in the traditional Japanese-style room and the pink tiles in the bathroom as they were. “Eighty-six years of history cannot be recreated,” Wormann said. The house now has a Nordic-style dining ...

Scratch tiles, which were produced locally at Japanese brickworks, soon spread to the Korean ... The material continued being used even after the war, and appeared in some traditional Korean houses ...

A few roof tiles came loose but not one of around ... To withstand the harsh rain, snow and ocean winds buffeting off the Sea of Japan, Sato’s house and most others in Akasaki have few glass ...

The Awaji Island where Minami-Awaji is located has been known as a major manufacturing center of “Awaji-gawara,” one of Japan’s three major “kawara” tile products. The other two are ...