A look at the traditional farmhouses now commonly called kominka—“old folk dwellings”—a name that underscores their age. They were built for living, working, and passing knowledge from one generation ...

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If you look upward at the exposed roof beams inside the “Japanese Heritage Shōya House”—which is what the Huntington Library in San Marino, Calif., calls this transplanted three-century-old Japanese ...