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土間 (どま, doma) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “earth floor; pit”.
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Example sentences 11
あの 家には 広い 土間があります
There is a large earth-floored room in that house.
この後者が土間である。
The latter area constitutes a doma.
その結果この頃から土間は板敷きとなる。
As a result wooden flooring was adopted to cover the doma from this period onwards.
土間に限っては土足のままでもかまわない。
However, it was permissible to enter the doma alone without taking off one's shoes.
したがってこの頃の土間にはまだ仕切りがなかった。
Accordingly, there were no divided sections in the doma at that time.
また、玄関土間４と土間６は、同一レベルに設定されている。
The entrance earth floor 4 and the earth floor 6 are set at the same level.
この床版層２の上に各単位土間床版４にわたって土間床仕上げ面層３を設ける。
An earthen floor finishing surface layer 3 is provided on the floor slab layer 2 over the respective unit earthen floor slabs 4.
表から奥まで「通し土間」という土間を通し、一方に部屋をほぼ一列に並べた間取りが標準的であった。
The typical floor plan of a merchant house included an earth floor space that ran the entire length of the house on one side and rooms lined up on the other side.
土間は基本的に戸外と同じ扱いであるため、一時的に土間に下りる場合でも、サンダルなど簡易的な履物をはく。
Because a doma is treated as an outdoor place, even if descending to a doma temporarily, simple footwear such as sandals are put on.
こうして格差がついた後方の土間のことを「高土間｣（たかどま）といい、舞台近くの「平土間｣（ひらどま）と区別した。
Doma placed at the rear at a higher level were called 'taka-doma' (raised earthen floor) to distinguish them from the doma in the vicinity of the stage, which were called 'hira-doma' (flat earthen floor).
享和2年(1802)中村座が改築された際に、桟敷の前方に土間よりも一段高い板敷きの土間が設けられたのを嚆矢とした。
The reconstruction work on the Nakamura-za Theater in 1802 established a one-step higher doma with a wooden floor in front of the sajiki for the first time.