daidokoro

Aino huts on the top of the beach across the river, and a grey barrack, consisting of a polished passage eighty feet long, with small rooms on either side, at one end a gravelled yard, with two quiet rooms opening upon it, and at the other an immense daidokoro, with dark recesses and blackened rafters — a haunted-looking abode.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

The daidokoro was open to the roof, roof and rafters were black with smoke, and a great fire of damp wood was smoking lustily.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

The yadoya consisted of a daidokoro, or open kitchen, and stable below, and a small loft above, capable of division, and I found on returning from a walk six Japanese in extreme deshabille occupying the part through which

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

After a long search I could get nothing better than this room, with fusuma of tissue paper, in the centre of the din of the house, close to the doma and daidokoro.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

In the drowning torrent, sitting in puddles of water, and drenched to the skin hours before, we reached this very primitive yadoya, the lower part of which is occupied by the daidokoro, a party of storm-bound students, horses, fowls, and dogs.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

It is a large, rambling old house, and fully thirty servants were bustling about in the daidokoro, or great open kitchen.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

The daidokoro had a large wood fire burning in a trench, filling the whole place with stinging smoke, from which my room, which was merely screened off by some dilapidated shoji, was not exempt.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

The financial administrator (kanjo-bugyo) received also the appellation of kitchen administrator (daidokoro-bugyo), and his duties embraced everything relating to the finance of the Bakufu, including, of course, their estates and the persons residing on those estates.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

The solitude of the thirty or forty rooms which lie between it and the kitchen, and which are now filled with nets and fishing-tackle, was something awful; and as the wind swept along the polished passage, rattling the fusuma and lifting the shingles on the roof, and the rats careered from end to end, I went to the great black daidokoro in search of social life, and found a few embers and an andon, and nothing else but the stupid-faced man deploring his fate, and two orphan boys whose lot he makes more wretched than his own.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

Ito’s great desire on arriving at any place is to shut me up in my room and keep me a close prisoner till the start the next morning; but here I emancipated myself, and enjoyed myself very much sitting in the daidokoro.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004