queerly-gabled

Updated: May 7, 2025

But gradually, after an hour passed in the quarter, the eye begins to recognise in a vague way some general plan in the construction of these low, light, queerly-gabled wooden houses, mostly unpainted, with their first stories all open to the street, and thin strips of roofing sloping above each shop-front, like awnings, back to the miniature balconies of paper-screened second stories.

Lafcadio Hearn - Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan : First Series