or ''azekura'' is a Japanese

architectural style An architectural style is a set of characteristics and features that make a building or other structure notable or historically identifiable. It is a sub-class of style in the visual arts generally, and most styles in architecture relate closely ...

of simple wooden construction, used for storehouses ('' kura''), granaries, and other utilitarian structures. This style probably dates to the early centuries of the

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, such as during the

Yayoi The started at the beginning of the Neolithic in Japan, continued through the Bronze Age, and towards its end crossed into the Iron Age. Since the 1980s, scholars have argued that a period previously classified as a transition from the Jōmon p ...

or Kofun periods. It is characterized by joined-log structures of triangular cross-section, and commonly built of cypress timbers.

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