Sleeping room

Japanese: 寝間 - ねま
Sleeping room

It is called nedoko, nebeya, nesho, nand, chodai, chouda, etc., and it is obviously a bedroom. It is also called simply heya, but it is a rare part in the open-air Japanese house that is considered as a private room. However, it was limited to use by the head of the household and his wife. It is said to have originated from the storeroom or chodai style of the Heian period shinden-zukuri style. The old style has three sides made of wooden or earthen walls, no windows, the threshold of the entrance is slightly higher, and the name hajikakushi, which seems to be a name from the time when straw was laid on the wooden floor. Before the wooden floor, it was a doza, where the ground was dug and rice husks, straw, or thatch were laid on top of a straw mat.

[Yotaro Takeuchi]

[Reference] | Bedroom

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

ネドコ、ネベヤ、ネショ、ナンド、チョウダイ、チョウダなどの呼称があり、いうまでもなく寝室である。単にヘヤともいうが、開放的な日本の住宅のなかで、珍しく個室としての配慮がなされている部分である。しかしそれは家長夫婦の使用に限られていた。平安時代の寝殿造の納戸構えないしは帳台構えに由来するものといわれている。その古い形式のものは、三方を板または土の壁として窓がなく、出入口の敷居をすこし高くし、板張り床に藁(わら)を敷いていた時代の呼称とも思えるハジカクシの名称も伝承されている。板張り床になる前は土座(どざ)で、地面を掘って、籾殻(もみがら)や藁、かやなどを敷き詰め莚(むしろ)を敷いていた。

[竹内芳太郎]

[参照項目] | 寝室

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