Warehouse - Kura

Japanese: 倉∥蔵 - くら

A building for storing grain, clothing, furniture, weapons, etc. Also written as "kura". There are various types of storehouses, such as raised storehouses, wooden storehouses, storehouses with ashlars, log storehouses, stone storehouses, earthen storehouses, and cave storehouses, and there are various names for storehouses, such as shokura, chokufukura, gogura, rice storehouses, sake storehouses, and wooden storehouses, depending on their management and use. From the second half of the 16th century, a style in which the outside was thickly coated with earth came into widespread use for fire prevention.
[Takakura]
Storehouses began to be built in Japan after the cultivation of wet rice began.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

穀物や衣類，什器，武器などを納めておく建物。〈庫〉とも書かれる。構造の違いから高倉，板倉，校倉（あぜくら），丸木倉，石倉，土蔵（どぞう），穴蔵などがあり，管理や用途によって正倉，勅封蔵，郷蔵，米蔵，酒蔵，木蔵など，さまざまな名称がある。16世紀後半以降，防火のため，外側を土で厚く塗り込める形式が多く用いられるようになった。
［高倉］
　日本で倉が建てられるようになったのは，水稲の耕作がはじまってからである。

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