midi file
of Dvorak's American Quartet).


> What is your house made of?  The wall looks like wood beams and plaster.

I live alone.I live in a rented house.This house is built and passes already
more than 30 years.
Squared lumber of a tree is used on a pillar and a framework.It is about
10cm squared lumber.
In the interval of a pillar and a pillar, about 90cm become a basis.
As for the inner wall, the plaster is used.
A door is called a sliding paper-door"husuma", and paper is set up.
Because Japan is home with much moisture, I take in moisture with such a
method.
But, in the recent new house, structure changed to modern.
I like a traditional Japanese house.

I don't know that much about Japanese houses, but they do still use real beam
framing.  Of course, houses are very expensive due to the land available, so
a lot more people live in apartments.

Our best guess is 4x4 post and beam construction at 3' spacings.
What might the part about moisture mean?  
T. Kijima was extremely careful with his spelling.  Another Japanese music
lover had quite a few spelling errors. Apparently Japanese people have
spelling problems just like Americans do, and unlike the Chinese, who memorize
the shape, not the phonetics, of words.  He was also very careful with each
note of the Dvorak quartet.  It sounded more like a live performance than
something typed into a computer.  He teaches technical subjects in high
school.

What is the paper used for besides doors?

Check out:
http://suntzu.larc.calpoly.edu/ecs/courses/420/Kanemoto/japArch.html

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