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Architect Reiko Miyazaki visited more than 50 countries to conduct a kitchen survey in traditional houses, and based on the materials at that time, a reproduction model of 1/10 scale was produced, and this time six of them Is on display.

At 40 degrees north latitude, you can see models of Germany, Russia, and Canada from the north, and India, Nepal and Japan from the south.

The kitchen, an indispensable living space for living, is a place where you can handle food and are closely related to the local climate and culture, and where you can see changes that require functionality as a place to work. It is said that there is a high degree of uniqueness depending on the region.

Commentary: Winters in the northern country are cold and dark, so warm and bright day facilities are set at the center of the house. The kitchen of this house is the home of a peasant in the Franken region of Germany, which was seen until the early 20th century. An iron cooking stove was placed in the place where the furnace was originally located, and smoke was removed with an old chimney. The heat of the stove also warms the next room.

Commentary: In Russia, where the cold weather is severe, the entire room is warmed by Pe Chika (fireplace). There are times when there is no sink in the old-fashioned kitchen. In this log house for workers, the toilet handwasher is poured into the enamel sink, and the water is pumped. A bucket is placed under the sink instead of a drain pipe, and when it is full, go out to throw it away. Pe Chika in the kitchen with a pot is divided into two with a neighbor, and the bedroom in the next room warms up on the back.

Commentary: In winter, the traditional home of the region is Igur, a snow house that piles up cut snow round. It is sealed, and only a small fire with seal fat is warm enough. There is a windbreak room at the entrance, and an outlet and ice window on the bed. The outside is just like a natural freezer, where seal and fish are processed. In the Arctic area, the outside is the kitchen.

Commentary: In the southern country, it is hot if you keep burning the fire necessary for cooking, so you are nervous about controlling the day. Therefore, God is enshrined in the kitchen that uses fire, and it is considered a sacred place, and even in the dirt, you must take off your footwear and enter barefoot. Traditional kitchens use soil to make open furnaces on the front and upper sides, and the fuel is flat and dried cow dung.

Commentary: It is a four-story building with sun-dried bricks, with a livestock house on the first floor and a staple corn in the grain storage on the second floor. In the kitchen on the top floor, a furnace is built with soil, and daily food, water and fuel are transported using narrow stairs. For Hindu, the kitchen is a sacred place and cannot be accessed by anyone other than family members.

Commentary: In Japan, the custom of cooking by hanging pots in various ways, mainly north of central Honshu, has spread, while in the southern region, furnaces were used for cooking. This house was a farmhouse that remained on the outskirts of Tokyo until the 1980s, with a stove attached to it. In the Kanto region, the dirt area was called "kitchen", and the kitchen was called "selfish" or "selfish".

In addition to Figia, illustrations of the kitchen of the house visited by Mr. Miyazaki, various literature showing the transition of modern Japanese kitchen influenced by the West, and stainless steel deep squeezing sinks for the Japan Housing Corporation where you can experience the modern Japanese kitchen.

Tokyo Dumbo is also interested in cooking, and the kitchen is one of the favorite spaces in the house. This exhibition is a wonderful one that allows you to feel that the kitchen has an important function to protect human daily activities and is greatly affected by the effects of climate, history, religion, etc. in various places. I thought it was.

There are still many sessions left, so we recommend that you visit us.

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