In class, we gave the students an assignment to express an image of a traditional Japanese house in a picture.
Although I am aware that this task is actually an impossible task, I do it in class almost every year.
If you think about it orthodoxly, you might imagine a thatched farm house or a townhouse.
Beyond that, the challenge is to see if you can accurately draw the details and surrounding environment, and to see if you can visualize it in your head.
While many students struggled, saying, ``I have a vague image but I can't draw it concretely,'' I was happy to see that some students were able to clearly draw a townhouse, and others tried to express the location and surrounding environment of a farm house. It was.
Every year, when we look at the roof types of farmhouses, we often see gable roofs.
I think it must be the influence of Shirakawa-go.
