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‖ kura|ˈkʊrə| [Jap.] In Japan, a fire-proof store-house.
1880I. L. Bird Unbeaten Tracks Japan I. x. 106 There is a kura, or fire proof storehouse, with a tiled roof on the right of the house. 1906R. A. Cram Impressions Jap. Archit. iii. 63 Every house of any pretension possesses its ‘kura’, or storehouse, built of wood and bamboo, but covered two feet thick with clay... After a big fire in a Japanese city, nothing is left but fine ashes and the scorched but reliable kura. 1936K. Nohara True Face of Japan iii. 44 Between the houses of wood, paper and thin plaster, tower the white-washed massive buildings of the kura. 1965W. Swaan Jap. Lantern v. 58 The works of art may be brought in still packed in the special boxes in which they are stored in the kura. |