“The photo above shows the traditional indoor fire pit known as an irori, which sometimes sits on a raised seating platform, though in the photo above the irori has been traded for a more efficient (and safer) wood stove. The beautiful half-frosting on the glass screen doors in the photo above provides some privacy from the fairly public courtyard for people seated inside.”
Shirakawa-go House, Japan, by Jerry Perez Jr on Flickr.
From Wikipedia: Shirakawa-go is a small, traditional village showcasing a style of buildings called gasshō-zukuri.
