Stable - Horse stable

Japanese: 厩∥馬屋 - うまや

An independent building for keeping horses or a room inside a house for keeping horses (and sometimes cows) is also called maya. Stables on farms for keeping farm horses and stables on samurai residences, shrines, and temples for keeping riding horses have different structures. Farm stables are divided into an inner stable inside the main house and an outer stable built separately, but the curved-roofed stables of the southern part of the country are a style that was established by connecting the outer stable to the main house. Also, the chumon-zukuri style, which is common in areas with heavy snowfall along the Sea of Japan coast, was established by moving the stables that were originally inside the main house to the chumon gate, and is somewhere between the two.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

馬を飼っておく独立した建物や家屋内の馬(ときには牛)を飼う部屋で，〈まや〉とも呼ぶ。農耕馬を飼う農家の馬屋と乗馬用の馬を飼う武家屋敷や神社･寺院の馬屋とでは構造が異なる。農家の馬屋は，主屋内にある内馬屋と独立して建つ外馬屋に分かれるが，南部の曲屋は外馬屋を主屋に接続させて成立した形式である。また日本海側の多雪地方に多い中門造はもともとは主屋内にあった馬屋を中門に移すことによって成立しており，両者の中間的な存在である。

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