Shirakawa-go
The Praying-Hands Roofs
Portrait
Gassho-zukuri roofs are pitched at sixty degrees and named for hands joined in prayer; the attics under them housed silkworm cultivation, and the thatch is replaced by the whole village working together, one house at a time. Snow buries the valley from December to March, and the houses are lit on winter evenings a few times each season.
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