Koreans in Japan
The integration of Koreans into Japanese society has always been a major social, economic, and political issue. The following description of Korean housing in Japan in the late nineteenth century indicates that house style was one cultural element that distinguished Koreans from Japanese.
It will be seen by these brief extracts how dissimilar the Korean house is to that of the Japanese. And this dissimilarity is fully sustained by an examination of the photographs which Mr. Lowell made in Korea, and which show among other things low stonewalled houses with square openings for windows, closed by frames partly covered with paper, the frames hung from above and opening outside, and the roof tiled; also curious thatched roofs, in which the slopes are uneven and rounding, and their ridges curiously knotted[,] differ in every respect from the many forms of thatched roof in Japan.
Source: Edward S. Morse ([1896] 1961) Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings. New York: Dover Publications, 345.
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