DARUMA - kabe walls

LINK
http://haikutopics.blogspot.jp/2006/05/berlin-wall.html

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kabe　壁 wall
In traditional Japanese architecture, walls are generally non-supporting curtain walls, that is, light weight walls that do not support the roof structure. They serve to enclose spaces, and divide interior space. Walls are made of mud mixed with straw and covered with a slightly rough mud plaster surface. In temple buildings, white plaster is added as a finish coat. There are also wooden board walls made with boards set horizontally, but vertical boards are sometimes used.
- source : JAANUS


earth walls of a Japanese home 土壁 tsuchikabe

hikizuir kabe ひきずり壁 / 引き摺り
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hotarukabe, hotaru kabe 蛍壁 "firefly wall"
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kawarabei 瓦塀

. namakokabe 海鼠壁 Namako plaster wall .

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Ootsu migaki, Ootsu-migaki 大津磨き　
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Kyomigaki, also known as Otsumigaki or polished Otsu, is a polished earthen-lime finish often used in entrance ways and stair wells, that is, anywhere a more durable finish is desired. In pre-industrial Japan, due to it's energy intensive nature, hydrated lime was a valuable commodity and was used sparing. Kyomigaki uses roughly the minimum amount of lime needed to polish an earthen plaster, which provides a more durable surface than mizugone or nori-tsuchi, other popular earth based Japanese finishes. The following describes the preparation and application of Kyomigaki.
- source : japaneseplastering.blogspot.jp

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Compressed Otsu (earth, hydrated lime, hemp fibers)
Mizugone (earth, fine sand, fine straw fibers)
Juraku Mizugone (Juraku soil, fine sand, fine straw fibers)
Juraku Norigone (Juraku soil, fine sand, fine straw fibers, seaweed glue)
Kirikaeshi Finish (earth, sand, straw fibers)
Noritushi Hikizuri (earth, sand, fiber, seaweed glue)
Arakabe Finish (clay soil, chopped straw)
Hotarukabe - Firefly Finish (clay, sand, straw fibers)
Kyosabi Finish (clay, sand, straw fibers, iron frangments)
Hainaka (earth, hydrated lime, sand, straw fibers)
Scratched Earth-Cement (cement, earth, lime, sand, pigment, straw fibers)
Tataki (sandy soil, hydrated lime, magnesium chloride)
Exposed Aggregate　(cement, aggregate)
Shikkui Hikizuri
Tosa Shikkui
- Colored Clays list

- Look at the samples here :
- source : japaneseplastering.

tools - kote こて History of Japanese Trowels
- source : japaneseplastering.

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parari kabe ぱらり壁 , パラリ仕上

shikkui 漆喰 plaster, stucco

. sujibei 筋塀 temple wall .

Taikobei 太閤塀 at Sanjusangen-do

tsujibei 築地塀


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. Firewall, "sleeve wall" (udatsu) .


. Great Wall of China .　　


. Stone wall (ishigaki) .