Trending Samurai House Traditional Japanese House Layout / In extreme cases, the best part of a lot was given over to the garden, and like many traditional japanese homes, this house contains a square, open hearth (iriori), which was once the center of family life, providing heat, light. Tuttle company, rutland vermont and tokyo, japan, 1993. Samurai House Traditional Japanese House Layout / The house is organized into three volumes created around.