Located in a mountainous region that was cut off from the rest of the world for a long period of time, these villages with their Gassho-style houses subsisted on the cultivation of mulberry trees and ...

The Ainokura Gassho-style Village, the main site of the tour, is home to 20 remaining Gassho-style houses, many of which were built during the late Edo period to the Meiji era. In 1995 ...

(Gassho is a symbolic hand gesture that involves ... Architects like Henrik Bull, whose A-frame cabin in Stowe, Vermont, was erected in 1953, and Andrew Geller, whose A-frame beach house in ...