From the doors of a sake storehouse in Katsuyama
They were made of stucco by the local wall plasterers (shakan, sakan 左官) with very simple tools. The plasterers used to make the earth walls (tsuchikabe 土壁) of traditional Japanese houses.
On the lower doors, there are two lions:
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shakan, sakan 左官 plasterer, stucco master
kote-e 鏝絵 "painting with plaster", relief picture often as decorations on the storehouse of rich merchants.
The main work of the shakan san during the construction of a traditional home is the making of the wall
tsuchikabe 土壁 "earth wall", mud wall
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