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Minka in Ainokura, Japan by Eddy Wong

Minka are traditional Japanese farm homes, the rarest and most iconic of which feature steeply-pitched, thatch roofs called gasshō-zukuri(meaning “clasped hand”) which readily shed snow and somewhat mitigate the need for a chimney. 

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