irori

It is heated entirely by a smoky irori hearth, a square hole cut into the floor in the middle of the room.

How Not to Travel in Japan 2006

People sleep communally, ten or more at a time, around the irori.

How Not to Travel in Japan 2006

People sleep communally, ten or more at a time, around the irori.

How Not to Travel in Japan 2006

It is heated entirely by a smoky irori hearth, a square hole cut into the floor in the middle of the room.

How Not to Travel in Japan 2006

Even now it is comfortless enough for the people to come in wet, just to warm the tips of their fingers at the irori, stifled the while with the stinging smoke, while the damp wind flaps the torn paper of the windows about, and damp draughts sweep the ashes over the tatami until the house is hermetically sealed at night.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

Round some live embers in the irori fifteen men, women, and children were lying, doing nothing, by the dim light of an andon.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

At the next stage, called Takahara, we got one horse for the baggage, crossed the river and the ravine, and by a steep climb reached a solitary yadoya with the usual open front and irori, round which a number of people, old and young, were sitting.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

In the same open space his clerk was writing at a lacquer desk of the stereotyped form — a low bench with the ends rolled over — a woman was tailoring, coolies were washing their feet on the itama, and several more were squatting round the irori smoking and drinking tea.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

It was already awake, and its noise grew loud as they entered the streets-shrill clamor of voices, thump of hoofs, groaning wheels and clashing irori.

Starways Anderson, Poul 1956

The main dining room was heated by an open fire pit known as an irori, where the innkeeper kept a split log glowing for cooking, warmth and a rustic atmosphere.

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