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Machiya
Machiya are traditional wooden townhouses found throughout Japan and typified in the historical capital of Kyoto. Machiya (townhouses) and nouka (farm dwellings) constitute the two categories of Japanese vernacular architecture known as minka (folk dwellings).
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