Machiya are already depicted on 17th century screens and they were still built during the Taisho period and beyond until about These wooden houses, where merchants and artisans both lived and worked, provided a space in front for a store, in the middle for family quarters with small garden, and in the rear for workshops and warehouses.
#Merchants of kaidan specialists windows
Kyoto 'machiya' are traditional townhouses with distinctive Kyoto-style latticework doors and slatted second-story windows (fig. In contrast to the 'minka', which are farmhouses, fishermen's houses and mountain dwellings, the 'machiya' is a merchants' and craftsmen's town-house, specifically in Kyoto, also often called 'kyo-machiya'. Machiya The Japanese step-chest (kaidan-dansu or hakokaidan) is inextricably linked with the traditional 'machiya' in Kyoto.
1 HAKOKAIDAN or KAIDAN-DANSU: THE TRADITIONAL JAPANESE STEP-CHEST Name: Japanese: German: English: French: Dutch: Italian: Kaidan-dansu hakokaidan (hakohashigo hakodan) Treppenschrank Schranktreppen Stiegenkasten step-chest staircase-chest stair cabinet box-staircase meuble escalier armoire escalier escalier emboîté trapkast trapmeubel scala ad armadio comoda scala Japanese historic periodisation Ancient - Kodai Kofun Asuka Nara Medieval - Chusei Heian Kamakura Muromachi Feudal - Edo Azuchi-Momoyama Tokugawa/Edo Modern - Gendai Meiji Taisho Showa Heisei Unit Kanji Relative value Metric value, 1/1000 sun mm rin 1/100 sun mm bu 1/10 sun mm sun 10 bu, 1/10 shaku cm shaku 10 sun cm ken 6shaku 1.818m 10 shaku m 60 ken 109 m ri Location: Client: Time-period: Design: Construction: Materials: Measurements: Kyoto, Japan (but not exclusively) Traditional town-houses or 'machiya' Merchants and craftsmen/artisans ('chonin' classes) From early Edo to late Taisho period Evolved from common stair-ladder to storage furniture or 'tansu' Local artisans: joiners / carpenters / cabinet makers Cypress, cedar or cryptomeria, zelkova, pine, chestnut, Japanese oak Following traditional 'ken'-system of practical construction module.
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