Impluvium

Japanese: impluvium
Impluvium

...This type of house plan is also seen in Etruscan tombs, so it is thought to have originally been an Etruscan style of house. In Pompeii houses, the atrium roof is splayed down on all four sides, with a skylight in the center to let rainwater drain, and a basin (impluvium) below that to catch the rainwater. In large mansions, behind the atrium is an area surrounded by a colonnaded courtyard (peristylum)....

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Japanese:

…このような住宅の平面はエトルリアの墓の平面にもみられることから,もとはエトルリアの住宅形式であったと考えられている。ポンペイの住宅では,アトリウムの屋根は四方からふきおろされ,中央に雨水を落とす天窓があり,その下に雨水を受ける水盤(インプルウィウムimpluvium)がある。大邸宅ではアトリウムを中心とする一郭の後ろに列柱中庭(ペリステュルムperistylum)を取り巻く一郭が造られる。…

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