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Schematic cutaway of an Edo-period underground kōji chamber, showing a shaft descending through soil and a low passage leading to a buried room.

Built structures

Kōji-muro (Edo underground kōji chamber)

A source-bounded account of Edo’s subterranean kōji chambers: shafts led through narrow passages to low rooms cut into Kantō loam for cultivating kōji. Excavated examples vary by site.

Cellars, caves and ripening rooms
Yotsuya, Edo (modern Shinjuku, Tokyo)